Well, hey. What do you know? I pick up the book and in the very next section she addresses this, in the strangest way. She starts out by saying that she the facts she presents may be 'painful' or 'enraging' to mothers who haven't breastfed, but to not speak the truth is 'patronising' to women. I can see that, and do agree, but as Adam is fond of saying, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it." But then the very next sentence says that trying not to make mother's feel guilty is a 'cop-out'. Ouch. But then the paragraph later ends with "No woman need feel guilty for 'failing' to breastfeed, though she has the right to feel angry or sad for being denied support and information when she needed it." As if emotions are that rational!
This book makes me very conflicted. I agree with a lot of the information - but again, I just don't like her tone.
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Date: 2010-02-18 10:16 am (UTC)This book makes me very conflicted. I agree with a lot of the information - but again, I just don't like her tone.