Even though we live in the 21st century, there are still people who hold outdated and strange beliefs about marriage and women’s rights regarding their bodies.
One netizen recently shared screenshots of a disturbing conversation between a husband and wife. The husband accused his wife of incest because she was breastfeeding their child.
The absurdity of this situation caused public shock and surprise at the man’s primitive views.
The exchange between husband and wife was originally shared on Reddit. It later spread to the X platform (formerly known as Twitter), where, understandably, it caused a real storm.
The conversation started with a man’s message. He wrote: “Are you breastfeeding? You know how bad it makes me feel,” the man wrote, adding that the decision to breastfeed his son was “disrespectful.”
The wife, who at the time was still in the hospital after giving birth, offered a compromise: she would breastfeed the child only when her husband could not see. However, the man stated that “everything is over between them”.
Although the wife tried to educate her husband about the benefits of breastfeeding, he replied, “the result is that I will never be able to look at you the same way again.”
Continuing, he added, “I think you’re a bad wife. I think you don’t respect me. You took away all my joy. I have so many thoughts in my head. I used to like your breasts, but now that they’re in another man’s mouth, I don’t like them anymore.”
It is important to emphasize that the man he was referring to was their newborn son, not a grown man. So the wife reminded her husband of this, and he replied, “He is a husband and your son. In my eyes, this is incest.”
When this conversation was shared on Reddit, many netizens expressed their opinion in the comments.
One user wrote “Her breasts are no longer for his pleasure, her breasts are now serving their true function. How dare he resist that?”
Another added: “Oh my god. What did I just read? A father is jealous of his newborn baby because he is breastfed and blames the mother for it. Where is this world going? How ugly of a person do you have to be to think that? Does he really think women are sex toys? He sexualizes and despises his partner because she is breastfeeding.”
The woman who shared the story on Reddit (she’s not the woman the man accused of incest) explained: “I think our society continues to sexualize breastfeeding and this man is really exaggerating.”
The woman also spoke about her experiences, saying: “When I returned to work after giving birth, my employer did not agree to adjust my schedule so that I could breastfeed. I was simply offered to feed the child with milk formulas.”
The woman added that the man would also consider it incest if a two-year-old child bathed with the mother. He seems to have an overly sexualized view of this type of thing, perhaps even an Oedipus complex,” she said.
The internet is full of stories about men possessing women, but this man really crossed the line. This again emphasizes the need to fight against outdated beliefs and promote respect for women’s autonomy so that they have the freedom to do what they want with their bodies.
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