Emma Kwasnica, founder of Eats on Feets, had personally opened the door 
to the police, after being reported for child abuse and for posting 
photographs of her engaging in sex acts with her own children on the 
internet.  The police thought her breastfeeding photos were very cute.

If any woman on the planet, is aware that women need support, it's the 
woman who has had to call laywers, to stop herself being stalked, and 
had to deal with being accused of a being a child pornographer for 
breastfeeding her own kids

Like I said: trust women, women are smart.  :-)

Morgan Gallagher

On 24/11/2010 12:59, heather wrote:
>> That's where most us are disagreeing.  we think the women who are the 
>> volunteers, are just as intelligent and capable as everyone else.  :-)
>
>
>
> Well, yes.
>
> Most of them will be absolutely fine, capable, intelligent and strong 
> in most circumstances.
>
> A few circumstances will flummox the finest, most capable, most 
> intelligent and strongest of them (see Susan's post about the 
> four-year-old being sued for a sad accident). Some of them will not be 
> quite so fine, capable and so on -  as I wasn't, some years ago, when 
> I got embroiled with a persistent caller and needed the backing of my 
> organisation to bale me out. Or one of the volunteers I work with, who 
> had a series of unpleasant and threatening contacts from someone who 
> didn't actually have a baby (apart from the one in her head), and who 
> needed the organisation's protocols, and, crucially, personal support, 
> to enable her to use her intelligence, capability and so on (and not 
> leave the organisation).
>>
>> Although there is quite a lot of evidence that the women setting up 
>> this organisation, are not turning to women who have done the work in 
>> other orgs, and sharing the collective wisdom, as they are being fed 
>> up labelled as young, naive and too inexperienced to know what 
>> they've gotten themselves into.
>
> I won't continue to post publically about this, as I'm uncomfortable 
> with the idea that I am somehow labelling anyone or dismissing them . 
> EoF are probably aware of the risks by now if they have been reading, 
> and think that because they can envisage dealing with them just fine 
> (whatever the risks are? all of them?), there is no need to have 
> support, already in place, for others.
>
> To doubt the wisdom of that is not, I promise you, any reflection on 
> my feminism (rock solid since the 1970s!), my belief in the value of 
> woman-to-woman support and the potential of milk sharing , or my 
> confidence in breastfeeding and in activism.
>
> Heather Welford Neil
> NCT bfc, tutor, UK
>
>
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