So this is West Branch. Tolerant West Branch.
“Breasts are not shameful nor dangerous” reads the sign. In local news, there’s a dustup in West Branch, just a few miles down the road from Iowa City. A woman was in a West Branch restaurant on July 3rd and began to breastfeed her baby. The waitress and then the owner of the restaurant told the woman, who was with her family, to get the hell out of dodge.
Well, yesterday there was a protest in front of the restaurant. Women breastfed their babies. The local yahoos drove by and told the women to “Go back to Iowa City” and “Show us your breasts.”
You can read more about it in the Press-Citizen article here. You’ll note an interesting detail later in the story: the “restaurant” in question, which wouldn’t allow a woman to breastfeed, had held wet t-shirt contests in the past. The hypocrisy is what got people especially riled up; here was a place of business ready to exploit and demean women. Enough said.
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