georgetakei ,
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TinyGamerTris ,
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@georgetakei

This has been raging for a while over here and my opinion is very simple.

What the actual fruity-scented fuck was this woman doing bringing a baby to a clearly labelled 15+ event? DON'T BRING KIDS TO MATURE EVENTS!

the_wiggler ,

@georgetakei If a show has an age requirement, it should be adhered to.

huntingdon ,
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@georgetakei

Arj Barker's the baby and didn't want the competition for laughs.

jkeyser ,
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@georgetakei I'm in agreement with others here that he was NTA. But I am very disappointed by the article's clickbait headline that strongly implied she was kicked out FOR breastfeeding, not that it was incidental. It's unnecessarily inflammatory.

jeroen94704 ,
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@georgetakei Looks like a fine example of attention grabbing headline writing. Lots of commenters seem to have latched onto the word “breastfeeding” in the headline, skipped reading the article, and assume that’s why she was kicked out. But even the mom herself doesn’t suggest this was the case, only that she was doing so at that moment. She talks about the noises her baby was producing. So the question is how disruptive these noises were, and that’s hard to judge objectively.

caorann ,
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@georgetakei

The wording is weird. Did he kick out a breastfeeding mom (not okay) or a crying baby (okay)?

gg ,
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@georgetakei Is this about disturbing the show or about breastfeeding?

patrascan ,

@georgetakei my first thought was: why would someone take a baby to a comedy show on a Saturday night, which would usually be an adult audience?

cqd_sos ,
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@georgetakei
“In my experience of doing comedy for nearly 35 years, an audience’s focus is a delicate thing. If a noise or movement distracts people mid joke, the payoff can be greatly diminished.”

Well, while not being a performer myself, I'm still sort of able to appreciate the reasoning.

grandfubar ,
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@georgetakei come on GT. You bring a crying baby to a stand up comedy show and there’s some debate about this?

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