In an earlier post I said something like, "I hope we *don't end up with a 'culture supportive of breastfeeding.' If we do, we still have a big problem. Imagine a 'culture supportive of brunettes.'" My husband didn't get it, either, until I explained it. Sorry. I have a thing about language. A "culture supportive of..." is a culture that still hasn't integrated that somethingorother into everyday life. We ignore brunettes. We don't have special places for them to sit, or special laws protecting them, or special clothes for them to wear. Brunettes are simply fully integrated into everyday life. There's no *reason* to be supportive of them. There's no reason even to notice them. My friend envisions a "culture supportive of breastfeeding" as a culture in which there are places at every mall to nurse a baby, nursing clothes available in all the catalogs, not just the high priced ones, and so on. I envision a *breastfeeding culture* as one in which babies are nursed everywhere, and clothes in which one can't nurse a baby are the exception. I think we're already close to being a "culture supportive of breastfeeding." But we are most definitely a bottle-feeding culture. E-mail me if you want to talk more about it. I love this kind of stuff! Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY [log in to unmask]