Monday, January 9, 2012

Do "oppressive and exploitative" commercials prevent women from feeding their babies?

feeding is about choice, but due to many of our societies outlook on feeding women feel it's embarring and/or inconvenient. Women don't need support from family and support workers, it's not hard for a woman with maternal instinct to figure out how feeding works, after all it's hardly rocket science, it's natural. The article makes out that women need protection and rights when it comes to feeding, when all they need is people to understand that it is natural. In some countries women are shamed for bottle feeding their children, so of course most women are influenced into feeding, but like you said it comes down to choice. The article talks about being oppressed, but surely not giving the option of bottle feeding is oppressing when the other option is viable and avaliable. It's up to the mother (and father) to weigh the pro's and cons and to what suits them.

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