• Experiment 1: Control Result- Saturday, 11/5, 12pm-12:30pm: Jeri sat at the bench inside the shopping mall from. During this time, I recorded the following results:
12:05pm- A middle aged man slows his pace while walking past the bench Jeri is sat on to stare at her.
12:12pm- A young man, looking to be in his early 20s, says “D*mn, baby, make my day” while looking at Jeri, most likely referring to her attractiveness and outfit.
12:19pm- A group of 5 teenage boys walk past Jeri and stare openly at her, slowing their pace. When they are away from the bench, they continue looking back at Jeri and take turns making comments, causing the other males of the group to laugh. I am unable to hear what they are saying but assume it is derogatory. …show more content…
I gave her a look to ask non-verbally if she was OK and she responded with a thumbs-up. After the conclusion of this experiment, Jessica relayed what the man said and commented that she “would have used the dialog-starter ‘Breastfeeding is natural’, but the man was staring very wildly at her daughter and she did not feel comfortable encouraging conversation with him because he seemed ready for conflict and this frightened her, so she chose to use the phrase ‘If you don’t like it, you don’t have to look’ to respond to his behavior, yet not encourage discussion”. I told Jessica she did the right thing and handled the situation …show more content…
Jessica says she is alright and the lady sits down and talks to Jessica about a time where she was breastfeeding her own daughter at a restaurant with her husband and a woman walked up to her screaming “You better stop that right now! You are in public!”. The woman admits she was a new mother and really embarrassed that someone yelled at her in a restaurant that she did stop breastfeeding and asked for their food to go, but with her second child, pointing to the child in the stroller, she says she has grown to realize that breastfeeding is natural and best for her baby and she isn’t going to stop doing it just because some strangers “have their heads up their own butts”. Jessica and the woman laugh and Jessica thanks her for the encouragement. This encounter lasts the remaining 7-minutes of the experiment. Jessica says she felt touched that another woman admits that public breastfeeding can be intimidating, and even admits that she stopped out of embarrassment, but went through the trouble of telling her own story to encourage her to do what’s best for her
12:05pm- A middle aged man slows his pace while walking past the bench Jeri is sat on to stare at her.
12:12pm- A young man, looking to be in his early 20s, says “D*mn, baby, make my day” while looking at Jeri, most likely referring to her attractiveness and outfit.
12:19pm- A group of 5 teenage boys walk past Jeri and stare openly at her, slowing their pace. When they are away from the bench, they continue looking back at Jeri and take turns making comments, causing the other males of the group to laugh. I am unable to hear what they are saying but assume it is derogatory. …show more content…
I gave her a look to ask non-verbally if she was OK and she responded with a thumbs-up. After the conclusion of this experiment, Jessica relayed what the man said and commented that she “would have used the dialog-starter ‘Breastfeeding is natural’, but the man was staring very wildly at her daughter and she did not feel comfortable encouraging conversation with him because he seemed ready for conflict and this frightened her, so she chose to use the phrase ‘If you don’t like it, you don’t have to look’ to respond to his behavior, yet not encourage discussion”. I told Jessica she did the right thing and handled the situation …show more content…
Jessica says she is alright and the lady sits down and talks to Jessica about a time where she was breastfeeding her own daughter at a restaurant with her husband and a woman walked up to her screaming “You better stop that right now! You are in public!”. The woman admits she was a new mother and really embarrassed that someone yelled at her in a restaurant that she did stop breastfeeding and asked for their food to go, but with her second child, pointing to the child in the stroller, she says she has grown to realize that breastfeeding is natural and best for her baby and she isn’t going to stop doing it just because some strangers “have their heads up their own butts”. Jessica and the woman laugh and Jessica thanks her for the encouragement. This encounter lasts the remaining 7-minutes of the experiment. Jessica says she felt touched that another woman admits that public breastfeeding can be intimidating, and even admits that she stopped out of embarrassment, but went through the trouble of telling her own story to encourage her to do what’s best for her