WTF?

[muninnhuginn]

So I wanders off this afternoon to deal with things parental and come back to find my screen full of beautiful pictures of contented babies doing what comes naturally. Wow.

And the reason? Double wow.

And nope, I cannot see how there is anything obscene about images of breastfeeding... at all. Nipples 'n' all. But I can't find one of me and Looby Loo "at it" so the new icon's courtesy of cangetmad to whom many thanks. It's a gorgeous image.

I wasn't breastfed. I suspect I may have had better health if I had been and I think it was a matter of my mother's health post delivery that meant she didn't. My younger brother was. I did breastfeed. For just over twelve months. It was bliss. I'm certain it helped support Looby Loo's health and growth. It changed my attitude to my body and my internal view of myself--entirely for the better. It's not something to be hidden from view--except if an individual woman is happier to be private whilst feeding her child: her baby, her breast, her choice--well not unless we ban all images of anyone at all eating in public.

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[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

the false equivalence of breast milk and shit and urine

Ooh, isn't that an absolutely lovely piece of politicisation.

See now the fundamental problem here is something I would like to see changed: having to feed a baby in a public loo is nothing short of unhygienic to me. However, to try to make it a profound philosophical issue as opposed to considering it a simple consequence of cluelessness on the part of building designers is, not to put too fine a point on it, as dumb as the original design decisions. This kind of over-interpretation of the problem is yet another way in which militant breastfeeders are likely to wind up marginalising themselves and making themselves look like unreasonable extremists: if you create deep philosophical rifts between yourself and mainstream society, you destroy your own route to an improved life.

The question it leaves me asking myself is this. What do the Boob Nazis want? Genuine change, or simply to create and define a community in which they feel vindicated in their mistrust of the oppressors, and can enjoy their victim culture in peace?