VFP Miami Prof. Adrienne Pine
Posted on 09/11/2012 9:32:27 PM PDT by smokingfrog
WASHINGTON — One day late last month at American University, Adrienne Pine was in a jam.
The assistant anthropology professor was scheduled to begin her course “Sex, Gender & Culture.” But her baby daughter woke up with a fever, and the single mother worried that she had no good child-care options.
So Pine brought her sick baby to class.
The baby, in a blue onesie, crawled on the floor when she wasn't strapped onto Pine's back.
The mother extracted a paper clip from the girl's mouth at one point and shooed her away from an electrical outlet.
When the baby grew restless during the 75-minute afternoon session with 40 students, according to the professor's account, Pine breast-fed her while continuing to lecture and review the syllabus.
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“single mother” says it all.
you stay home with a sick baby.
Okay, I’m a cranky old prude and a muslim. Or a cranky muslim prude. By the way, that’s what the gay marriage crowd calls people who object to “gay rights”.
so is urinating, so is menstruating - but we don’t deal with those things in public.
There should be no such thing as “a single mother of a baby” unless perhaps the mother is the widow of a soldier.
This is the reason that there were supposed to be two parents. One person can’t do it.
public breastfeeding is wrong. DId I accidentally geat onto a liberal website?
Do you truly believe that even an untenured associate professor would be fired for staying home with a sick baby one time? These are the same liberals that leave the mostly dead Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd in legislative seats when they should have been replaced.
“.. no one takes a baby with a fever out... crawl around on a dirty floor”.
I’m with you, GG! This has NOTHING to do with the fact that she breast fed her child. It has everything to do with poor mothering. You don’t take a sick child out. You don’t allow a child to crawl around on a dirty floor. You don’t put your child in an area where paperclips go into the mouth (or throat) or near electrical outlets. This has everything to do with the child not being considered a priority.
No it is not when there are no other options. It is silly to compare a natural act of feeding a hungry child with other things like menstruation, urination etc.
Ich bin ein kid weaner.
Thank you for speaking for me!
No, of course not. Even a hired instructor wouldn't be fired for staying home one time. But it's not one time. Babies get sick a LOT, especially if they're in daycare where they pick up diseases from all the other children and babies. And speaking from personal experience here, since I was once suddenly left with a year-old baby to raise alone, I can tell you that mothers can and do lose their jobs for frequent absenteeism to care for kids.
Yes, I agree also that there should be no such thing as a single mother, and that women should never make a choice to conceive a child unless they are MARRIED, financially stable, and the marriage is in good shape. I qualified on those grounds when I had my kids.
But stuff happens. Husbands go off to war. Husbands die. Husbands leave. Husbands get cancer. Life happens. There are just times when women with very small kids have to work.
So let's leave out this stupid woman's leftist or communist political philosophy and her no doubt deliberate choice to get pregnant when she had no husband. She is immensely selfish, but others are not. And I absolutely fail to see why young people sitting in a classroom should be other than sympathetic and a little amused when there's a cute baby in the room. How does that negatively impact their education at all? A good mother takes care of her baby automatically while continuing to think and talk.
If any of my kids have a fever, they can’t be at school. Period. I’ve had to bring my kids home w/fevers and keep them at home until it’s been gone for 24 hours. Not only is it good for my kids to get that time to rest, but it protects their classmates and teachers from getting sick and passing it on to their families and others they have contact with.
I’ve had my days thrown into chaos because of sick kids, and I have had to miss events or other important meetings because of it. I wouldn’t dream of dragging my sick children somewhere just to go to a PTO meeting or do the grocery shopping.
I guess since she’s an important ‘professor’ it means she can drag her sick infant to a roomful of students and doesn’t have to rework her schedule. The world would not have ended if she found a sub or cancelled that day’s class (given the name of the class, it probably would have been a favor to cancel). We stay-at-home moms don’t rate so high as this important ‘professor’ I suppose.
Being a mother (or father) means that sometimes you have to think beyond your own belly button and take care of the human beings you procreated. I’m sorry she (and a few posters on FR) don’t see that. It has little to do with the breastfeeding thing.
There is an amazing invention you may have heard of called ...the bottle. It’s what people used to use to feed babies in public before this exposing breasts in public fad spawned by feminism became popular in the 1980s.
You clearly have no idea on the differences of bottle feeding with breast feeding. The latter is clearly preferred by pediatricians. When there are no other options, there is nothing wrong in breast feeding in public.
I would be in her bosses office that day. She does not have the right to expose me to a virus.
“Sex, Gender, and Culture” would be a very interesting class if taught correctly.
It might even put normalizing homosexual “marriage” into perspective. Never been done ever throughout history, even in places where homosexuality among young people was rampant. Marriage was still always between a man and a woman.
But anyway, prof proves that she is from a culture that does not value women and that she doesn’t either. When a baby is sick, a mother’s first priority needs to be that baby.
To me , it’s not about breast feeding. That is human and normal. It’s about dragging your sick baby to work.
If there was nothing to be concerned about why was she concerned? Why didn’t she just use her normal day care? The baby woke up with a fever so she had no way to know how long she had the fever. I did not suggest she take the baby to the doctor. I suggested that a baby, even a well one, should not be crawling around a classroom floor and picking up things and putting them in her mouth. A baby old enough to crawl is usually on other nourishment besides breast feeding and she makes other arrangements for feeding when the baby is well. She should have stayed home and taken care of her ill child.
You nailed it....the baby was not a priority to her...her job was more important than a sick child...instead of facing poor mothering on her part,it became a breast feeding in public subject to deflect from the real problem. Her treatment of her child.. GG
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