[Peace-discuss] Anti-lactating feminazis

Thu Sep 7 12:06:09 CDT 2006

Really? Did I read this wrong?

It seemed to me that the article was claiming the breast-feeding movement 
for Christianity and the right. But NOT the "bad" Christianity that was 
upset about Janet's wardrobe malfunction. The other, "good", Christian right 
that stands up against the "bad" feminists who "slaughter babies on the 
alter of abortion". But NOT against the good feminists who, unlike the bad 
feminists, do not command control of their sexuality like men. The "bad" 
feminism archetyped, according to the writer, in "Sex in the City". (I 
believe it is actually "Sex AND the City", but nevermind).

If you want to say something patently offensive, couch it in an affirmative 
logic. That seems to be the standard with this particular writer. 
Publicizing the La Leche event was a nice touch.

s

>From: Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu>
>Reply-To: kmedina at uiuc.edu
>To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Anti-lactating feminazis
>Date: Thu,  7 Sep 2006 11:24:58 -0500 (CDT)
>
>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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