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Hannah Hulme Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:44:19 -0000
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> Funny how often bf is coming up on tv lately.  Perhaps even if they
> hate us for it, our pushing will result in it being polically
> incorrect to show bottles on tv shows.  Just like one never sees
> cigarette smoking on tv anymore.

....and have you noticed how it's only the *baddies* that smoke now?
(Cigarette Man in X Files, Hades in Hercules, my husband...!)
Maybe use of factory baby will become part of the tv/film baddie package...
(Cinderella would, obviously, breastfeed - but the Ugly Sisters - ?!)
TIC (of course - I think we do a great disservice to mothers through *any*
type of stereotyping).

Hannah
(midwife, NCT breastfeeding counsellor, village near Oxford, England)
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