No judgement feeding

Living in Chicago I see women on park benches, in malls, at coffee shops... breastfeeding. And most of these women are not showcasing their breasts and are very respectful of people around them.  They are just feeding their babies.  Forever now women have been shamed for breastfeeding in public and are called all sorts of names - gross, disgusting, vulgar, cheap, inappropriate...

This past weekend I went out to a bar for Halloween.  All sorts of costumes... Batman, Wonder Woman, Darth Wader... And then I saw this woman with no top on and pasties on her nipples.  Everyone one was ok with it.  No one was shaming her, calling her names, telling her to cover-up.  But a women that is conservatively feeding her baby is told that it is unacceptable and is shamed. Now I am not insinuating that the women at the bar should have been shamed. But is it a double standard and why?

Some people have argued the case of personal responsibility for actions you take. And that you have to keep everyone's rights in mind as well. One can't believe in everyone's right because the people that are advocates for breastfeeding or wanting to do it are part of everyone and you aren't defending their rights.  Advocating a moralistic view in that women or men that do things that you believe are not good are therefore cheap or bad or should suffer from some sort of consequence.  When in reality I believe to each their own view point and don't judge people for their choices. 

The law explicitly protects moms who breastfeed in public in almost all 50 states. Forty-seven states, DC and the Virgin Islands have laws that specifically allow moms to breastfeed in any public or private location. Two of the remaining states — South Dakota and Virginia — exempt breastfeeding moms from public indecency or nudity laws, and Idaho is the only state that has yet to pass any similar laws.