Are you following the Feminist Breeder's Facebook battle? She posted a hilarious picture of her 18-month-old daughter, who was on the fence about nursing vs. bacon. I told my kids the story and all four of the boys burst out laughing. They've all witnessed those 18-month-old nursling antics. The Facebook folks weren't amused, though. They disabled her account.
HuffPo ran a story on the conflict and I did a really stupid thing: I read the comments.
...Hold it, hold it, I am squeezing my skull tightly in hopes that my head will not explode at the memory and it's going to be a near thing...
So. In between DIY cranial repair this evening I have been wondering again about why people are not getting any less weird about breastfeeding. I've been listening to people talk about public breastfeeding since 1996. Things have changed a lot since then. In 1996 there was no state in the US in which a man could marry another man, and the idea didn't seem likely to gain traction any time soon. In 1996 the Unabomber was still on the loose. In 1996 the impeachment of a President was ancient history. The world has changed a lot since then and yet people are still talking about public breastfeeding as a plot for corrupting the youth.
Almost makes me want to dig up all the pictures I have of my little ones nursing and put them in rotation as my profile pictures anywhere that I have profile pictures. Almost but not quite -- a comment along the lines of some I've seen ("you're going to make that child into a sex offender!") would further imperil my delicate cranial sutures.
I stumbled across this cool blog post in my indignant state -- it's about the history of public breastfeeding.
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