Carrie Bickmore just set a male radio star straight in the best possible way.
The Project host Carrie Bickmore gave birth to her daughter Evie in March, so she’s no stranger to breastfeeding.
Last night on air, Gold Logie award winning mum-of-two proudly defended public breastfeeding — in a smack down that has mothers around the country cheering.
Bickmore, 34, took on veteran radio host Steve Price, 60, over a tweet he sent after seeing a woman breastfeeding in an airport terminal.
Price — a 2GB host with two daughters of his own — tweeted earlier this week: “Discreet public breast feeding no drama but walking through Qantas domestic !!
In the fiery segment on The Project last night, Bickmore asked Price: “Why do women have to do it discreetly, what is your issue with it?”
She pointed out that mothers would feed their children where they need to, “not where you want us to”.
Price stood his ground, saying: “If my wife and I got off a plane – and we have two daughters, she breastfed both of them – and Wendy said to me ‘I think I might breastfeed Lucy while we walk to the car,’ I would say ‘are you insane? Sit down and do it properly.'”
Bickmore laughingly responded: “I look forward to sitting on your lap in the meeting … and doing it.”
Watch the segment here. Post continues after video:
Price’s tweet — and comments on The Project — have provoked a backlash among some of his 12 million Twitter followers.
Meanwhile, fans are praising Bickmore like mad on social media, with one Twitter user writing: “Thank u… You have no right to comment on women’s bodies or choices” and another Twitter commenter describing her as a “total (and fiery) champ” for taking Price on.
Well played, Carrie.
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Top Comments
I think the Mama Mafia need to back down. I don't want to see your boob hanging out of your shirt like you don't want to see my ass hanging out of my shorts. Your boob is natural? Well so is my ass. It's about appropriate modesty. 99% of mothers manage to breastfeed appropriately and inoffensively. Why are people fighting the good fight for the 1% who don't appreciate social norms? Surely there are more important motherhood issues to focus on like post-natal depression or pelvic floor preventative health?
It really isn't your place to make assumptions about what everyone else considers modest. Modesty is purely a matter for personal consideration for yourself and your home, outside of what is set by law. You are in fact saying that your standards are the only ones that matter. There are in-fact very few societies around the world that find anything at all offensive about breasts or breast feeding. Those that do generally have high codes of morality set by their male religious elders. I would suggest that the problem lies with those who can't look at a breast without erroneously thinking they a part of a woman's genitalia or have some sexual symbolism that is offensive. Yes, breasts can be erogenous zones but so can ears, necks, and in fact all parts of the body. If you aren't suggesting that the breasts are offensive because of this mistaken belief then what exactly is your problem with them? I have yet to hear a single reason to explain why breast feeding in public is actually offensive other than the small minority of people who place their personal "feelings of offense" above the needs of a baby. Children simply don't care unless their parents tell them it's wrong. I turn away when I see a plumbers crack because I don't enjoy seeing them that doesn't make them by nature offense. Can't you just do the same when a woman breastfeeds in your vicinity? Better still maybe you could find a way to just ignore it like most people do.
Why don't we ask the baby? Wa wa wa...what's that? You don't care where you are fed as long you are fed quickly? Got it.