A headline in today’s New York Times unhelpfully announced: “Despite Advice, Many Fail to Breast-Feed.”
Apparently less than 100% of American women exclusively nurse their babies for their first six months of life. By giving my baby a bottle of formula a day the past few weeks, I have “failed” to breast-feed my child. If you gave your child a taste of rice cereal the day before her six month birthday, you, too, failed to breast-feed.
Why not just go ahead and title the article, “Despite Having Been Given Pamphlet After Pamphlet and Shown Poster After Poster of Suspiciously Blissful-Looking Women Nursing Their Not-At-All-Distracted, Fidgety, or Biting Babies, Moms Across the Nation Curiously Remain Too Egocentric to Prioritize Their Babies Over Their Own Selfish Desires 100% of the Time”?
Tell me that the "F" stands for "Fuck you, NY Times." It'd make me day.
ReplyDeleteAlso: ever notice that the breasts and airbrushed to perfection. Breastfeeding just isn't all that gorgeous!