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  • Now They Are Going After Breastfeeding...

    Will the insanity of the left ever end?

    It’s “ethically inappropriate” for government and medical organizations to describe breastfeeding as “natural” because the term enforces rigid notions about gender roles, claims a new study in Pediatrics.

    “Coupling nature with motherhood… can inadvertently support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women in the family (for example, that women should be the primary caretaker,” the study says.

    The study notes that in recent years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization, and several state departments of health have all promoted breastfeeding over bottle-feeding, using the term “natural.”

    Referencing the ‘natural’ in breastfeeding promotion… may inadvertently endorse a set of values about family life and gender roles, which would be ethically inappropriate,” the study says

    https://heatst.com/culture-wars/stud...-gender-roles/
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    >_<

    Silly political correctness people are silly.
    Middle-of-the-road swing voter. Feel free to sway my opinion.

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    • #3
      I'm glad I was off the breast before this nonsense came along.
      I wonder how many babies are going to starve, lifeless from their dad's teat?
      Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View Post
        I'm glad I was off the breast before this nonsense came along.
        I wonder how many babies are going to starve, lifeless from their dad's teat?
        Stoopid sexist babies.
        Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View Post
          I'm glad I was off the breast before this nonsense came along.
          I wonder how many babies are going to starve, lifeless from their dad's teat?
          ^____ that.

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          • #6
            They're not really "going after" breastfeeding. It's just one of those cases of goofy political correctness in regards to terminology.

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            • #7
              I accessed the journal Abstract:

              This is what the authors wrote therein: " . . .Medical and public health organizations recommend that mothers exclusively breastfeed for at least 6 months. This recommendation is based on evidence of health benefits for mothers and babies, as well as developmental benefits for babies. A spate of recent work challenges the extent of these benefits, and ethical criticism of breastfeeding promotion as stigmatizing is also growing.[1] Building on this critical work, we are concerned about breastfeeding promotion that praises breastfeeding as the “natural” way to feed infants. This messaging plays into a powerful perspective that “natural” approaches to health are better, a view examined in a recent report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.[2] Promoting breastfeeding as “natural” may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief that “natural” approaches are presumptively healthier. This may ultimately challenge public health’s aims in other contexts, particularly childhood vaccination. . ."

              I can see what they are saying, I wonder if there were not better ways to say it. However, Academic freedom of speech means that they have every right to raise these concerns.
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              • #8
                Political correctness nonsense.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Yttrium View Post
                  >=(

                  Insane political correctness people are dangerously insane.
                  Fixed for you (also Leonhard), limpwristed ''''''moderate''''' who only squeaks at wrongs of progressives but thunders against conservatives!!!
                  Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by seer View Post
                    Now They Are Going After Breastfeeding...
                    Muhuhahahahah!!! We will destroy that breastfeeding!!!

                    Oh, they're just suggesting that health organisations refrain from marketing breast feeding using the term "natural", because "natural" is a bit of a slippery term? Why is this even a thread?

                    Will the insanity of the left ever end?
                    We will forever stand for rationality and facts and caring for others, which will forever be in opposition to the right-wing nonsense of alt-facts irrational nonsense and selfishness. So if you see that as 'insanity', then I guess it will never end.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                      Oh, they're just suggesting that health organisations refrain from marketing breast feeding using the term "natural", because "natural" is a bit of a slippery term? Why is this even a thread?
                      Why is natural a slippery term:

                      "Referencing the ‘natural’ in breastfeeding promotion… may inadvertently endorse a set of values about family life and gender roles, which would be ethically inappropriate

                      That is just stupid...

                      We will forever stand for rationality
                      Like calling "natural" ethically inappropriate is rational?
                      Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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                      • #12
                        This is happening because it is the "in" thing to have your very own injustice to rail against in the social justice world. It is a matter of pride and prestige. but all of the normal injustices already have been brought to the public's eye, such as racism, mental illness, fat shaming. So we have these SJWs struggling to find new causes to go after, or victims to protect, so we end up with such ridiculous things as this idiocy on breastfeeding, or like in the screwball thread about the woman who said cheering and applauding was not fair to deaf people so people should use jazz hands instead, or claiming that eating tacos is cultural appropriation.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                          Oh, they're just suggesting that health organisations refrain from marketing breast feeding using the term "natural", because "natural" is a bit of a slippery term? Why is this even a thread?
                          It is natural.
                          It is the truth - it is also the truth that it is healthier for the baby.
                          Maybe promoting it is good for infant health?

                          PRO TIP: When your political allegiances cause you to cast shade on the truth then it is time to discard allegiances.
                          There isn't anything about being a good progressive that should make you discard science.
                          Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View Post
                            It is natural.
                            Not a useful term though. Wearing clothing isn't natural. Flying in planes isn't natural. Numerous poisonous plants are natural. There's a current fad in alternative medicine where "natural" is used as a synonym for 'good' to try and sell products of dubious medical value. AFAICT the authors mentioned in the OP are totally fine with breast-feeding, they just give a variety of reasons that the word 'natural' is a poor marketing choice in promoting it.

                            PRO TIP: When your political allegiances cause you to cast shade on the truth then it is time to discard allegiances.
                            I guess rather than being in the "alternative facts" crowd of Kellyanne Conway, I prefer to be in what Karl Rove derisively termed the "reality-based community".

                            There isn't anything about being a good progressive that should make you discard science.
                            Precisely. I am a progressive because I am a scientist.
                            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              Not a useful term though. Wearing clothing isn't natural.
                              If breastfeeding doesn't fit the definition of natural then what does?

                              Precisely. I am a progressive because I am a scientist.
                              That is just stupid. Science has no opinion on social/moral issues. If it does then it has left science. And this whole breastfeeding thing is political, not scientific.
                              Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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