Because breasts are sexualised

When I asked Karin why, when a woman breast feeds in a public place, do some people find it discomforting? Her immediate response was that “breasts are sexualised”!

The misrepresentation of numerous natural events, important natural events, in mainstream media, movies and so on, like childbirth, like bodily fluids, like menstruation, makes it more challenging than needs be, to talk about them. As much as things have improved in many ways, the path backward is not impossible, unless guarded against by everyone. Fascist ideologies penetrating less extreme right-wing groups is an example of the potential dangers that lie ahead as these ideologies contain principles of inequality for women, ethnic minorities and diverse sexualities.

Making these topics taboo, takes away the normalisation of them from the social mind. They become things to ...