"The milk from the person who gave birth to her” So they even use she/her for a hypothetical random baby—of indeterminate sex—but they can't call Mothers Mothers?
So it’s unfashionable and uncool to be “womanly”, unless you’re one of the Special Men or their enablers in which case it’s yas kween, stunning and brave.
Disrupting the mother-baby unit has been reported time and time again to have serious physical and emotional consequences for both Mother and Baby. I cannot understand how the ideology behind this movement justifies the potential damage of muddling definitions. This is so heartbreaking, but I thank you for speaking up, Lucy Leader.
"Why can't you just be nice? What does it cost you?" This is a good example of how that argument doesn't hold true. It costs A LOT: the words "women" & "mothers" have to be re-defined, and babies' nourishment must be sacrificed in the name of validation. Sorry, reality is a TERF.
“Interference for any reason at all in the establishment of early breastfeeding nearly always undermines achievement of the WHO recommendation of six months of exclusive breastfeeding.” This is great stuff. I know that’s not the point of the article. Still.
I certainly won't be buying a copy from a charity that treats its volunteers so poorly. Just a note, the previous edition (the 8th) was published in 2010 not 2018
I wouldn’t have been able to breastfeed my babies without the support of other women.
Me neither, Pam. Mother to mother support was essential to me too.
"The milk from the person who gave birth to her” So they even use she/her for a hypothetical random baby—of indeterminate sex—but they can't call Mothers Mothers?
That can't be a coincidence.
I wondered why LLL didn’t go with the sex neutral pronoun ‘it’ to refer to the baby.
(Tongue in cheek)
I would have not been able to breastfeed toddlers without the ongoing support of La Leche League.
So it’s unfashionable and uncool to be “womanly”, unless you’re one of the Special Men or their enablers in which case it’s yas kween, stunning and brave.
Disrupting the mother-baby unit has been reported time and time again to have serious physical and emotional consequences for both Mother and Baby. I cannot understand how the ideology behind this movement justifies the potential damage of muddling definitions. This is so heartbreaking, but I thank you for speaking up, Lucy Leader.
"Why can't you just be nice? What does it cost you?" This is a good example of how that argument doesn't hold true. It costs A LOT: the words "women" & "mothers" have to be re-defined, and babies' nourishment must be sacrificed in the name of validation. Sorry, reality is a TERF.
“Interference for any reason at all in the establishment of early breastfeeding nearly always undermines achievement of the WHO recommendation of six months of exclusive breastfeeding.” This is great stuff. I know that’s not the point of the article. Still.
I certainly won't be buying a copy from a charity that treats its volunteers so poorly. Just a note, the previous edition (the 8th) was published in 2010 not 2018
Yeah, whoops sorry about the date error, this has been corrected!