Cancel surf culture.
Welcome to America, where it’s OK to festoon the pages of surf magazines and surf-centric Instagram feeds with high-res images of breasts, but it’s not OK for a mother to nurse her baby while participating in the surf act itself.
The popular account Kook of the Day recently posted a video of an empowered mother breastfeeding on a wave and what should have been a moment celebrating the whole of the female experience quickly devolved into the very worst displays of toxic masculinity.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B82fZjxBDT8/
Comments dripping with less-than-woke misogyny began appearing right away.
bchip19: Call child protective services. So fucking irresponsible. One false move and it’s disaster.
matt_meistrell: Dumb people do dumb shit!
jonnysurfstyle: Jesus!!!! You kidding me??????? She goes down that babies gone!!!!! Stupid stupid women!!!! This annoys the fuck out of me!!!!! Even stupidity knows its limits and I am stupidity!!!!
Etc.
And it’s shameful that we still need to be having this conversation in 2020. Breastfeeding moms are not brash, unrepentant exhibitionists. Few to none of them are trying to show off their breasts to unwilling participants. Yes, some of us have fully evolved beyond the twisted hypocrisy of a culture that says a billboard of a lingerie-clad boob is A-OK while an uncovered nursing infant is offensive.
I can only hope and trust that her child did not its first experience of the life-determining effects of American society’s gender binary, swaddled in either pink or blue. Moments out of the womb and before even receiving its name being wrapped in gender. I can only hope and trust they will not be destroyed by the blitzkrieg of gender-norming as they grow.
In the meantime, may this mother’s brave display of her complete personhood be a beacon for us all.
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this is beautiful. What’s the problem right!? Lots of people need to get fucked in this shitehole we call civilization.
Clearly not a real baby
Skills…. obviously!
FYI…she is still pregnant …. and that’s NOT a real baby in her arms…LMAO
A dude would do the same thing with a new born and be as stupid and deserved to be called a kook. It’s not because she is a women, it’s because its dumb.
It’s a doll
Don’t get your knickers in a knot kookslams, 67.4% of newborns float, do your research!
She looks similar to but better than many of the 50 year old oompa loompa men stuffed into wetsuits at my local. Same gut . Same man-boobs.
Inclusivity ! ^vote !
Ok that’s your one “blitzkrieg” for the month. March 1st, mark it.
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Does that count as surfing if it’s basically wakeboarding?
Oh shit. I’m being exclusionist aren’t I.
wokeboarding
Brings a new meaning to ‘nursing turns’.
Hey, wet nurses need waves too.
Get a hurleyurley sticker on that board
Turpel: “Checking all the boxes, speed, power and flow. Over to you ’89 World Champ.”
Pottz: “The higher ranked you are, the more buttermilk you have on your head”
It looks like a doll
But even if real
What’s the problem ?
Even if she dropped it
Babies float…
That’s obviously not a living breathing baby.
More likely an attempt to bond via surf spirit love with her freshly aborted child.
Is that anymore offensive?
Throwing the misuses down the stairs is so old hat. These days ya get her chuck herself into the wake of a boat doing 30 knots!
But who will put you in the sin bin?
Sinbad?
https://images.app.goo.gl/7…
We all are stupidity!!!!!!!!
Only heteronormative men.
oh #notallmen then! phew
So you cherry pick comments from a few ignorant people, and this is supposed to be an illustration of widespread “toxic masculinity”? Oh noes, Chicken Little… the sky is falling!
You need to woke up.
Thank you for your concern, amigo, but becoming “woke” is the least of my needs.
One day we shall sit down over a drink and discuss the human condition, however. I’m sure of it!
Oh hi, you must be new here. Welcome to Beach Grit. We’re a diverse, warm, and welcoming community of go fuck yourself. We’re having a potluck at Chas’s house on Tuesday.
I don’t think Chas smokes pot.
He hasn’t tried my recipe for Swedish Cheeba yet. See ya Tuesday, donk!
Shall I bring the Stand Up Potato salad?
Or my famous Mid-Length cocktail sausages?
“and in the morning , I’m makin’ waffles!”
the donkey, Shrek, & you’re welcome!
I have no idea what this means but I will upvote you out of the sheer love of the approaching apocalypse.
Not too sure Chas rolls that way. Keep your sausage to yourself, he has kids.
That’s peak murferhood … so woke, it’s unreal.
Punk’d
As mentioned, she is pregnant with a newborn?
Stop defining her experience.
Chas how do you square this outrageous! mockery with your ‘let longboarders longboard’ equality advocacy?
Longboards are evil.
Worse than mid lengths?