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2021-02-25 -PC Follies
Academics called breastfeeding 'ethically problematic' because it endorses 'gender roles.' Their view is gaining traction.
[Campus Reform.org] Hospitals in the United Kingdom have begun using the term "chestfeeding" instead of "breastfeeding," just years after U.S. academics published a study in which they argued that the promotion of breastfeeding as the "natural" way to feed a child has many negative societal effects.

In early 2021, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals in the United Kingdom drew international criticism for swapping the word "breastfeeding" for "chestfeeding" in an attempt to be more inclusive of transgender individuals.

Likewise, Harvard Medical School referred to women as "birthing people" in an effort to "include those who identify as non-binary or transgender," as Campus Reform previously reported.

"We are concerned about breastfeeding promotion that praises breastfeeding as the ’natural’ way to feed infants," wrote Jessica Martucci of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Anne Barnhill of Johns Hopkins University in the journal Pediatrics. "Promoting breastfeeding as ’natural’ may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief that ’natural’ approaches are presumptively healthier."
Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-25 01:41|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 I hope none of the ppl who wrote this shit procreate
Posted by Chris 2021-02-25 03:07||   2021-02-25 03:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Apologies to Lenin & McC.:
When I find myself in times of trouble
Parent-Person Mary comes to me
Chest-feeding words of wisdom:
"Xim - Xer - Xe..."
Posted by Whomoting tse Tung8933 2021-02-25 03:15||   2021-02-25 03:15|| Front Page Top

#3 What about pregnancy?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-25 04:09||   2021-02-25 04:09|| Front Page Top

#4 
Posted by Dron66046 2021-02-25 04:18||   2021-02-25 04:18|| Front Page Top

#5 infected with the bug of progressivism, where everything HAS to be changed, no matter the value
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2021-02-25 06:44||   2021-02-25 06:44|| Front Page Top

#6 

The major problem with the Internet is it lets kooks express themselves and take on an authoritative role far greater they have or deserve.
eg. Dr. Fauci, Biden, Nancy, Transgender Dr. Levine.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-02-25 07:37||   2021-02-25 07:37|| Front Page Top

#7 But will they recommend half the population get off the gummint teat?
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-02-25 07:49||   2021-02-25 07:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Academics are 'problematic' to society

Do they grow food? Do they provide the energy to run a modern civilization? Do they move those goods to market?

However, they do a heck of a lot of sucking up the resources and gains of those that do.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-02-25 08:12||   2021-02-25 08:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Their view is gaining traction

... with other academics; the rest of us just laugh at this bullshit.
Posted by Raj 2021-02-25 09:41||   2021-02-25 09:41|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Well I'm just thankful modern medicine and big pharma have managed to cure the scourge of flu, emphysema, and pneumonia. You just never hear of anyone passing on as a result of this stuff anymore.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-25 10:10||   2021-02-25 10:10|| Front Page Top

#11 God gave mothers teats so that they could feed the products of their wombs. Take that academia.
Posted by irish rage boy  2021-02-25 10:27||   2021-02-25 10:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Intellectuals, yet idiots
Posted by Thineger Sproing6704 2021-02-25 10:51||   2021-02-25 10:51|| Front Page Top

#13 What Orwell said...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-02-25 11:23||   2021-02-25 11:23|| Front Page Top

#14 when the media makes grandiose statements like 'Their view is gaining traction' I like to think of that technique of adding 'in bed' to the statement of any Chinese fortune cookie. Except I add 'On Twitter' to the statement.

And then everything makes sense.

"Their view is gaining traction on Twitter"

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2021-02-25 11:52||   2021-02-25 11:52|| Front Page Top

#15 I can sit and watch it for hours.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-02-25 16:53||   2021-02-25 16:53|| Front Page Top

#16 #13:

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

― George Orwell

I hope he doesn't mind if I steal that...
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-02-25 17:15||   2021-02-25 17:15|| Front Page Top

#17 Will it take a war along the lines of WW2 to restore sanity to the culture?
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-02-25 18:27||   2021-02-25 18:27|| Front Page Top

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