I'm late to the party here, but "lactivist" is a perfect term.
Posted by
kelly
May 11 '12, 13:43
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My favorite part of this debate is how breastfeeding mothers who claim they get rude comments, are harassed, etc. for breastfeeding in public, are a lot of times the same people giving formula feeding moms rude looks and comments for doing so. (And this is from personal experience.)
I'm not torturing my child, ladies. I'm making sure he's fed. It wasn't my choice to formula feed, I tried to breastfeed as long as I could, but not all bodies work the same way. Making sure my kid is fed was priority #1.
It just cracks me up that a lot of these comments and looks come from people who talk about how people look down on them. Mmmhmm.(Why should it matter how your kid is fed?)
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wow. sounds like you're around a lot of real bitches. -- nm
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kare
May 11, 14:01
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the irony is if you do not feed the kid, you are dammed as a bad parent -- nm
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peglegpete
May 11, 14:00
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fundamental way to combat your own insecurities
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znufrii
May 11, 13:57
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Can we be slacktivists? -- nm
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ceregon
May 11, 13:57
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yup!
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znufrii
May 11, 13:57
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Yeah, don't get me started on the la leche leaguers. They basically told us our child was better off starving than being formula fed. -- nm
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spamlet
May 11, 13:49
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I think we can all look down on those who pump their kids full of hamburgers and cheeseburgers and nuggets, right? right?
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Beryllium
May 11, 13:48
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Yeah, this had Mrs. NWBR spooked before we knew that Anna would breast feed.
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Name Withheld By Request
May 11, 13:48
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