Joey "Salads" Saladino posted a video online that suddenly has become viral. The video shows the prankster with her friend Emily breastfeeding in public with the purpose of showing how people would react to public breastfeeding.
Saladino posted the social experiment video on his YouTube account and has since been watched for almost 200,000 times as of this writing. Yahoo Parenting also reports that the video was also posted on Facebook and has gotten more than 111,000 likes and almost 170,000 shares.
The video shows Emily publicly breastfeeding her baby while accompanied by Saladino in different public locations such as parks and bus stations. Reactions actually vary: some people had strong reactions while some did not mind at all.
"You know there are private places where you can actually do this. You don't need to be doing that in public," says a woman in the video. "I'm sorry, I'm a new mom, and I don't know the rules," replies Emily.
There were two men from two different locations that felt offended by Emily's public breastfeeding and one woman who compared public breastfeeding with smoking marijuana on public. However, Emily had a few supporters who said that they do not mind public breastfeeding -- saying that it was alright because babies need to be fed.
Saladino also told Yahoo Parenting that he is going to post another video about the public breastfeeding social experiment but with an added twist. "I have a part two where I compare how people treat a girl with [visible cleavage] to a woman breastfeeding," he then shared.
Shamsudin Hamid, coordinator of CPS or Concerned Parents of Selangor, spoke with The Rakyat Post about public breastfeeding, "All this while, with concerns over women exposing their cleavage to promote cars and record albums, no one says anything. Only perverts are making a big deal out of these breastfeeding pictures," he concluded.
