Quote #126928
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard.
David Allen
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The remark frames public discomfort with breastfeeding as a problem of the observer rather than the nursing parent. By saying the offended person is “staring too hard,” it suggests that sexualization, prurient attention, or intrusive scrutiny—not the act of feeding a child—is what creates “offense.” The line functions as a concise defense of breastfeeding in public and a critique of social norms that police women’s bodies while treating a routine, nurturing act as indecent. Its blunt, humorous phrasing also works rhetorically to shift shame away from the mother and onto the onlooker’s gaze.



