{"id":134181,"date":"2017-08-11T07:20:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134181"},"modified":"2017-08-11T07:20:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:20:49","slug":"two-things-not-like-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/11\/two-things-not-like-others.html","title":{"rendered":"“Two of these things are not like the others”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>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<\/a> when she was approached by a museum attendant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

To make that point she tweeted several photos of museum pieces that feature women\u2019s breasts, including one of herself standing in front of a statue of a woman breastfeeding a baby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The museum management has since\u00a0apologized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading ““Two of these things are not like the others””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/museum-breastfeeding-tweet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6475,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/30\/journey_to_the.html","url_meta":{"origin":134181,"position":0},"title":"Journey to the Roof of the World","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Aug-04 8:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"(Still more reminiscing from Faerie ...) 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