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A “family values” GOP lawmaker has spoken out against public breastfeeding in a truly vulgar, creepy way. On Facebook, New Hampshire state Rep. Josh Moore (R) said that if a law banning women from exposing their breasts didn’t go through, he should have a free pass to grab their nipples.
Moore made the comment in response to a proposed law that would make women exposing their breasts in public illegal. Under current New Hampshire laws, both men and women are allowed to be publicly topless – but Republican men are trying to challenge this with the new anti-breast legislation.
Under the new law, a woman would get a misdemeanor charge if she “purposely exposes the areola or nipple of her breast or breasts in a public place and in the presence of another person with reckless disregard for whether a reasonable person would be offended or alarmed by such act.” The proposed law does exempt breastfeeding women; however opponents of the legislation believe that women shouldn’t be charged when men are still allowed to go topless.
In response to the sexist bill, New Hampshire State Rep. Amanda Bouldin (D) went on Facebook and called out her Republican colleagues, stating that the bill was a contradiction to the Republican party’s “smaller government” principles and betrayed the “freedom” and “limited government” the party praises. In her open letter to Republicans, Bouldin wrote:
“The very least you could do, is protect a mother’s right to FEED her child.”
Moore stepped in right away, and unintentionally proved Bouldin’s point about the party’s misogyny in trying to police women’s bodies with this bill:
Moore wrote that if a woman wanted to “pull her nipple out in public,” men (like him) should be able to “grab it.”:
“Who doesn’t support a mothers right to feed? Don’t give me the liberal talking points Amanda. If it’s a woman’s natural inclination to pull her nipple out in public and you support that, than you should have no problem with a mans [inclination] to stare at it and grab it. After all, it’s ALL relative and natural, right?”
This disgusting post was of course deleted, but not before Slate archived and publicized it. It should be known that on his social media accounts, Moore described himself as a “pro-family” lawmaker who “love God, Country, guns and family.” Moore also said that he had “more respect for a woman and her innocence and decency” than those in support for public breastfeeding.
When there’s one misogynist, there’s always more. When Bouldin replied to Moore that “My nipple isn’t my innocence. By the time I had cause to whip it out in public (WHEN FEEDING MY CHILD) I was certainly no longer a virgin,” state Rep. Al Baldasaro (R) backed Moore up and added his own sexist views to the conversation. He wrote:
“Amanda, No disrespect, but your nipple would be the last one I would want to see. You want to turn our family beach’s into a pervert show. Liberterians want a nude beach, put your money together and buy one, if you want to expose you kids to nudity, go for it. Some of us liberty minded Reps do believe in family values.”
nah no aggression against women just mean spirited knuckle dragging rhetoric from chauvinistic republicans someone needs to ask if his mother ever breast fed him in public or is his insensitivity because she didn't, are there suppressed mommy issues there?????????????????
