Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
A couple of years ago, I wrote an article about the City of Toronto’s breastfeeding-friendly restaurant campaign. I talked to several restaurant owners, most of who happened to be men, about breastfeeding in public.
They were all – yes, all – quite positive about having women breastfeed in their businesses. Most of them did not think the campaign, which involved sending breastfeeding-friendly decals to every restaurant in Toronto, mattered one bit.
Long before they had a sticker on their door that said so, they told me, women breastfeed in their restaurants. Moms dinned while babies BTOB (brought their own breast). Sorry.
One owner told me, “It’s the most natural thing in the world, why would anyone have a problem with it?”
Why indeed.
