🎬 CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: Virgin Australia Kicks Breastfeeding Mother Out Of Business Class Lounge (Podcast Exclusive)

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
On the cutting room floor today.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Something we didn't even mention on the show today because
we had so much on is this woman going viral
for blasting Virgin online for not letting her breastfeed in
the business class land.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
It wasn't even breastfeed. It was express breast milk, yep.
And it was under her t shirt. It was a
small handheld pump. It's not necessarily those big machines that
hook up like in milking yards. It was a small,
discreet pump that she said was under her shirt. No
one would have seen it. She was asked not to
do it in a business class lounge because people were complaining.
She was told she should go into the bathroom to

(01:07):
do it, which meant sitting on a toilet.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
In this world, I just don't understand where everyone's filming
everything anything like that. If you see a breastfeeding woman
doing something, I wouldn't say anything. If a woman walked
in this room now, with two bosoms out spraying milk everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
I would not say a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Why not because you can't say anything about breastfeeding women.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
It is out of step, and Virgin have really been
hauled over the coals because of it.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
But I thought Virgin Royal, Richard Branson and all that
sort of.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Now it comes down to individuals who come up to
you and say, do you mind? I don't like it,
and they say everyone in here is saying something, where
really it's just the individual saying I don't like it.
There's no company policy.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
But this woman was being quite discreet about it, having
said that she has a bit of a.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Look at me type person as well, come.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
On, she's not a look at me out for her
rights quite rightless by being surprised, outraged and inconvenienced, she said, well,
what am I supposed to do? Women are still allowed
to work and sit in a business class lounge and
someone has to feed a baby.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I have no beef with that. Before we laid up
the ute with angry villages.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
If this is what you think, you think, if someone
stands up for themselves in these circumstances, she's being up
at eat.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
You just said she was I think she's a bit
of a rage beata.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Rage bait is around everywhere.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
But if it happened to your wife, how you should
have every right to complain and to take to social
media to say, hey, virgin.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Of course it's but also as well a lot of people,
you know, before social media, you do stuff and events
even happen.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
But there's a whole world of rage bait. Now have
you noticed that?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
But I don't think this is that. I think this
is a valid thing to say, are we still here really?
Because she's calling out a company saying, as I said,
it might just have been an individual, but she's calling
out a company saying, is this your policy? Because this
is what I was asked to do as I think
that's not rage bait. That's calling out a bigger strange.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
She knew she'd get a reaction as she should.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Have you to say this, we're still here really, But.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
A lot of people that the internet is divided.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I don't think that she's got the answer that she
would have hoped for.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
A lot of people say I'll get over yourself, you know,
just do it discreetly.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Or do it more discrepatly, do it discret A baby discreetly.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
No, but she's not feeding your baby. She's got a breast.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
But that's what I mean everyone. But we're still there
where we're saying women can't be in public, in a
working environment anywhere and feed a baby breastfeed express milk.
Come on, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well that's a different kettle of fish. If you're doing that,
you're gonna get arrested.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Speaking of rage bait, but I always like that story
you say about a friend of yours.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
She had three small girls, I think they're all under
the age of four, and she's walking through a shopping
center and one of the baby is crying, so she
sticks it onto a breast and this lady walks past
me h and my friend said, will you do it?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Then? Don't take on a tired woman, Do not tie
do it, take out a tired mum.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'm warning you, Brendon.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I would never do that.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Twenty four and twenty two and I'm still tired.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
A woman could come here spraying milk everywhere you want,
hear a paper.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Out of me. It's our new competitions.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
An you won't got any quick, okay, kid, that's it
for sure.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
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