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Tina Kimmel <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:40:45 -0700
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excellent!

i suppose this feeling is more like "misos" 
("hatred or strong prejudice against", as in 
misogyny), rather than "phobos" ("irrational, 
persistent fear of certain situations, objects, 
activities, or persons") for many people.

but "breastfeeding phobia" conveys the message perfectly!

tina

At 1:17 PM -0400 6/12/07, Kerry Ose wrote:
>... Help and compassion would be available, but, 
>in the end, if a person suffering from this 
>phobia could not, say, bear to be in the same 
>restaurant with a breastfeeding dyad, it would 
>clearly be the phobic, not the dyad, who would 
>need to go somewhere else.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Kerry Ose


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Tina Kimmel, PhD, MSW, MPH
Oakland, California

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