We often agree- (except maybe on certain Tom Cruise movies :).)
The problem with using breastfeeding for our theoretical model is that it's too sex specific. And so we (women) can't help but feel that when men comment on it, it's sex-related and we get touchy. It's the same problem that men have to deal with when they take a stand on the abortion issue.
It's not your fault you're a man. (poor dear) But I think that in the same way I have been told on occasion that I can't understand certain testosteroney things, or what it's like in the "real" world, women feel that men lack a crucial element- that of the actual experience- in judging the issues surrounding pregnancy and breastfeeding.
By the way, I read a post last week before I left on vacation- I think it was the Bush thread- and almost fell out of my chair. It had to do with pregnancy being this "natural" state for women, and a symbiotic relationship- good for both. I can't remember who wrote it, someone I don't know, I think, but it smacked of "barefoot in the kitchen" mentality.
I disagree --- I found pregnancy a demanding and exhausting year. And I was very healthy and very very eager to have babies. You need more sleep, more food, more iron and vitamins, all to feed what is truly a little parasite. And you're hormonal as hell. I wondered what exactly the benefits were to the woman this person meant, unless he was speaking in some Darwinian mode. Do you remember?
I quickly add I do NOT read the Bush thread, but had read E's posts and somehow saw this one, so have NO idea of the context. |
