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Proposition number 1: It is a violation of Community Standards for a woman to expose her breast while in the process of breast-feeding a baby at a public beach.

 

Summary: {‘against’ the proposition wins. According to the rules of the vote; a vote of ‘disagree’ or ‘strongly disagree’ is a vote for the opposite or the negative of the proposition, therefore, the people have voted that exposing breasts while in the process of breast-feeding a baby at an undesignated public beach or other undesignated recreational area is not a violation of Community Standards. If we exclude the ‘no rule’ category, of 88 who voted either agreement or disagreement, 74% voted for allowing exposed breasts while breastfeeding on the beach (±10.4%, 19 times out of 20).}

 

 

Summary:

 

 

 

Score:

(Agreement Votes:

‘No Rule’ Votes:

Disagreement Votes)

 

Disagreement:Agreement

Ratio

 

Judgment:

 

 (‘for’ or ‘against’

the proposition)

All eligible Voters

23:17:65

2.8:1

against

Eligible Males

10:5:30

   3:1

against

Eligible Females

12:12:34

 2.8:1

against

 

 

 

 

All non-eligible voters

7:5:17

2.4:1

against

Teen Females

4:3:6

1.5:1

against

All non-Resident Voters

2:0:9

4.5:1

against

non-Alberta

Residents, Male

1:0:4

4:1

against

non-Alberta

Residents, Female

1:0:5

5:1

against

 


 

Details:

 

 

 

Number of Votes

Number of Voters

Number of Abstainers

All eligible Voters

7

16

17

28

37

105

2

eligible Males

3

7

5

10

20

45

0

eligible Females

4

8

12

17

17

58

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All non-eligible Voters

3

4

5

5

12

29

5

Teen Females

3

1

3

0

6

13

0

All non-resident Voters

0

2

0

4

5

11

0

non-Alberta

residents, Male

0

1

0

2

2

5

0

non-Alberta

residents, Female

0

1

0

2

3

6

0

 

Strongly

Agree

 

Agree

 

No Rule

 

Disagree

Strongly

Disagree

 

 

 

 

Of 105 Eligible Voters who voted:

 

61%

 

for allowing exposed breasts while breastfeeding on the beach

22%

against

16%

voted ‘No Rule’ (i.e. status quo)

 

If we exclude the ‘no rule’ category:

 of 88 who voted either agreement or disagreement:

 

74%

(±10.4%, 19 times out of 20)

for allowing exposed breasts while breastfeeding on the beach

26%

against

 


 

Graph 1A

Graph 1B
 

Discussion of Results for Proposition Number 1:

 

            According to the written rules of the Vote, a vote of ‘disagree’ or ‘strongly disagree’ is a vote for the ‘negative’ or ‘the opposite’ of the proposition, therefore, a statistically significant majority of voters supported the practice of allowing a female to expose her breast on an undesignated public beach while she is in the process of breast-feeding a baby.

            Eligible males voted in favour of ‘nursing freedom’ for mothers by a vote margin of 3:1. Eligible females voted 2.8:1 in favour of ‘nursing freedom’. On the other hand, teen female voters were less enthusiastic than both eligible males and eligible females, and had a vote margin of only 1.5:1.

 

 

 

 

Voter Comments Section:

 

 

Community Standards Vote 2008

 

Ifs/ands/buts/comments on the following proposition: 1. It is a violation of  Community Standards for a woman to expose her breast while in the process of breast-feeding a baby at a public beach.

 

[Comments are typed as the various authors wrote them with no correction of spelling or editing. Editor’s notes are in square brackets.]

 

[legend: M=male, F=female, number is age, X=not specified. The number after the gender is their age.]

 

 

1.

M17

 Breast feeding is natural, look away if you don’t like it.

2.

M17

 A baby is a natural thing and if her baby is hungry you gotta feed it and if you don’t like it don’t look.

3.

F16

 Kids have to eat and it shouldn’t matter.

4.

F16

 Thats disgusting

5.

F16

 Grose

6.

F15

 Its human nature. People need to mature and deal with it. Don’t look, if you have a problem.

7.

F15

 EW!

8.

Fx 

She should not expose herself entirely

9.

M19

If covered its okay

10.

F50s

Shouldn’t expose. nurse modestly as possible.

11.

F30s

A woman should be able to breast feed in public but she should be discreet.

12.

F20-25

 Never really seen anyone do it in public before.

13.

F20-25

 Its a natural thing for women to do as long as they are not being offensive about it (like waving them around)

14.

F20-25

 a baby needs to eat, just cover.

15.

M20-25

 If covered up with towel and not exposed to all in general public.

16.

F20-25

That’s a natural part of life.

17.

F18

Baby needs to be fed. Don’t stare.

18.

M18

Put a towel over it or something!

19.

F20

Never really seen anyone do it in public before.

20.

F60

Cover her and the Baby with a blanket.

 

-the end of Proposition 1-

 

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