Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Biting the Hand That Feeds You (Palm Beach Post)

OK, well maybe not the hand

Victoria’s Secret became the target of breast-feeding activists this week after a women in Racine, Wis., and Quincy, Mass., went into the popular women’s lingerie store and were told they couldn’t breastfeed their children on the sales floor.

It’s hard to imagine that Victoria’s Secret, of all places, could be anti-breast — or at least squeamish about the partial exposure of a woman’s breast amid the racks of revealing peekaboo attire on sale.

But it happened. The result: Victoria’s Secret was the target of a nationwide “nurse-in” protest this past weekend called for by a group of angry breastfeeding women.



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