Maybe They Should be Forced to Offer Mastectomies, Too

Apparently it's not enough that Victoria's Secret sells bras. Certain lactating women believe the lingerie giant should be forced to permit them use of the store's dressing rooms as a baby-feeding depot, according to the Boston Herald.

A Quincy mother says she was humiliated when an employee of the lingerie franchise’s Faneuil Hall store flatly refused to allow her to breast-feed her daughter, directing her to a public restroom outside.

“I was upset. I was embarrassed. My heart was breaking for my daughter,” said Jessie Chandler, who ended up going home to feed her 9-month-old daughter, Charlotte. “I felt powerless to do anything.”

Powerless, but not so powerless that she wasn't able to drive home and feed her daughter. (Why she couldn't just feed the baby while seated comfortably in her car in the store's parking lot isn't clear.)

While Victoria's Secret apparently has in place an existing policy that permits breast feeding in its stores, according to Anne Merewood, director of the breast-feeding center at Boston Medical Center,

“If they’re going to make their money off of selling things for women’s breasts, they ought to recognize all aspects of the breast."

Anne's right. And since her workplace presumably makes money off of providing services for women's breasts -- examining and performing surgery on them -- I think the Boston Medical Center should also be compelled to "recognize all aspects of the breast" and start selling bras and nipple rings, and maybe some lotions, and nipple clamps, and lactation porn, and Juggs, and...