Comments on: Does 106.3 FM Support Breastfeeding Mothers?

By: Felicia

Felicia — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:54:47 +0000

I am in no way condoning what Lisa Rollins said but just wanted to point out that her position may not actually be as strong as it comes across in this clip. I live in Pickens, SC (about 45 minutes from Greenville) and talk radio is big around here. The format of this particular show is that the main host will launch off on a controversial topic, take an exaggerated position on it and the co-host will immediately take the opposite position and challenge him or her. The phone lines and e-mail in-boxes will be instantly flooded with people calling or writing to explain why one position or the other is wrong and . . . the station’s ratings go way up. The more controversial the topic, the better for them. It gets people listening. She probably won’t be asked to resign or apologize because she’s very good for their bottom line.

The last time I checked, the main host of this show was Russ Castle and Lisa is usually the co-host. A couple of years ago, Russ was talking about a group of women (in Maine I think?) who were pushing for the double standard for men’s and women’s indecent exposure to be abolished. Russ was making fun of this group. Lisa immediately jumped on him and started challenging him, asking why it was that a man could be shirtless in public and a woman couldn’t. Anyway, my point with that was simply that she may not be as anti public breastfeeding as she came across. Conversely, since Lonzo is a young father, he probably is fairly pro-breastfeeding but he may not hold the position as strongly as he came across either.

Also, a minor note to Joe, please understand that Lisa Rollins is not representative of all “family values” conservatives. I’m a pro-life, family values conservative myself, have lots of friends who are also and I can assure you this woman’s views are not typical of us.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:03:54 +0000

Thank you for transcribing her comments, I’ve linked back to your blog from mine.

Cheers. :)

http://eversoslightlydifferent.blogspot.com/2010/08/boobs-how-offensive.html

By: Dionna

Dionna — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:02:49 +0000

Elizabeth – the station manager has his own talk show, he invited the former head of the SC Coalition of BF’ing (I think that’s the name of the org) to talk. She spent about 10 minutes talking about how they got the state law protecting bf’ing passed, etc.
There has been no apology (to my knowledge) from Lisa. I emailed back and forth with a division manager from entercom, and he told me that no apology would be forthcoming because “she has a right to her opinion.”

By: Elizabeth E

Elizabeth E — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:57:50 +0000

Is there an update on what happened with this? I live in NC so I don’t get this station, but I am interested to hear what the radio station’s response was.

By: Melissa Cifarelli

Melissa Cifarelli — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:32:58 +0000

She keeps talking about how there should be a “LAW” against breast feeding in South Carolina, I wish I could meet this woman face to face (with nursing baby) and tell her that there actually used to be NO law to protect a baby’s right to eat & a mother’s right to nurse in South Carolina but because of people like her a group of women and mother’s in charleston changed all that! I was living there at the time and we all started with a nurse-in in front of victoria secret. They had refused to let a poor new mommy use their dressing room to feed her new baby so we had a nurse-in which turned into a huge campaign to change the laws in SC. Before that there was not a law banning breast feeding in public but there also was not one protecting breast feeding. SOOOOOO happy to have been part of something so amazing.

By: Life101

Life101 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:22:17 +0000

She either owes a SINCERE FULL APOLOGY ON AIR, equally as passionate in her troll like rant, or should be FIRED by management for such hateful remarks.

Seriously people, wake the f*** up!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:39:24 +0000

I like how these “family value” conservatives really don’t care about mothers and what is best for their baby.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:26:32 +0000

This is absolutely ignorant of this woman to say these things. I breastfed my son for the early part of his life. Unfortunately, I had to stop, but it was one of the most wonderful things I could have done for him. I wasn’t comfortable just pulling my boob out in public, but I always had a cover, which made me much more comfortable and it made it easier to go out in public and know I could breastfeed and not feel like everyone was watching. From what it sounds like, this woman DID have her breast fairly covered and wasn’t flashing her boobs around. She wasn’t standing on the table waving her arms shouting, “ATTENTION EVERYONE! I’M GOING TO BREASTFEED MY CHILD NOW! WATCH ME!” I think this woman is making a WAY bigger deal out of this than it actually was. Countless women out there do this every single day and I don’t know many who are disgusted by it. As for this lady’s solutions:
1. Who in the world wants to carry a bulky breastpump around?
2. In an “emergency” situation, you HAVE your food source ATTACHED to you!
3. Feed in the restroom on the toilet? Are you serious? Because THAT’S sanitary…
4. How is it bad manners to provide your child with food?

As for, “Well why didn’t she just feed the baby on the way there?” Gee, I don’t know, maybe because the baby WASN’T HUNGRY at that exact moment!? All breastfeeding mothers should just sit at home and be housebound? Well I guess a large portion of the world would become hermits. Breastfeeding is NOT a disease! It’s a feeding method AND a lifestyle.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:15:04 +0000

Watching someone eat a chicken sandwich might be disgusting.

By: MelissaN

MelissaN — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:23:04 +0000

Too bad she doesn’t know that breastfeeding laws are considered “decent exposure” laws – in order for there to be indecent exposure, there must be decent exposure. Breastfeeding is considered decent exposure.