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.

The statement is that she is an entitled privileged woman who ignores what the host is wanting to do.

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.

I can agree with that. Even if it didn’t explicitly state no children, it was described to her as:

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…

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

I’m not an “older feminist” however that doesn’t mean I think every meeting/space should include children. It’s ok to have adult only events, the fact that the topic of the conference is women’s empowerment doesn’t change that. I don’t understand this attitude some people seem to have that they can bring their…