Amazing, it's the 21st century, so gay men get to endure the same round of disgusting personal attacks from strangers that all the "selfish, materialistic career women" who didn't breastfeed 30 years ago did Ha ha ha Fuck
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pmberkeley and
God damn I can't get over it You lot never shut up about how far back the pendulum has swung since the heyday of Gloria Steinem et al but you're totally oblivious to how this motherhood shit you preach IS THAT BACKLASH
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pmberkeley and
When I was a kid, in the 80s, it was possible for women to publicly complain about breastfeeding, even say they didn't want to do it Breastfeeding vs formula was a "cost/benefit analysis" that was openly discussed Now you can't breathe a word of that without public shaming
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pmberkeley and
And you think that's "feminism"? You think that's progress? Fuck's sake what are you gonna get on Cohen's ass for next, yelling at him about messing up his child by having both parents work and saying a woman would be happy to stay at home?
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You're very ignorant and you don't care about women and children. Breastfeeding has important mother-child and independent benefits for all involved. It's also a difficult full time job for new mothers, and many pump. The debate over it isn't "formula vs breastmilk".
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Replying to @pmberkeley @arthur_affect and
The debate is over ignorant asses who know none of this, care about none of it, yet insert themselves into the conversation, arrogantly, recklessly, to demand that they can rent a woman's womb and violate what's best for both mom and baby for purely egotistical reasons.
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Replying to @pmberkeley @arthur_affect and
Like if somebody was getting a surrogate to have a younger sibling in the hopes of curing an older sibling's bone cancer, sure. Lots wouldn't oppose surrogacy in that situation. If the mother was killed in a car accident, or under an oppressive regime that doesn't recognize +
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Replying to @pmberkeley @arthur_affect and
maternity leave as a basic human healthcare right and necessity, bring on the formula. But to put this kind of a situation on your own offspring so you can have your "own" child and not adopt? What the fuck, this is not okay.
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I would like to thank you for doing us the great service of finally giving us clear guidelines of who, specifically, is or is not allowed to forgo breastfeeding in favor of formula
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pmberkeley and
Eh, I suspect this person can only talk that way generally, & when it's individual Mums, she's all "But do you REALLY have to work? Is the money THAT important to you?"
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She actually literally just said that She's only grudgingly willing to allow Americans to bottle feed because we don't have decent mandatory mat-leave policies Presumably if it were a British woman, or an American whose company does give her the leave, she'd say exactly that
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