Will someone please think of the children?
So there was this story in the local news last week. It was "news" but at the same time didn't feel like news at all. Some minor variation of this story comes up in some Canadian city every few months. Here's the story, in brief. Young mom - local city-run pool - breastfeeding infant - told to go somewhere else by pool staff - mom refuses. This is where it gets interesting though. Pool staff, so threatened by the possibility of someone catching a mammary glimpse, calls the cops. You read that right: police were called to the scene. The police - and the manager of the pool - called it an unfortunate mistake. The calling of police that is, just to be clear. Where to begin. I consider myself about as smart as the average bear, capable of thinking to the edges of the box, if not outside it. Even so, I simply cannot understand how anyone has an issue with breastfeeding in public. I mean that, too. I'm not being melodramatic. I literally cannot fathom how off...