there has to be a better way to promote and support breastfeeding, a way that doesn't make women like me feel unworthy of being mothers at all.
This is such a sad and awful phenomenon, the way people switch into this messianic mode where everyone who is not part of their One True Way is on the side of Evil. That not doing it Their Way is not just not-as-good but seriously doubleplus bad. (Paging Melanie Klein and her concept of the Good and Bad Breast and its relationship to the paranoid-schizoid position, perhaps.) Promoting one thing shouldn't mean persecuting those who do other things. People have to work from where they are with the options available to them. They do the best they can. Haranguing and stigmatising them for necessary choices is not going to win any converts.
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Date: 2006-04-12 06:15 pm (UTC)This is such a sad and awful phenomenon, the way people switch into this messianic mode where everyone who is not part of their One True Way is on the side of Evil. That not doing it Their Way is not just not-as-good but seriously doubleplus bad. (Paging Melanie Klein and her concept of the Good and Bad Breast and its relationship to the paranoid-schizoid position, perhaps.) Promoting one thing shouldn't mean persecuting those who do other things. People have to work from where they are with the options available to them. They do the best they can. Haranguing and stigmatising them for necessary choices is not going to win any converts.