Not only that, but it doesn’t seem like she exhausted her options. There was literally no way she could pump and leave a supply with the sitter she clearly can afford to hire and bring to a conference with her? This is clearly an educated, well off woman that actually HAS options other than bringing her child with…

AND FEMINISM DOES NOT MEAN WOMEN CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT ALL THE GODDAMN TIME.

Exactly. I agree that the childcare situation in this country is sad and we need better options for working-class women. I even agree that employers should be flexible about children in the workplace in emergency situations.

Basically, this. This piece reeks of entitlement. How many people were at this conference? Do all of them, or some of them, or even two of them have to be more uncomfortable because of your child?

I don’t know. And I get that day care is expensive and we need to fix that. But that doesn’t give parents a carte blanche to just bring their babies around wherever they want. The other day the aesthetician that was doing my waxing had her toddler in the room across the hall; he kept crying and at one point she had to…

For me it comes down to one point: Did the author specifically ask whether she could bring the baby? If she did, then sentencing her to a breastfeeding room without warning is a jerk move on the part of the organizer, no question.

This is my reaction as well. My problem with bringing infants into the workplace is due solely to noise. Babies make noise: happy noise, upset noise, healthy baby noise. Why am I a bad feminist if I can’t concentrate around this and ask that it not be in my workspace?

I don’t have kids yet. Let’s get that out of the way. While reading this article I kept noticing how the author kept mentioning how quiet her baby was. That’s great, -if it’s true. But let’s not forget that we all tend to be biased towards our own. People never think their dogs will bite someone, or that their kids…

I agree, but it’s the not-so-self-aware moms that ruin it for everyone.

New parents can be a special kind of entitled. It’s funny.

I agree with you. I have a friend who is hoping to do as the writer and wear her baby to work and I just don’t think it’s going to work out. It would kill my concentration if I was her labmate. Infants sleep a lot but when they are not sleeping they take attention. And things that can sound like happy baby noises to…

Look, I love babies. I like moms (some of them). But if I was invited to speak in from of hundreds of people, do a book signing, and participate in an intense professional conference, I’d arrange for child care for the day. No, you can’t bring your baby to work, sorry. That includes adjunct teaching. Advocate for…

Men can be sexually assaulted, too.

Actually, despite male rape being an MRA talking point, feminists were the first champions of the issue of male rape. A man can absolutely be raped by a woman and arousal doesn’t equal consent.

Not necessarily, and this is a pretty classist/elitist way of viewing people who work at one of America’s largest employers.

You know, there is some chance that Rihanna doesn’t have the full, sordid details of the Rachel Dolezal situation. I’m not sure her comments are intended as a full accounting of the situation — it’s just that Rihanna, who is black, is saying, “Who wouldn’t want to be black? It is awesome I love it,” which is a totally…

As an infertile, I give her props for keeping it real. This whole Mother Earth, every time I puke it is awesome narrative only hurts women.

I don’t like her, but I don’t see a problem with her comment. Just because some women can’t carry a pregnancy doesn’t mean that she can’t comment on how miserable she has been during this pregnancy. It’s not all sunshine and roses for every woman, and she shouldn’t act like it is just because she was able to get…

Whoa whoa whoa I’m sorry I have no idea who you are so I was not trying to identify you with anything.

Ever consider that you’re kind of a dick?