Milk does a body good...

Nothing my cousin does surprises me much. Born 8 months apart, she and I grew up together like sisters… sometimes sharing the same bed, clothes, and food (by choice). She and I were like two peas in a pod. Getting matching EVERYTHING. Unfortunately as I have written before, (here) our family kinda forced us into rivalry…which put her into competition mode…and thus beginning our 7 year long relationship haitus. In 2002, we set aside our differences, told our family to kiss off…and became thick as thieves once again. There have been questionable things that have happened within these last few years that I’ve shared with only my best friends about something she’s done or said. And they all agreed that many of those things she does/says is WIERD. RP, my ex fiancé/good friend thinks that my cousin really wants to have sex with me and if I ever give her the chance, she'd go for it. lol..
Actually, if I told you some of the things she’s done and weird conversations we’ve had, you might have to agree. I honestly think that if she wasn’t my cousin….i dunno…she might would try me. lol. Aaaanywho. I’m not quite sure how I got on this tangent…cuz it’s NOT my reason for writing … although I thought of her when I thought about this question. So…here goes.

One of my male coworkers just sent pics of his newborn baby via email to our department. We all went to my boss's desk (though we all had the pics) to view them b/c she was the first to open hers, and she was loud in expressing how CUTE the little baby boy was. Okay… There was one pic where my male co-worker’s wife was breast feeding. Normal right? We’ll I thought so. I guess I thought so because well…the aforementioned cousin breastfeeds in front of me…err and everyone else in the world with no hesitation. She has no problem whipping out a topper and ploppin it my baby cousin’s mouth. I mean yeah, the first time we were at Golden Buddha and she did that…I was like girl, WTH? Cover that ish up or something. Dang! But honestly, I’ve seen it from her so much…I’m desensitized. Now I’m wondering should I be. She does so many interesting things...that I don’t know what’s appropriate behavior and what’s not anymore. lol *smh*

Convo between my co-workers while viewing the breastfeeding pic...

AM- whoa! I’d be mad as hell if my husband sent this pic out.
VD- why? You can’t even see the nipple.
AM- so you need to see a nipple for it to be inappropriate.
VD- what’s inappropriate about breast feeding ? it’s natural.
RF- yeah, it’s natural alright. So is sex…but you don’t see me bringing pics of that do you?

Everybody laughs.

VD- okay…pics of you and Brian doggy style is not the same as seeing her breastfeeding her 3 day old baby.
AM- yeah, but still. Would you show a picture of your breast to someone? Even if your nipple is covered.
VD- well…I w
PT- *almost shouting…cuz that’s how she talks lol* I mean geez. c'mon! ya’ll acting like she is just shooting porn here… She’s feeding the freee-kin baybeh. She’s at home… and I’m sure Jay didn’t even realize we were gonna be ova here dicussing his wife’s tittie...geez. He was just caught up in the moment. Why ya’ll care. We all got titties. We’ve seen em before. Just go to the next damn picture.
AM- PT!!! okay…do you really gotta say tittie all loud
Everyone laughs.

Okay… question…Is breastfeeding in public…okay? Is it appropriate? Do you need to cover up?

Does seeing a breast with out seeing the nipple somehow void the fact that you really saw the breast ? Is it less....vulgar?


I really wanna know how you all feel about it.