Border State of Mind

I mean, what’s a sex organ? It’s not like there is some deity that decides what an organ’s purpose is and is and thus which organ can be shared in public. Laws (and more importantly, norms) are made by culture, not by science. So when people get all yelly about how women shouldn’t breast feed because boobs are “sex organs” and dudes aren’t waving their penises around in public, it would make equal sense to say “Women shouldn’t breastfeed in public because Shakespeare and Mark Twain weren’t contemporaries.” 

The argument makes literally no sense, and is (in my lingo) a hypothetheory (an untested argument that affirms the position of the arguer, so they never think to apply even the most rudimentary scrutiny.)

The reason some people have a hard time with public breast feeding is literally and only because their culture identifies nude breasts as taboo no matter the reason they are exposed. That’s the whole thing. That’s it. Every other argument is just someone trying to defend their worldview. Taboos are legitimate and every culture has them even if they’re rarely rational. 

This is an area where our culture has an internal disagreement about what should and should not be taboo. The real problem is that the taboo is being mostly enforced and upheld by the people who are in no way affected by it (men) to the detriment of those who are affected by it (mothers.)