rileyuk.co.uk

I regularly go to a breastfeeding forum nowadays for hints/ tips and general support from the other mums. Well, there has been a right kerfuffle over the attached article- which I have to admit has wound me up a bit. His wife is currently breastfeeding but he refers to the "indignity of breastfeeding" and says that it's "tragicomic watching accomplished women reduced to breastfeeding".

I know he's trying to be funny- but it's hard enough breast feeding without moronic comments like these.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... ris-cleave

I thought that he was being ironic rather than serious but I can see why people are upset. The comments at the bottom of the article say it all really!

That was a fairly average article in the first place, made even worse by that horribly misjudged line that Lizzie's quoted.

It's so bad, I think, because it reinforces the bizarre notion that breastfeeding is an inconvenience, some kind of dirty, shameful thing. If enough crap like that gets printed people begin to think it's true. One of the comments partly blames "media sexualisation": I feel it's more of a cultural thing, but the point still stands.

I would imagine that it's this sort of journalism that makes women think that breastfeeding, especially in public, will be viewed either in an immature way or worse an offensive way and therefore stops them even considering the option. When in reality, no one but the most tightly wound-up Anti-<insert today's complaint here> type of person sees it as anything other than natural.