… no buts! 😉

It is perfectly normal and should be encouraged and supported.

Unless that is you are BBC Radio Solent DJ Alex Dyke who said on-air:

Couldn’t mums just stay at home and do it? I’m not offended by it, I’m just made to feel uncomfortable about it.

You wouldn’t get ‘yummy mummies’… breastfeeding in public. Those kind of women wouldn’t do it because they’re very image-conscious and they know it’s not a great look.

I blame the Earth mothers, you know the ones I mean, the ones with the moustaches, the ones who work in libraries, the ones who wear hessian, the ones they’re always on Radio 4 on Women’s Hour, they are always pushing the boundaries and making us feel uncomfortable.

Breastfeeding is unnatural. It’s the kind of thing that should be done in a quiet, private nursery.

It was ok in the Stone Age when we knew no better, when people didn’t have their own teeth… but now I just think a public area is not the place for it and fellas don’t like it.

Adding that all men were repelled by the act unless they were “wimps who are scared of their wives” and that “formula milk is just as good”

Before attempting to wheel back a bit by saying:

“My point was fat chavvy mums with their boobs out on buses isn’t a good look. A classy discreet mum is absolutely fine.”

😯

Wow!

Coverage from a selection on news outlets of varying sanctimony here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33904758
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/13/bbc-removes-recording-of-dj-saying-breastfeeding-in-public-must-stop-alex-dyke
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11800793/BBC-under-fire-over-moustached-women-breastfeeding-jibes.html
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-08-13/thousands-call-for-bbc-dj-to-be-dropped-after-he-labels-breastfeeding-in-public-unnatural-and-embarrassing/

Anyone prepared to agree with this massive arse him on this?

(Sadly quite a few of the Telegraph readers are judging by the comments)

What a ****

The bloke’s a shithead.

I suspect My Dyke might be looking for new work sooner rather than later. To be fair if you were going to come out with that stuff BBC Radio Solent would be the place to do it – with a bit of luck the mobile one of your listeners has just gone to the bog and the other might not have been wheeled out into the lounger of their retirement home by the time he is on air.

I’ve been reading the comments section in the telegraph article… 😯
Bad idea…

What a douche.

Disgusting…

what a scuse the pun tit

Radio Solent ?

#rubbishradio

It is just the radio equivalent of clickbait.

Sounds like a male Katie Hopkins – just saying stuff for “shock value”

Are we totally sure this wasn’t on Radio Norwich by a DJ named Partridge?

* catches self reading it back in an Alan Partridge voice *

You might be on to something there!

and that “formula milk is just as good”

That’s nonsense and untrue. The bloke’s a fool.

I like just how wrong he got that, it’s an absolute masterpiece.

and that “formula milk is just as good”
That’s nonsense and untrue. The bloke’s a fool.

Sort of a moot point in this discussion but actually it’s neither nonsense or untrue.

I was speed reading, have I missed something?

What a complete moron.

I appear to have logged into Mumsnet by mistake…

YANBU

It is just the radio equivalent of clickbait.

Exactly.

The bloke’s an arse but between two consenting adults…

Radio Solent is the daily mail or BBC local radio, most auwful sensationalist rubbish going. I think it say a lot about the people living down here in the south that it gets voted for so many awards.

I know, I should give it up now I am over 40…….

I was speed reading, have I missed something?

Blummin’ wimminz! Can’t pay attention properly!

😉

Still loving it with the Mrs at the age of 49 and 3/4… Well, not exactly breastfeeding, but you know what I mean 😀

CaptainFlashheart – Member
I was speed reading, have I missed something?
Blummin’ wimminz! Can’t pay attention properly!

Too busy, obviously, bless ’em… 😀

Sure it’s not Radio Solvent, you know what inhaling too much of that stuff does to your brain…

Breast feeding in public is ok but only for the fit girls. I don’t want to see any floppy tits in a restaurant it puts me right off my dinner 🙁

Have you been watching grannies breastfeeding in restaurants ?

Has he got shares in Nestle?

Apparently he has been suspended so if it was Radio Clickbait (Dialbait?) then it hasn’t ended well for him.