[Peace-discuss] Anti-lactating feminazis

[Karen Medina]

Excellent! Way to go Bambi! Pretty darn good article.

Support the La Leche League walk. 
Date: September 9th, 2006
Start time: 9:30am
What: breast-feeding awareness walk 
Where: Meadowbrook Park in Urbana 

Thanks David for pointing to this. 

-karen medina

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 07:06:09 -0700 (PDT)
>From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Anti-lactating feminazis  
>To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>To coin a phrase, you can't make this stuff up. JB
>just has to be left-wing agent provocateur trying to
>make right-wingers look utterly ridiculous. If so,
>he's doing a wonderful job.
>
>Column: The war on breasts: Where feminism and
>motherhood are forced to do battle
>
>John Bambenek
>
>Posted: 9/7/06
>
>A couple of months ago the cover of BabyTalk magazine
>showed a picture of a breast-feeding child with his
>mother, breast and all. Controversy ensued as critics
>charged BabyTalk with inappropriate exposure of
>breasts and one reader describing the image as
>"disgusting". Controversy about breast-feeding is not
>foreign to Champaign either. In 2000, a 32 year-old
>mother temporarily lost custody of her child on sex
>abuse charges for breast-feeding longer than the state
>cared for. 
>
>Earlier this summer, breast-feeding mothers were
>harassed by staff at Sholem pool for breast-feeding in
>public. Women caring for their children have been
>harassed in restaurants, parks and pretty much
>anywhere you find children congregating. 
>
>The law is quite clear that breast-feeding is not
>indecent or sexual. The medical community and
>community health advocates have concluded
>breast-feeding is what is best for the baby (and
>usually the mother). However, there is still
>tremendous public pressure against breast-feeding. 
>
>Despite the fact I see more boobs walking across the
>Quad, or for that matter watching C-SPAN, somehow
>breast-feeding is apparently too much for this
>promiscuous college town. After all, Champaign County
>does have a syphilis epidemic for a reason. A society
>that uses breasts to sell every conceivable product on
>the market is horrified by the concept of a breast
>being used for its designed biological purpose. 
>
>It could seem plausible to blame the religious right;
>After all, they were responsible for the protests over
>the infamous Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction of
>2004. However, the religious right is generally more
>child-friendly than those on the other part of the
>political spectrum. The religious right supports women
>having children in the first place, as opposed to the
>left which supports slaughtering them on the altar of
>abortion. 
>
>Here is a more reasonable theory about the source of
>resistance to breast-feeding: It collides head-on with
>radical feminism. When former Harvard President
>Lawrence Summers suggested there are biological
>differences between men and women, he was run out of
>town. Breast-feeding is the ultimate expression, next
>to child-birth, that women are indeed different from
>men. My Google image search for "lactating men" turned
>up no pictures of breast-feeding men. It did turn up a
>rather disturbing movie from the Netherlands that I
>would rather not talk about. 
>
>When feminism began as a philosophical movement, the
>idea was that men and women were entitled to equal
>respect and dignity. Neither I nor legitimate
>Christianity has a problem with that proposition. At
>some point a certain sect of feminists decided that to
>have equality they had to insist there were absolutely
>no differences between men and women. Instead of
>respecting men as men and women as women, the entire
>idea of gender had to be recreated. 
>
>The result is "Sex in the City" feminism, where women
>supposedly find fulfillment in acting like men. Or at
>least like sex-crazed seventh grade boys. 
>
>There is nothing in Christianity that comes into
>conflict with breast-feeding. "Sex in the City"
>feminism, on the other hand, has much to fear from
>breast-feeding. That is why you will hear those people
>label breast-feeding mothers as "nursing Nazis." 
>
>Breast-feeding in public is a reminder of a reality
>that resonates on the deepest level for women: their
>maternal nature. It is a giving of one's body for the
>benefit of another and comes in direct conflict to the
>selfish nature of "Sex in the City" feminism and
>society at large. It is rubbing the reality of the
>maternal nature of women in their collective faces and
>some do not want to put up with it. They would rather
>have breasts be viewed as purely sexual objects. 
>
>In short, "Sex in the City" feminism and
>breast-feeding cannot coexist. 
>
>On September 9th, 2006, the La Leche League of
>Champaign-Urbana will host a breast-feeding awareness
>walk at Meadowbrook Park in Urbana at 9:30am. It is a
>sad statement about our society that there are
>awareness walks on a perfectly normal biological
>process; nevertheless, come out and support
>motherhood. 
>
>You would not be where you are without a mother who,
>odds are, breast-fed you. 
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