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17. What you said!

Reply to kdmorris (Reply #16)

Thu Aug 16, 2012, 08:15 PM

Aug 2012

It also seems to me that some of the judging doesn't start organically within the "woman" sphere - Susan Faludi identified these sources much better and more eloquently than I'm able to in her book "Backlash." I do agree with her observation that every time women make any movement forward, there always seems to be something that nags at our basic insecurities turned into an issue we tear each other apart over.

Another thing I've noticed: at those "nurse-ins" at Targets, Starbucks, etc - there never seems to be any attention given to whether the workers at those places have lactation breaks, etc. I'm all for non-stigmatized nursing, but the concern of these protests seems to stop at one class.

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"Sorry — You Can’t Guilt Trip Me About Bottle Feeding My Kids" (Jezebel) [View all] REP Aug 2012 OP

good for her. i breastfed 2 of 3 kids... ejpoeta Aug 2012 #1

So you were feeling pressure not to breastfeed, because breastfeeding would make you be pnwmom Aug 2012 #3

i think it was more me. When I had my middle child I would go ejpoeta Aug 2012 #4

I think that's why some women become champions of breastfeeding. pnwmom Aug 2012 #7

Why should you be surprised at the "venom" in the comments, when she started it all pnwmom Aug 2012 #2

She does have a point Warpy Aug 2012 #5

She might, but she framed it in an insulting manner. n/t pnwmom Aug 2012 #6

I'm sure the provocation was extreme Warpy Aug 2012 #8

In this thread there's another woman who felt like she was the "odd one out" pnwmom Aug 2012 #9

She's allowed to own those feelings after the treatment she received REP Aug 2012 #10

And the women who made comments to her are allowed to make them after the treatment pnwmom Aug 2012 #11

Okay then. I think they're batshit for going all out on her. I mean, who gives a flying fuck? REP Aug 2012 #12

As I said, my sister bottle-fed and I breastfed, and neither of us insulted the other one pnwmom Aug 2012 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author seaglass Aug 2012 #14

Good to hear you didn't get static! REP Aug 2012 #15

In late 80's/early 90's, I chose to breastfeed all three of my daughters kdmorris Aug 2012 #16

What you said! REP Aug 2012 #17

She sounds like an asshole. LeftyMom Aug 2012 #18

Yeah, I used to hear that about my mother REP Aug 2012 #19