Reply #438: Yes, that's an aspect with American culture I cannot understand. [View All]

[KitSileya]

As don't most Europeans, I suspect. I remember an acquaintance telling me about an incident that happened while she spent a year as an au pair. She'd brought the kids she looked after to the beach, and had let the toddler, (who was closer to three than two, so he was in the process of being potty trained,) play in the sand by the blanket without his diaper, and she'd ended up escorted off the beach even tho' she offered to put on the diaper when the lifeguards objected. For most of us Europeans, that kind of reaction is not only over the top, it's actually kind of sick. The sexualization of small children and natural processes such as breastfeeding is sick. As is the reactions of some of the posters on this thread. It's obvious they have a very psychologically troubled attitude towards bodies and natural functions. That they are offended by something they would have to seek out deliberately (for example, they would have had to either crane their necks backwards, or semi-stood to get a view of the breastfeeding) is a typical puritan reaction.