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Subject:
Sweeping political stereotypes
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Kathy Dettwyler <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:40:51 -0600
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Someone wrote (about newspapers being critical of breastfeeding):

>The vast majority of U.S. journalists also fall to the left of center
politically, and that crowd can be  >hostile to the idea that baby needs
mom -- believing instead that baby needs a happy,
making-lots-of-money->during-long-separations mom.

YOUCH!!!  I suspect few in this field are more "left of center politically"
than me -- but I support/espouse/and practice attachment parenting and
'extended' breastfeeding.  It is more radically LEFT to fight for women
being able to work and have their child with them or at least be able to
pump.  There is no NECESSARY conflict between breastfeeding, including
extended breastfeeding, and working outside the home.  You can have
breastfeeding or bottle-feeding with long separations of mother and baby.
You can have breastfeeding or bottle-feeding with mom and baby together.
You can have breastfeeding or bottle-feeding with stay at home moms.  You
can have breastfeeding or bottle-feeding with moms who work outside the
home.

Anyone who thinks that the newspaper doesn't pay attention to what sells in
terms of choosing articles and slanting them one way or another is
seriously naive.  The writer of a particular article may have no axe to
grind or may not care if the papers sell or not, but the editors and
managers certainly do!!!!


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Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.                         email:
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