While it remains not uncommon for women breastfeeding their babies in public, even discreetly, to be asked to go someplace else or more fully enshroud themselves so that men who can’t control their ogling won’t be disturbed by the sight, even indirect, of a woman’s breasts, a visitor to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London found a particular irony when she was approached by a museum attendant.
“The staff member was friendly and polite, but obviously asking me to cover up was still intrusive, unpleasant and embarrassing for me, as well as obviously ludicrous.”
To make that point she tweeted several photos of museum pieces that feature women’s breasts, including one of herself standing in front of a statue of a woman breastfeeding a baby.
The museum management has since apologized.