I have to laugh at this one because I am an obese woman who has no partner
in site.  LOL.  But I do get the point.  And I agree.  :)

At 06:35 AM 9/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:14, Andrea Duval wrote:
>
>Bottle ads are rife with subtle negative messages about breastfeeding.
>"Educational" materials can have these too.  ICEA's New Parent video III
>depicts as a nursing mom an obese woman with no partner in sight,
>fumbling with the phone and clearly having a hard time with simple
>tasks; yet the happy and thin couple sitting together on the sofa
>discuss how nice it is to have the father give relief bottles to the
>baby.  It also of course contains in-line ads for a bottle company.

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