NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne Bashes Public Breastfeeding After Supermarket Encounter
- Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:44pm by
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NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne has found his way into a heap of controversy for tweeting about his loss of appetite following a glimpse of a woman breastfeeding openly in a grocery store. To make matters worse, after tweeting his thoughts on the act, he spat back at least one disparaging comment to a follower who replied to his tweets in disagreement.
Kahne latter deleted his angry response tweet, but without a apology as if it never happened. Take a look at Kahne’s original comments:

The controversial comments did not go unnoticed by several feminist bloggers.
“You’re being horribly sexist, Kasey Kahne, and your misogyny is really unattractive considering the number of female NASCAR fans,” writes blogger SB Sarah.
“If NASCAR is a family sport, one must assume some of those family members were breastfed.”
Kahne’s comments on Twitter were directly posted on his Facebook and fans liked both posts over 800 times in total, with a heated debate emerging between Facebook users among the post’s 300 plus comments.
“Kasey I used to be your biggest fan but now I just think you are an ass,” commented one Facebook user. Another Facebook user quickly came to Kahne’s defense:
“Lay off of Kasey, people. He is entitled to his opinion. He never once said he was against it, he’s just saying that that was not something he wanted to see while shopping. She should have covered it up!”
Kahne’s NASCAR sponsor Great Clips quickly tweeted a statement apologizing for their driver’s tweet: “Our apologies for this. Please know that response was uncalled for & does not reflect our organization.”
Kahne, however, is by no means the first person to express being uncomfortable around breastfeeding in public.
A recent incident in Houston has lead to nationwide protest after staff at a Target store asked a mother nursing her child in a remote area of the Target to move it to a fitting room. The mother told press she felt that she was harassed by a “whole handful of women Target employees.”
Organizing on Facebook, nursing moms upset with the Target staff’s actions at the Houston store have begun staging “nurse-ins” at locations across the country. The latest nurse-in took place in a Chicago store Tuesday, when about a dozen moms met up at about 10 a.m and began publicly breastfeeding inside the Target Starbucks. NBC Chicago reports that the Chicago store supported the nursing mothers.
Target representatives told NBC that it has always been the store’s policy to make women feel comfortable when breastfeeding.
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Colonel_ICE
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:18pmDoes no one have any reading comprehension anymore? It was not the fact that she was feeding her baby, but the fact that she had it hanging out for all to see! If a women or man exposes themselves in public, it is “indecent exposure” which is a CRIME. Just because you have a baby hanging off your teat does not make it magically not nudity. Cover up your private parts, whether you are a man or woman. Don’t just flop it out. It ain’t legal for a man, and it ain’t legal for a woman…
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:26pmIt probably made his sticker peck out…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:26pmBut… it’s alright for a guy?
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:58pm@Lukerw
Report Post »Most places of business have a “no shirt no service” policy that doesn’t discriminate. The only exceptions might be beach locations.
guntotinsquaw
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:44pmActually Colonel ….In my state, it’s not a crime..breastfeeding is protected by law.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:56pmIn San Fransisco, men hang out their willies in public all the time. Nasty.
San Francisco Bans Naked Dining Amid Hygiene Fears
Report Post »Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/03/san-francisco-bans-naked-dining-amid-hygiene-fears/#ixzz1ht9a9tU9
DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 11:48pmShe did have it covered up with a blanket. Read the story before you criticize.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 2:27amIn many jurisdictions, public breastfeeding is legally protected.
Report Post »rdeebee
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 3:35pmActually, you are 100% incorrect – In 45 states there are laws that allow women to breastfeed anywhere in public, and in 28 states there are laws specifically exempting breastfeeding women from public indecency laws. And anyone who would equate a breastfeeding mother with someone urinating or copulating in public is just too stupid to be bothered with.
Report Post »patbarker
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:17pmI did see this legal opinion from a lawyer on another site. …
Report Post »“if the teet is loose, you‘ll be in Casey’s noose”
dealer@678
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:29pmI saw a mexican feeding 2 babies at the same time with 2 more waiting at Kroger store
Report Post »booger71
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 6:37pmdealer@678
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:29pm
I saw a mexican feeding 2 babies at the same time with 2 more waiting at Kroger store
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Had she paid for the jars of baby food yet?
Tri-ox
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:16pmOpenly, visibly breastfeeding in public is a very low-class, discourteous, inconsiderate, lazy act – just because it is “natural”, does not mean that it is appropriate in a public setting.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:22pmI agree. They make breastfeeding covers so you can feed the baby and still keep everything covered. Public breastfeeding does not require breast exposure. The situation Kasey was referring too obviously involved a lack of covering.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:27pmUnder… Muslim Sharia Law…
Report Post »Bloody Sam
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:31pmExactly. Peeing is natural. Should we do that in public? Scratching one’s most intimate of areas is natural. Should we do that in public? Farting is natural. Should we do it in public?
Report Post »I could go on but the image is clear enough.
Casca1
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:48pmActually..farting is fun to do in public. Walk away quick. Find a nice spot to observe the reactions of those where the bomb was laid.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:55pm@CASCA1
Report Post »Lol :)
bikerr
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:42pm@Casca1—To old can‘t trust’ em.
Report Post »neckcarjim
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:16pmDon’t mind drinking from the tap but these women cold be a little more respectful of the people in there surroundings.
Report Post »ed0315
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:14pmShow off nursing mothers are like queers demanding that everyone knows about them and excepts them. Attention whores. Go to the bathroom and queers get back in the closet!
Report Post »proud2bmom
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:43pmDo you eat in public restrooms? Why should that baby? I agree that nursing mothers should have some modesty and cover up but it is just disgusting that so many of you think a public restroom is an acceptable place to feed a child.
Report Post »SistaTriscuit
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 12:43amPROUD2BMOM – Thank you for an intelligent comment! The amount of idiocy when it comes to breast feeding is absolutely flooring to me. Take the baby to a public bathroom to nurse??? No thanks. Nothing wrong with a little modesty on the part of a mother to cover up when nursing in public, I always did. But in my opinion it’s certainly telling just how skewed our priorities are when people find it perfectly acceptable for a woman to walk down the street with her boobs spilling out of her shirt, but attach a baby to those boobs & suddenly it’s the most offensive thing in the world.
Report Post »finky555
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:14pmBreastfeeding and whizzing although both are natural functions, early humans figured out that breastfeeding was an everyday thing and ok in public and that whizzing is a health risk and is done outside the compound. Dogs don’t crapp where they lay but are fine breastfeeding where they lay. There was a time, back when I was growing up, when it was the most common thing to see, and no one took notice. It‘s been poopoo’d for so long that it is now uncomfortable, it”ll take time for the public to adjust, but it‘s coming back so it’s best we get used to it.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:30pmYears ago women had more class, now they don’t.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:40pmYears ago… children were born naked… ran around naked… and no one cared, or thought it was cute.
Years ago… there were no PC Police…
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:52pm@MOMSENSE
Report Post »Worth the read, regarding young women’s attitudes about dress these days:
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-death-of-pretty
chips1
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:06pmAND if you chew gum, you have to bring enough for the whole class……The line forms on the LEFT.
Report Post »sdeakins
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:14pmAfter reading this I feel like taking a piss at Wal-Mart in the checkout line.
Report Post »Gary Fishaholic
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:21pmThis was Target. WTF
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:07pmOh good, the All-or-Nothing fallacy. Thanks for brining your incisive wit to the discussion. You really contributed. I have your plastic trophy right here.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:20pmThe Reason I Never Black Friday shop any more is because 2VERY LARGE women with small kids were in front of me in line.One of the kids said,”I GOTTA POOP MOMMA!” She said,”Well Poop Then.So He did.The The Other kid said to his mother,”I Gotta Poop ,too!” Then he proceeded to crap himself as well. I Was Stuck behind these beast for an hour.They were also in the Fat People Carts.Ruined my plans to go for breakfast afterwards.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:46pm@Smokey_Bojangles–Just waiting for one hour seems like a stretch,I call B.S. I believe the other part.
Report Post »dannyo
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:13pmbreastfeeders or attention whores?? i’ll say the latter…
Report Post »sdeakins
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:16pmI’m with you Dannyo.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 6:10pmDANNYO,
I agree with you. I agree with Kahne.
It is rude , inappropriate, and crass !
I’ll go further. I don’t want to see you nursing in public even if you have a “BREAST CLOTH” you twit!
Here’s an idea for all the OH SO SPECIAL Earth Mothers.
Buy a pump and bring a bottle when venturing out into the public domain.
I have nothing against breastfeeding a baby. It is naturale. Non?
I DO have something against the current crop of extrovert mothers who consult “LACTATION SPECIALISTS” and foist their exhibitionism upon me in restaurants, theatres, and wherever else they happen to be with their nursing infant.
It is unseemly.
Report Post »west1890
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:20pmI think you hit the nail on the head- they are attention whores
Report Post »SistaTriscuit
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 12:38amWhat I’d like to know is WHY a baby latched onto a breast & discreetly covered while feeding is so disgusting, yet the same boobs spilling out of a shirt 3 sizes too small would captivate the ogling eyes of 90% of the men in the room? Your priorities are skewed, people. Breasts were not designed to be sexual, they were designed to feed our young. Do I really want to see a woman with her breasts completely hanging out, uncovered, in the open while she nurses? Of course not. But talk about CRASS – the comment to buy a pump a bring a bottle when venturing out in public is about as crass as they come, idiot.
Report Post »Just A Private
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 9:38amBravo SistaTriscuit . DannyO – that was a pretty wide generalization. Their may be a small percentage of people who fit under that label but many do not. Keep your ignorance away from the keyboard.
Report Post »sdeakins
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:13pmDefecating is a natural act..so why the uproar over that OWS goonie taking a dump in the street next to that police car.
Report Post »saranda
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 6:42pmYour logic leads to things like Sarah Palin being asked to run as VP. You make no sense except in your head.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:11pmI don’t care what the rabid psychotic feminists say. Women who act like farm animals deserve all the dissing they get. Nurse your kid if you want, but remember not everyone wants to see your boobs hanging out–some people are sicked by exhibitionism and THEY have rights too.
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:11pmI am all for breastfeeding in public–kids gotta eat and no one freaks out when a baby gets a bottle when formula isn’t as good for the baby. BUT coming from a mom who has breastfed 4 kids WHY would you let your other boob just hang? Sorry, that is unnessisary. I’d feel gross, but if I had to breastffeed in public I’d use a cover and keep all unused parts hidden for myself.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:22pmI’m going to attempt breast feeding when our little guy arrives in a few weeks. I also plan on doing it as discreetly as possible. There is no reason why I should be exposing myself to God and country when there are lots of ways to stay covered up.
Report Post »CLEttinger
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:23pmBreast feeding is best for the child, but it should be done in private. It’s a little disturbing to walk your 10 year old boy past a woman with her breast out. That forces an… interesting conversation onto another parent. I don’t believe it should be a law, just common decency.
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:34pmCLEttinger you can breastfeed in public with out your boobs being out. ALSO it is law in most states that breastfeeding is allowed where ever a mother is allowed. Sadly, breastfeeding seems to be more popular in the crunchy left. I also cloth diaper and can tell you conservatives are very out numbered and I think we are the ones most interested in being modest.
Report Post »GardenoftheGods
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:36pmI’m with you! Breastfed both my kids; but ALWAYS kept my breasts covered. Some stores provide areas for family usage…tho I never liked feeding my kids in the bathroom. What everyone seems to forget, most breastfeeding mothers who give a crap about NOT exposing themselves, pump their breasts & use a bottle when out in public. Bad taste in my opinion to expose one’s breasts in public!
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:02pmTHEKULIGS ~
I also breast fed all four of mine and did use cloth diapers with my first for a while. I eventually quit those because as soon as she ‘peed’ at night and the diaper turned cold (matter of minutes), she’d wake right up. After a few months and not a single night of sleeping more than a couple of hours at a time, I switched to disposable.
For the record, I never found the need to expose myself to the public either. Whether a cover was over me or not, I felt totally vulnerable. Never was comfortable with it, personally.
Report Post »rlmeals
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 8:39pm@THEKULIGS: Me too! I think some of my friends and family think I’m going “hippie” for some of the “crunchy” ideas I have, but I‘m really just a conservative who doesn’t want my family to be exposed to toxins and wants to be frugal at the same time. I breast fed both of mine with a cover, and never had a problem in public. I’m also a Christian, and I’m very modest. I think the enviro lefties have hijacked the “crunchy” movement and many conservatives today have such a bad taste in their mouths about it that they don’t even look to the benefits of it.
Report Post »patbarker
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:11pmmaybe the woman was waaaay too exposed. There is a way to be discreet. Two sides to this..usually if the feminazis are howling, I’m on the other side!!
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:10pmNo one is saying that a mother shouldn’t breastfeed. They are just saying go somewhere private to do it. I don’t see how that is in anyway taking any rights away from the mother or in anyway making it difficult for her to breastfeed. Basically the woman is saying she wants to do it and she doesn’t care if it makes other people uncomfortable or not. Of course consideration of others isn’t an issue, just that they consider her feelings.
Report Post »guntotinsquaw
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:54pmTell you what, you get all the businesses to build a breastfeeding room and we’ll be more than happy to go there for a private feeding…I‘ll breastfeed in the toilet when you SOB’s eat your dinner there…with the germs and bacteria and pubic hairs and drippings the filthy people leave..NO THANK YOU…but I have always covered. And for those that say “just pump” that is not always possible..a breast is NOT a water faucet to just turn off and on.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 11:57pmi breastfed around people when I had no other option and no one knew. you know why? because they have giant blankets that cover you and your baby. that is how it should be done I am also completely grossed out by women who whip their boobs out and litteraly feed in front of everyone with no discretion. it grosses me out and I am a mother and a woman. I was repulsed by a woman who’s son of I am guessing 4 walked up to her at my sons baseball game, lifted his mothers shirt and started sucking milk. I almost vomited and immediately asked her to leave. the entire boys little league was repulsed it somewhat traumatized my child. that hippie freak is disgusting
Report Post »lynda1276
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:10pmi breastfed both my children until they were 8 months old. No matter where i was i was able to do it discreetly. Sorry, i don’t get these woman. Save your energy, ladies, for more important issues like better schools for your kids!
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:08pmGood heavens.. he’d of hated a generation or two ago… why do you think God created breast.. just for men to play with… I have no problems with a woman breastfeeding anywhere she desires.. I do expect them to be a little modest though and cover themselves with a baby blanket or something.. nursing a baby is a sacred thing to me.. many a time I would have to stop in some public place to nurse my child.. and I covered myself and never had a problem.. Most women who expose themselves are the hippy generation.. who just let it all hang out. Always one bad apple in the bunch makes it dirty..
Report Post »knighttemplar999
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:08pmHey ladies, is it alright for me to hang one of my nuts out of my pants so it’s easier to scratch?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:16pmIf they hang low enough, go for it.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:24pmYou left yourself wide open… for comparisons!
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:07pmI don’t take part in any of this social media nonsense, but reading the “tweets” left me dumbfounded. Grown people actually type such absolute gibberish? And people actually are brain-dead enough to read it?
Holy smokes – we’re slowly cooking in our own juices.
Report Post »Casca1
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:07pmI salute you sir.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:04pmBoob envy!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:29pm‘If your eye offends you… pluck it out’!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:37pmIf a boob offends you, you just haven’t seen enough.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:47pmIt must be… the Bottle Baby Generation!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:54pmGarbage Pail kids.
Report Post »Biddle
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:03pmShocked at the pole results. I say feed the children whenever you have to! Do people realize what they eat everyday? We are all better off on the teet!!!! – disclaimer – do not seek random teet for feeding. THANK YOU.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:11pmI breast fed and had no problem finding places to do it in private … and now they even have more accomodations than WAY back then. People now think everything needs an audience .. youtube generation.
Report Post »1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:20pm@CATB
Again you are the voice of reason. There is a time and place for everything and tact is an art that is slowly fading away. Have a good day.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:32pmIts because they spent all that money on the cool breast tattoo, and now they get to show it off without getting arrested or put on a girls gone wild video.
Report Post »ohiochili
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 6:20pmBiddle, no one is against breast feeding. If mom feeds in public, she needs to cover with a blanket.
Report Post »Exposing female breasts in public can get you arrested, but if she attached a baby, well….
BTW, I’ve seen a lot of guys who go shirtless who need to cover up, too.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:02pmDon’t they drink milk after winning a big race? Wouldn’ they like it fresh, I would.
Report Post »FREEDOM_IS_NOT_FREE
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:58pmIts kind of dumb to share your every private thought with the whole world!! Don’t you think? especially if you are a public figure, you are always going to tick someone off. Keep your private thoughts to yourself where they belong unless you like controversy.
Report Post »And since you got me started, I don’t care where you had lunch today and what you are doing at this moment or what you did yesterday or what your plans are tomorrow!!
marklross
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:57pmBreast feeding is perfectly natural – Sorry – but so is staring…..
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:50pmAnd here I thought it was a natural act………gosh
Report Post »Trebuchet
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:57pmSo’s taking a whizz, How’d you some guy to pea on your foot in the supermarket?
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:09pm@Trebuchet
So, you’re equating feeding an infant with a grown man urinating in a store?
Good Lord?!?!
Report Post »MeCpl13
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:13pmTrebuchet, you’re really comparing giving nourishment to a baby with eliminating waste? Wow, you’re a complete idiot. Mothers should be able to feed their babies anywhere, any time. If you have an issue with it, don’t look.
Report Post »Trebuchet
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:21pmHey you’re the ones talking “natural bodily functions”. It was an extreme example to point out the fallacy of your inane argument. I look at women who have a compulsion to breast feed in public as people with low self esteem and a sense of powerlesness. Sort of like taggers who need to leave a mark so they can feel the world sees them. And I find women like this every bit as rude and self involved as taggers. Get over yourselves.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:54pm@trebuchet
I guess I didn’t realize some women “enjoyed” breastfeeding so much that they want to show the world. It is possible, I guess. People are pretty screwed up these days. But, I also assume that until it becomes “legal” to urinate in any arena other than a restroom, your argument basically holds no water.
Report Post »Trebuchet
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:19pmWell as I remember exposing your breast in public was illegal until a bunch of neurotic young women got together an threw a national temper tantrum until the pea brains in the courts gave them their way. So public urination may be next. Be careful what you wish for. Maybe youshould by a good pair of galoshes.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 6:42pmSo public urination may be next. Be careful what you wish for. Maybe youshould by a good pair of galoshes.
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They still do in Paris
TreeTrimmerJim
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:24pmWhizzing in public isn’t the problem, sanitation is the issue. Around the world there are other public opinions about bathroom segregation.
Beast feeding isn’t a public sanitation issue, whizzing is. No comparison.
Breast feeding is something that has changed in the last 50 years. What is the big deal?
Report Post »Trebuchet
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 8:36amPublic sanitation is becoming less important than certain classes rights. You have cities handing out condoms and fresh needles to junkies and nowhere do I see any restriction on disposal since most wind up in local parks and in the gutters to be picked up by city workers or negotiated like a toxic maze by children and families. Maybe they could use the whizz to wash down the streets in San Francisco. As far as I’m concerned breast feeding in public is just an initial step in moving us towards 3rd world status, which is where the progressive would like to see us so we would be at parity with the rest of the world and they could divide the wealth of all the countries fairly and evenly and we could all breast feed and urinate in public and live in state built huts and ride beat up bikes to work. Ahhh, utopia here we come!!!!!
Report Post »rdeebee
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 3:42pmOnly on this site would some idiot try and tie the downfall of America to breastfeeding in public.
Report Post »Trebuchet
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 8:34amAhh yes name calling, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Report Post »1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:49pmMILF, Got Milk?
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