"Think of the Children"

There are some letters to the editor of the Era Banner on a local story, we seem to still be a nation of prudes and control freaks.
Here was my reply.

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I had to chuckle (ok I laughed out loud) at people who try to hide behind shrieks of "think of the children" as was expressed in the letter to the editor over a mom trying to care for her kid's nutritional needs. To think that breastfeeding near pool water is more dangerous than the same kids swimming in the same water with the contents from the other end of the child's digestive system: well let's call it unscientific. Others who in their letters equate topless swimming with nudity, well check the dictionary.

More to the larger issue: people need to learn to control their authoritarian tendencies. Just because they hold a differing opinion on something is no reason to interfere and call in security in bullet proof vests. This was not harming anyone and it is very frankly none of their business and we have enough issues with real crimes without inventing them. Despite years of progress unfortunately women are still held to a more restrictive standard than men and that lack of equality should not be tolerated in a supposedly free society. Even more people dealing with the public should not be enforcing those double standards.