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Larissa Waters cops online abuse for breastfeeding in the senate

"Waters will be remembered in politics as the dumb bitch with the big tits," one text read.

Governments represent the people, but unless the Australian community has suddenly become overwhelmingly white, middle-class and male, there are a lot of voices missing from the fray.

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Thatโ€™s why Greens Senator Larissa Waters bringing her bub to work with her is so important.

So many Australian mums canโ€™t stop working because theyโ€™ve had a baby and Waters is making it her mission to normalise that fact.

Despite the overwhelmingly positive response, thereโ€™s been a few ~~ignorant idiots~~ commenters that have taken issue with her behaviour.

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^ Itโ€™s funny how the trolls never seem to understand the concept of punctuation.

Despite the dangers of trawling through any comment section, we found even more comments disparaging the senator for feeding her child.

https://twitter.com/DJYABOYEARL/status/877854248968478720
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https://twitter.com/DJYABOYEARL/status/877858009627582464
https://twitter.com/ThatWeeadude/status/877931898143748096

^ Not a courtroom, geniuses.

When someone tried to defend her choice to breastfeed at work, there was this enlightening response:

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https://twitter.com/DJYABOYEARL/status/878000592785821696

Who knew the answer to childcare was just not having babies? So simple, but so smart.

Ms Waters told BuzzFeed News she had to breastfeed while giving the speech because, โ€œblack lung disease is back among coal miners in Queensland and Alia was hungryโ€.

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She added that she hopes her choice sends a message to other young women that they too belong in places of power, including parliament.

โ€œWomen have always worked and reared children, whether that work was paid in the workplace or unpaid in the home. I hope [this] helps to normalise breastfeeding and remove any vestige of stigma against breastfeeding a baby when they are hungry.โ€

However, the overwhelming support she received left her with mixed feelings.

โ€œThe fact that it is news that a young womanโ€ฆ can breastfeed in parliament, goes to show how far we have to go in making our parliament look like our community,โ€ she said.

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โ€œItโ€™s been 116 years in the coming, and itโ€™s tragic that itโ€™s taken that long.โ€

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