Better watch out, Kim Kardashian (who's been known to fire out nasty little Tweets when she sees a mother breastfeeding in public). For that matter, any business out there having a problem with public breastfeeding had better watch out. That's because there's a new vigilante in town looking to protect "the right to breastfeed in public" -- and it comes with a huge boob affixed to the top of it!"The Milk Truck" is the brainchild of one Jill Miller, an artist and teacher at (appropriately enough) Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The idea is still in development, but Miller has reportedly raised almost half of the $10,000 that it will take to get "The Milk Truck" and its giant headlight(s) afloat.
Pledges to the cause have come through a website called Kickstarter.com. When the ride comes to full fruition, it will be "an ice cream truck with a giant breast on the roof."
The idea from there is rather simple: If a breastfeeding mother is getting hassled out in public, she need only call "The Milk Truck." It will then race to the location and park right outside the business. Then the driver will make a big production of it, "laying down a rug [and] setting up chairs under an awning on the side of the truck."
Meantime mama is free, if she wishes, to sit right down under the awning and start nursing "in an environment of support." Says Miller: "Thought the nursing mother created a spectacle? Meet The Milk Truck!"
Or put another way (as stated by the linked IVillage.com story): "If you think a nursing mama catches some attention, wait til a giant, nipple-topped van cruises your 'hood. There's not a nursing cover in town big enough to hide a boob like that!"
And another consideration: Do you really want to be the jackass restaurant owner who creates a media field day by having The Milk Truck show up at your joint? Put another way, the biggest help to breastfeeding mothers from The Milk Truck may just be its effect as a deterrent against lactation discrimination (an issue not exactly at the top of the list of political concerns of the leftist 20 percenters and republic partisans). Just what the knockers ordered, if you ask me.
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