Je disais récemment tout le mal que je pensais de Borat, en soulignant l’immense gentillesse de (la plupart) des Américains.
Je ne m’habitue jamais pour autant à certains de leurs côtés arriérés/puritains d’un autre siècle.
Un article récent de USAT me donnait encore l’occasion de sauter de mon fauteuil d’incompréhension.
Emily Gillette, her husband, Brad; and their then 22-month-old daughter, River, were removed from an Oct. 13 flight from Burlington, Vt., to New York after a flight attendant asked Gillette to cover up while she was breast-feeding the girl.
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Gillette took the window seat in the second-to-last row, she says, and her husband took the aisle. She began nursing River, using one hand to hold her shirt closed. She says: « I was not exposed. »
But the flight attendant approached, tried to hand her a blanket and asked her to cover herself, she recalls. « You’re offending me, » Gillette quotes the woman as saying.
« I’m not doing anything wrong and I will not cover up, » Gillette says she said in response.
The flight attendant walked away, Gillette says, and a few minutes later, a ticket agent boarded and said the flight attendant had ordered them removed.
The airline arranged for a hotel for the family for the night and a flight with a different airline the next morning, but Gillette wasn’t satisfied.
« No woman should ever be ashamed of breast-feeding, » she says. She wants « both airlines to create policies that protect a woman from being harassed for feeding her child on an airplane. »
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Depuis, forcément, procès et manifestations.
Les bras m’en tombent qu’on puisse être choqué.
Quoi de plus beau, de plus naturel, de plus sain, de moins choquant, qu’une femme qui allaite son enfant !
Ils ont quand même encore de gros problèmes à régler ces Américains.
Comment on fait pour mettre toute une nation sur un divan ?
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