The Stephen Gately thing was dire. She basically made out that he died because he was gay and all gay men take part in drugs and bizarre sex acts. She's a horrible woman

I honestly don't think I just read that...

did I?

I don't like Jan Moir's writing style at all. But I do think if you battle through the inflammatory stuff, her point is valid on this one.

The mother she refers to shouldn't use the changing room for feeding, at least not without asking first. It's not like it's a 2 minute job, and charity shops rarely have more than one changing room. Average feeding times are what - 30-60 minutes? I can understand him checking if it had been occupied for even half of that, an old dear might have died in there or something! She clearly knew it was wrong, else why be sneaky about it?

Most places will try to accommodate or suggest somewhere suitable if you explain the situation. I'm all for mothers to be able to breastfeed when they need to, but most use a bit more common sense than this lady in choosing where to do it! I have to say, that given the circumstances, I'm surprised at the amount of support this lady has received.

It's a shame Jan Moir can't seem to get her point across without being so offensive.

I don't know what circumstances led her to go to the changing room in the charity shop (was she in there anyway or went in there specifically to find a place to breastfeed?). Either way, it's not out of order to question the man who snooped on her in the changing room, even if she was in there for an extended period of time. He should have used his vocal chords and stood outside the door and talked to her, rather than barging in. It definitely could have been settled in another way... I personally wouldn't feel the need to go hunt down a lone changing room anywhere to feed anyway as I feel comfortable doing so wherever I am, lol

One thing I disagree with strongly is the comparison made between going to the toilet and breastfeeding. It's an outrageously inaccurate comparison and insulting to boot. If people think feeding a baby and taking a piss fall into the same category, then I would invite them to take their next plate of food into the toilet and eat it there, and see how similar the comparison feels then! Oh wells, inflammatory articles like this are best left avoided.

As for her other associations thrown in with breastfeeding, like the ramming strollers and whatnot...she's just tossing those in to add to the underpinning ''feeling of wrongness'' in the article so that feeling will carry over to the breastfeeding issue.

Actually, by the time your baby is 10 months old a feed rarely lasts longer than 10 mins. Blythe is 6 months and rarely takes longer than 5 mins when we're out and about.

I could only read half of the article as I was getting myself in a tiddle!
Abhorrent sums her up.

stupid woman

Well if idiots like her didn't speed up to get in front of the pram and then slow down when they had done so they wouldn't get rammed with a pushchair. Judging from this article and other articles I have read she is the one guilty of behaving as if normal rules of polite society don't apply

She was actually in there trying on clothes. Silly woman needs to do more research

urination is beautiful?? well I never

I say mass breast-feed-in at her desk

I pity this poor, lonely, obviously childless, mentally and intellectually challenged, attention seeking, fat, ugly, wrinkly old later.

When I first saw you on first tri hun I saw your username and thought 'oh
blimey, we might not get on'... I now see the error of my ways.

Oh my god, that woman is a disgrace. When I breastfeed I doubt people would even realise I am doing it as I am completely discreet and cause no offense to anybody. I can't believe she compares it to urination.