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Study: Describing Breastfeeding as ‘Natural’ Is Unethical Because It Reinforces Gender Roles
Heat Street ^ | April 26, 2017 | Jillian Kay Melchior

Posted on 04/27/2017 6:04:41 AM PDT by C19fan

It’s “ethically inappropriate” for government and medical organizations to describe breastfeeding as “natural” because the term enforces rigid notions about gender roles, claims a new study in Pediatrics.

“Coupling nature with motherhood… can inadvertently support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women in the family (for example, that women should be the primary caretaker,” the study says.

(Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: lgbt; women
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To: Scrambler Bob

I believe in de-evolution. Man isn’t coming from the apes, he is going to them.


21 posted on 04/27/2017 7:28:31 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Scrambler Bob

I believe in de-evolution. Man isn’t coming from the apes, he is going to them.


22 posted on 04/27/2017 7:28:31 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Completely agree.

That’s what I was hinting at.


23 posted on 04/27/2017 7:34:48 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: DannyTN

+1


24 posted on 04/27/2017 7:38:04 AM PDT by bantam
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To: tophat9000
My god now we’re no longer mammals

The "Bloodhound Gang" begs to differ ...

25 posted on 04/27/2017 7:47:29 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: vladimir998
"Our society now exalts sheer stupidity."

Which passes itself off as sophistication.
26 posted on 04/27/2017 7:52:37 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: C19fan
Please show me the breastfeeding male mammals.
27 posted on 04/27/2017 7:54:06 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: C19fan
"Gender" refers to language. The article appears to confuse philology with biology.

Beyond that point, the article is very much more confused than just over academic disciplines. Sex roles are biologically determined. Every rational person understands that; understands, also, that in the higher forms of life, sex roles are of preeminent importance.

The article is just one more illustration of the fact that Leftist theory is now, and has been since its earliest manifestations, a war on reality.

I certainly recognize the comedy value of pieces like this. The tragedy is that there are actually academics so confused as to take this as a rational point of view. They belong in the Academy that Dean Swift describes in some detail in Gulliver's voyage to Laputa. (I recommend its insights into the Leftist Academic mind.)

28 posted on 04/27/2017 8:21:19 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: C19fan

We apparently exist as pure energy, and just play around with various sexes and orientations and physical forms for our own amusement. :)


29 posted on 04/27/2017 8:23:19 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: FatherofFive

>> Our society now exalts sheer stupidity.
>
> Only the HiLiary half.

Then explain why the Republican party hasn’t repealed ObamaCare, or even attempted to as-a-whole. Explain why ALL the Republican party senators, save Mr. Cotton, voted *FOR* the Iran Deal.


30 posted on 04/27/2017 8:27:56 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: Yaelle
Here ya go:


31 posted on 04/27/2017 8:30:42 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: C19fan

Last week there was a similar article that said labeling breastfeeding natural might lead mothers to positions that embrace antivaxing, herbal remedies, and homeschooling, all of which removed the mothers from the influence of the medical establishment.


32 posted on 04/27/2017 8:35:03 AM PDT by kalee
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To: C19fan

The liberal/Progressives/Democrat mental illness is rapidly spreading. Un-freaking believable.


33 posted on 04/27/2017 8:38:54 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: C19fan

It’s no longer enough to laugh at or shrug off this crap
How can we defund it and/or sue it out of existence?


34 posted on 04/27/2017 9:04:30 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Edward.Fish
Then explain why the Republican party hasn’t repealed ObamaCare, or even attempted to as-a-whole. Explain why ALL the Republican party senators, save Mr. Cotton, voted *FOR* the Iran Deal.

When 0bama was first elected, Republicans said we need to get back into power. We gave them the House. Then they said we need the Senate. We gave them the Senate. Then they said they needed the Presidency. We gave it to them, AND the SCOTUS. It is not the Republican Party, which can and does win. It is the RINOs like McConnell and Ryan who are the problem.

35 posted on 04/27/2017 10:00:53 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: C19fan

Implicit in their argument is that people are under some obligation to not support “biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women in the family”.


36 posted on 04/27/2017 10:08:13 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: C19fan

These people are simply no longer even attempting to appear rational.


37 posted on 04/27/2017 12:08:01 PM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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