WA restaurant responds perfectly after being called out for illegally shaming breastfeeding mom

A group of mothers held a “nurse-in” at a Washington restaurant in protest to the staff telling a nursing mom to cover up. Sydney Olsen was picking up a to-go order at Noah’s Ark restaurant in Bremerton with her 5-month-old son nursing, when the restaurant manager approached her and asked if she had a blanket she could cover herself with, King 5 News reports. Olsen wrote the manager told her that her nursing openly was making some men uncomfortable and had asked the staff to intervene. When the manager, Bianca, did so, Olsen told her it was her legal right to breastfeed in public.

Once Olsen informed Bianca she was within her legal rights and refused to cover up, the manager acknowledged she was right and walked away. But Olsen was still upset. “I felt disgusted, ashamed, embarrassed, humiliated, no longer hungry, I felt sick. My husband came to ask for a refund for me,” Olsen wrote on her Facebook page about the incident. “I will continue to nurse everywhere I go. I will not feel shame for feeding my child, this experience has taught me a lesson, that I need to continue to nurse everywhere I go, I need to continue to normalize breastfeeding, I need to continue to stand up for our rights, and I will.” She ended the post saying she plans to take legal action.
After Olsen’s post, the family-owned restaurant began receiving a torrent of phone calls from irate customers.

Noah’s Ark responded by apologizing and promising to not only participate in the nurse-in, but offered free milkshakes to the first 50 mothers who showed up. “Although we can’t turn back time and change what transpired, we are hopeful that our efforts to right this situation reflects our apology to all that were affected,” restaurant staffers wrote on the establishment’s Facebook page. That seems to have appeased the restaurant’s customer base. “We, as HUMANS, learn by making mistakes. No need to beat a dead horse at this point,” wrote Heather Hooper on the restaurant’s Facebook post. “Breastfeeding is normal. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, people are uneducated and this is a perfect learning example. Moving forward….”


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/wa-restaurant-responds-perfectly-after-being-called-out-for-illegally-shaming-breastfeeding-mom/

Quite happy to get her baps out when people are eating their dinner but suddenly
“I felt disgusted, ashamed, embarrassed, humiliated, no longer hungry, I felt sick. My husband came to ask for a refund for me,”

Yeah right, she should have just used a shawl etc and no one would have noticed

Was she making a mountain out of a molehill? nudge nudge.

Nems wrote:Quite happy to get her baps out when people are eating their dinner but suddenly
“I felt disgusted, ashamed, embarrassed, humiliated, no longer hungry, I felt sick. My husband came to ask for a refund for me,”

Yeah right,  she should have just used a shawl etc and no one would have noticed

Yes in a throw back to victorian society should she need to cover up her breast.
I guess you have never had the management of a restaurant walk up to you having no right to do so and tell you to cover up.
Why is it people like you are so backward in your thinking?
She was feeing her baby. You do not get to decided when your baby feeds, the baby does, which surely you must know being a mother.
Its is a outof touch view formed that thinks exposed breasts are in some way lewd, all stemming of course in the west from Christian morality..

You cannot see she has done nothing wrong and instead seek to blame her.
How about instead of being ruled in your train of thought that has been developed by backward beliefs. You break free of them and see that there is nothing lewd about a mother feeding her child.

I am glad to see people take a stand against such discrmination.

nicko wrote:Was she making a mountain out of a molehill?  nudge nudge.

Cuchulain wrote:

Nems wrote:Quite happy to get her baps out when people are eating their dinner but suddenly
“I felt disgusted, ashamed, embarrassed, humiliated, no longer hungry, I felt sick. My husband came to ask for a refund for me,”

Yeah right,  she should have just used a shawl etc and no one would have noticed

Yes in a throw back to victorian society should she need to cover up her breast.
I guess you have never had the management of a restaurant walk up to you having no right to do so and tell you to cover up.
Why is it people like you are so backward in your thinking?
She was feeing her baby. You do not get to decided when your baby feeds, the baby does, which surely you must know being a mother.
Its is a outof touch view formed that thinks exposed breasts are in some way lewd, all stemming of course in the west from Christian morality..

You cannot see she has done nothing wrong and instead seek to blame her.
How about instead of being ruled in your train of thought that has been developed by backward beliefs. You break free of them and see that there is nothing lewd about a mother feeding her child.

I am glad to see people take a stand against such discrmination.

I bet you are

Nems wrote:

Cuchulain wrote:

Yes in a throw back to victorian society should she need to cover up her breast.
I guess you have never had the management of a restaurant walk up to you having no right to do so and tell you to cover up.
Why is it people like you are so backward in your thinking?
She was feeing her baby. You do not get to decided when your baby feeds, the baby does, which surely you must know being a mother.
Its is a outof touch view formed that thinks exposed breasts are in some way lewd, all stemming of course in the west from Christian morality..

You cannot see she has done nothing wrong and instead seek to blame her.
How about instead of being ruled in your train of thought that has been developed by backward beliefs. You break free of them and see that there is nothing lewd about a mother feeding her child.

I am glad to see people take a stand against such discrmination.

I bet you are

Of course I am vert pleased people take a stand against regressives like yourself.

Cuchulain wrote:

Nems wrote:

I bet you are

Of course I am vert pleased people take a stand against regressives like yourself.

Of course, nothing to do with, unless you carry a mirror everywhere, it's the only chance you get to see a tit.

Nems wrote:

Cuchulain wrote:



Of course I am vert pleased people take a stand against regressives like yourself.

Of course, nothing to do with, unless you carry a mirror everywhere, it's the only chance you get to see a tit.

Ahhhhh poor little Nems is upset lol
So we have gone from talking about the fact you hold outdated views born from poor Christian morality formed in Victorian times to now offering me woeful insults.
That is the problem with regressives like yourself Nems, when faced with the facts you show your true ugliness.

Cuchulain wrote:

Nems wrote:

Of course, nothing to do with, unless you carry a mirror everywhere, it's the only chance you get to see a tit.

Ahhhhh poor little Nems is upset lol
So we have gone from talking about the fact you hold outdated views born from poor Christian morality formed in Victorian times to now offering me woeful insults.
That is the problem with regressives like yourself Nems, when faced with the facts you show your true ugliness.

No sense of humour what so ever
Tit

Nems wrote:

Cuchulain wrote:



Ahhhhh poor little Nems is upset lol
So we have gone from talking about the fact you hold outdated views born from poor Christian morality formed in Victorian times to now offering me woeful insults.
That is the problem with regressives like yourself Nems, when faced with the facts you show your true ugliness.

No sense of humour what so ever
Tit

It was not funny as it was meant with intent. But little things do please little minds as they say Nems.
This is what I mean about regressive people. They are angry and how the world is changing for the better for groups of people. You state here for woman to cover up, when she has no need to.
That makes you a regressive.

Cuchulain wrote:

Nems wrote:


No sense of humour what so ever
Tit

It was not funny as it was meant with intent. But little things do please little minds as they say Nems.
This is what I mean about regressive people. They are angry and how the world is changing for the better for groups of people. You state here for woman to cover up, when she has no need to.
That makes you a regressive.

Of course it was said with intent!
The truth of it makes it funny.

You are the most humourless individual in my opinion

Nems wrote:

Cuchulain wrote:


It was not funny as it was meant with intent. But little things do please little minds as they say Nems.
This is what I mean about regressive people. They are angry and how the world is changing for the better for groups of people. You state here for woman to cover up, when she has no need to.
That makes you a regressive.

Of course it was said with intent!
The truth of it makes it funny.

You are the most humourless individual  in my opinion

So I am supposed to laugh at where you admit its intent was to insult lol
Talk abouta regressives logic is so screwed up ha ha ha ha.
You see this is what you always do Nems.
Get your knickers utterly creamed in a debate, which I am sure is the first time in a long time you have had your muffin buttered, you resort to turning the debate into your level of maturity.
Thatof a two year old.
I am happy with that.

Cuchulain wrote:

Nems wrote:

Of course it was said with intent!
The truth of it makes it funny.

You are the most humourless individual  in my opinion

So I am supposed to laugh at where you admit its intent was to insult lol
Talk abouta regressives logic is so screwed up ha ha ha ha.
You see this is what you always do Nems.
Get your knickers utterly creamed in a debate, which I am sure is the first time in a long time you have had your muffin buttered, you resort to turning the debate into your level of maturity.
Thatof a two year old.
I am happy with that.

Oh so now we did debate!?

Make your mind up dodge

Nems wrote:

Cuchulain wrote:





So I am supposed to laugh at where you admit its intent was to insult lol
Talk abouta regressives logic is so screwed up ha ha ha ha.
You see this is what you always do Nems.
Get your knickers utterly creamed in a debate, which I am sure is the first time in a long time you have had your muffin buttered, you resort to turning the debate into your level of maturity.
Thatof a two year old.
I am happy with that.

Oh so now we did debate!?

Make your mind up dodge

Well the debate was over before it started, you wrote gibberish.
I showed your view was backward and regressive and you then turn to being an immature child again.