Editor,
In regards to the breast-feeding incident at the Frontier Restaurant, the establishment apologized for its error.
It’s doubtful that this was ever a case of institutionalized “breast-ism.” It was probably more a case of a security guard and two employees making an error. Errors happen, and not every time that they happen do people need to polarize and make war about them. The Frontier issued an apology and said what occurred during “boobie-gate” was not its policy. What more needs to be done or said in this situation? Now, sides are being drawn, and people are getting a chance to complain about a situation that had nothing to do with them.
Whether in religion or politics or just day-to-day activities, it seems commonplace in the U.S. to be fractured and divided over every occurrence. It never hurts to throw in a good dose of indignation and feigned butt-hurt, but honestly, pick battles that matter, people.
This incident at Frontier was a big case of nothing that was apologized for. The only thing left to be done at this point is to move on, find the next polarizing event that matters not in the grand scheme of things, take a big breath and begin shouting until the next event to feign indignation arises.
Jason Eric Stafford
UNM student
