Today I wanted to comment a text that I found quite unfortunate in defense of breastfeeding. To put ourselves in a situation, it is a group on Facebook that is called Breastfeeding and the seven deadly sins and that, in my opinion, incurs precisely in the rudeness and error that it intends to denounce.
It could perfectly have been titled "Artificial breastfeeding and the seven deadly sins" or "I also believe that mothers who bottle-feed sin".
The group is public, and the full text that I summarize here extracting the seven sins can be read in the presentation. It is a scene in which a mother breastfeeds and is attacked by various individuals who see breastfeeding as a sin.
However, if we read each of the phrases brought up carefully, it turns out that the sinners are not breastfeeding moms but bottle-moms.
That is, the argument is invalidated and completely turned around: it turns out that I am not called "sinner" but rather you who bottle feed are committing the seven deadly sins (well, perhaps the most doubtful is lust).
In addition, the defense of breastfeeding against interference in the name of morality and ignorance is mixed with a direct attack on mothers who do not breastfeed. Necessary?
The seven capital sins
These are the accusations that a breastfeeding mother faces:
PRIDE:You will say what you want but my child has been raised to bottle and is healthier and smarter than all the tit that I know ...
SLOTH:
Well, I make a bottle like a carafe and put it on my grandmother or her father and I rest, that the tit is very tired ...
LUST:
Oh, girl, to you as long as someone sucks you a tit and go teaching them ... Your child is such a vicious little vicious ...
AVARICE:
Well, I'm so sorry, but my tits are mine, and I'm not going to let the boy tear them apart having bottles!
GLUTTONY:
I do not give the tit or crazy, so I can eat and drink whatever I want, to see if I will not be able to take a quiet cuba for being a mother!
GO TO:
You think that others are bad mothers just because we have not given the tit, I did not give it because I did not want to!
ENVY:
Well, I have not given the tit because I had no milk and I took the pill to cut it, so I have no choice but to give a bottle ...
In short, nursing mothers are sinners (see lust ...) and also induce sin to others (pride, anger, envy ...).
However, either I am not very good at understanding texts, or my summary is totally different from the last lines.
But who sins here?
I do not believe that other conclusions can be drawn from the previous reading. In summary: bottle-giving mothers are superb, lazy, greedy, greedy or greedy, angry and envious. It seems that the only sin from which non-nursing mothers are saved is that of lust. Anyway, a shame.
With the amount of scientific and / or beautiful and accurate arguments to defend breastfeeding, falling into these absurdities seems to me a mistake and I also believe that it gives rise to mothers who give bottles or anyone else who reads them talk about "Fundamentalism of the tit".
For moms who want to breastfeed, I will say that, fortunately, in my nearly two years breastfeeding my babies I have not encountered comments like those listed in the text. I have not been accused of any sin or felt attacked. I have breastfed in villages, in cities and in different countries, on the street, in museums, on airplanes and in restaurants.
You can give a tit without being attacked and persecuted, it is possible, I attest to that. Let's see if with this kind of stories some mother will want to save herself problems.
Yes I have felt some prying eyes, of strangeness, but never of indignation and of course no one has come to comment on the play or get into my affairs.
I am convinced that there will be moms who have had to listen to some niceties and nonsense, and those disrespectful interference (I want to believe they are the minimum) cannot be defended or tolerated in any way. Here we have commented on some sad news about it in order to show our disagreement, and we will continue to do so.
But does that justify returning the attack with the same play? Because if the offense is for one, it can be for the other.
The worst of this text is that it is not even a “you give me I give it back to you” or pay with the same currency, you offend me I offend you (that would not justify it in my opinion), because it does not fit me the head of how someone, however twisted the mind may accuse a mother who breastfeeds envious, greedy, angry ...
For moms who bottle feed, I will tell them that I do not believe they commit any sin and that I hope they do not run into their lives with accusations of this kind, so disrespectful, by anyone, in the same way that I do not wish to Lactating mothers
What do you think? Is everything valid in the defense of breastfeeding? Is such a defense necessary, which becomes a pointless attack? Have you been offended while breastfeeding? And while you gave a bottle?
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