Latte and Lactation? Of course.
The Washington Post covers Starbucks Coffee's ridiculous policy forbidding breast-feeding in their stores, as well as Lorig Charkoudian's brilliant response campaign. Charkoudian is well known and loved in the Baltimore area as founder of Baltimore's excellent Community Mediation Program.
I suspect Starbucks has lost this battle nationally--they just don't know it yet. (Starbucks doesn't have a leg to stand on in Maryland, as a matter of law, which they acknowledge in the article.) Starbucks should drop this policy.
The fact that some customers share their discomfort with the human form and are intolerant of the sight of a woman nurturing a child is irrelevant--I mean, I find corporate chain coffeeshops offensive, but Starbucks ain't offering to close up shop.
I suspect Starbucks has lost this battle nationally--they just don't know it yet. (Starbucks doesn't have a leg to stand on in Maryland, as a matter of law, which they acknowledge in the article.) Starbucks should drop this policy.
The fact that some customers share their discomfort with the human form and are intolerant of the sight of a woman nurturing a child is irrelevant--I mean, I find corporate chain coffeeshops offensive, but Starbucks ain't offering to close up shop.
posted by The Malcontent at 11:25 AM
1 Comments:
Hooray for Boobies! And babies! And boobies and babies doing their thing!
And, just a P.S. to irk the caffeine slave in the Malcontent- we wouldn't even have this problem if y'all weren't so dependent on that legal drug. I doubt anyone would have a problem with a woman breastfeeding where I get MY drug of choice.
Anonymous co-worker
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