[Peace-discuss] Anti-lactating feminazis

[David Green]

My point is that there is no evidence that feminists
of any persuasion have a problem with breastfeeding.
Bambenek made that up from whole cloth, as is the case
with everything he writes.

David


--- Regina Cassidy <rcassidy at parkland.edu> wrote:

> Sorry, David.  I don't get your point.
> 
> >>> David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> 09/07/06
> 9:06 AM >>>
> 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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