Why is breastfeeding in public okay, but urinating in public is not?

[Orrex]

Heck, we could even use drainage sewers and whatnot for the latter, so as not to create a health hazard resulting from accumulated standing output.

Both are natural functions, and neither is inherently sexual (well, any more than everything that a sexually-reproducing organism does is sexual).

Why this cruel double-standard?!?

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. Pissing in public is not the same as eating in public?

:shrug:

[Orrex]

3. Well, that covers the baby

But what about the shameless mom, publicly excreting liquids for all to see? Scandalous! Outrageous!

[Chan790]

5. It's all the same biological cycle.

Water in, water out. Urine is sterile so it's not a health concern. It must be those damned puritanical GOPers afraid of seeing something. Let's blame them...because frankly it's fun.

[MrCoffee]

2. Since when is it not ok to wizz in public?

i did not get that memo.

[Orrex]

4. Try it on your lunchbreak in view of a cop

And then you'll see what police-state hegemony is all about, let me tell you!

[skygazer]

6. Because pee stinks

And breast milk doesn't? :shrug:

[Orrex]

7. Hence the use of drainage sewers--problem solved!

And I'm not being exclusionary--males and females are equally welcome to let loose, of course!

[skygazer]

8. I don't know - I think it's a slippery slope

Next thing you know, someone will want to shit in public and that's just gross. :puke:

[Orrex]

9. Hmm. That would indeed be unpleasant

The new Dem Congress should take this up first thing. The GOP has been shitting all over the country for years, after all...

[swimboy]

10. Amsterdam makes allowance for this very thing.

I will try to get the pictures up before this thread is archived--so long as it doesn't get locked first.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. Here...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. its not a double standard...it applies to all genders,. races, age groups

sexual orientations, ethnicities.

[Orrex]

12. Perhaps I was unclear

Not a female:male double-standard, but a bodily-function:bodily-function double standard.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. yes but the functions are inherently different

getting rid of your bodies excretions is not similar to feeding your child.

[radwriter0555]

14. Because urine and feces are hazardous substances capable of causing

serious illness and disease.

Common sense.

[Phillycat]

16. Well.

Urine is not a hazardous substance. Urine is sterile. Feces is another story.

But of course breastfeeding is different from excreting waste from you body.

[Chan790]

17. Urine is sterile

in the cases of severe injuries it can be used as an antiseptic (though I don't recommend it) and you can drink your own to stay alive (up to 2x (and I don't recommend that either.))

[Call Me Wesley]

18. Locking.

Respectfully submitted,

Call Me Wesley
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