Breastfeeding

Some people have trouble with this perfectly natural act. South Florida blogger Tere goes on a tear.

This is the part about blogging and reading blogs that I hate: reading posts about situations in which people behave with such ignorance, such a lack of understanding or compassion, that it makes me physically ill.

When, people of America, will you learn that breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world, and that breastfeeding mothers need and deserve as much support as those who don't?

Is that asking too much? Then how about this: when, people of America, will you stop harassing breastfeeding mothers while you continue to turn a blind eye to gratuitous, degrading images of the female body?

Damn, people, I'm pissed, and I really hate feeling this way. Actually, I'm not pissed so much as I am filled with an awful sense of helplessness. It began with this, a post on IzzyMom about a mother on MySpace who has a picture of her baby nursing, and which MySpace has removed three times now for violating its policy about "sexually suggestive images".

Tere is dead on target, including her comments on how some lactation activists have done harm.(Many activists are radical in the ideas they advocate and I feel do more harm than good even if I basically support them) Go over and read Tere's post,if it will be worth your time.

Hat tip and thanks for the photo to Rick at SOTP
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