omg, I haven't laughed so much in a long time.
Dread, you really are TOO much.
oddly enough, when I left this thread yesterday afternoon to go home, I hopped on the cramped little green bus and ended up sitting next to a woman with her baby. When I say sitting beside I actually mean squished against, because they pack people into these buses so tightly in order to maximize profits (who said Africans don't know anything about business?
) Just as soon as we pulled out, the baby started crying. The mother started pulled out her breast and started feeding him right away. We were so close, the top of the baby's head was pushing against MY breast. And I had to chuckle to myself because this is so totally
normal here while it is obvious that this is not the case in the so-called
civilized and
advanced world. In my world, women breastfeed children all the time, everywhere. And no one stares at them or even tries to avoid looking at them. It's considered a normal, natural part of life. Men don't commit rape on the spot. In fact, half an hour ago (on the same bus route) I saw a man and a nursing mother conversing and laughing together, obviously neither of them discomfited by the fact that her baby was being fed.
It seems a bit odd to me that in a country like the USA where people dress MUCH less conservatively and supposedly have open and tolerant morals, this conversation would even come up.