This post is pretty much completely random, but I had to point out two different anti-breast feeding stories I've read in one week.

First, Barbara Walters (and her hairdresser) were flying first class and became very "nervous" and "uncomfortable" when a woman next to Barbara began nursing her baby. Barbara apparently made a big deal of it on her TV show, so a bunch of "lactivists" held a "nurse-in" at the show's studios in protest. Now Barbara is blaming it all on the hairdresser. Story here.

Then, there's this:

U2 frontman BONO was horrified during a visit to Ethiopia, when he saw local women pelting a breast-feeding aid worker with stones.

The American woman was oblivious of the offence she was causing, and had to escape the angry onslaught from female Muslims who had no qualms about injuring her or her baby.

Is there some kind of movement afoot? TWO stories in one week? Or am I crazy?
You decide...
C
- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 6/17/2005 11:21:00 AM