I couldn't help but ring in on this one.  I have been noticing in the press
(New York Observer, Brain Child, New York Times Sunday Magazine) that with
alarming frequency the term "lactivist" is being used like a cuss word.  We
aren't referred to as our profession is officially labeled or even as
"specialists", but in ways that make us seem like extremists.  It is
actually slanderous, and intended to be so.  It stings when otherwise
objective (mostly female) journalists begin to draw us as intense, severe,
inflexible, judgmental battle-axes with a take-no prisoners approach.  We
need to be firm about being at least REFERRED to respectfully.  When was the
last you heard an ob-gyn referred to as that "vagina nazi" or even
"vaginaist"?

 

I hope that what this really means is that we are actually a threat now and
that the tide is turning. 

 

Lizabeth J. Berkeley, MPH, CHES, IBCLC

Department of OB-Gyn

Texas Tech Health Sciences Center

4800 Alberta Ave.

El Paso, TX  79905

 


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