Yet
lactivists feel no compunction about behaving like know - it - alls and doing the exact same thing.
It would be more appropriate to call them «lactivist - friendly» since the only thing they reliably do is make
lactivists feel good about themselves and their own choices.
Not exact matches
It's a troublesome
feeling because we're all supposed to be good little
lactivists who never speak unless we're spoken to, and yet by doing so we allow misinformation to be spread like wildfire when we had a chance to correct it... then when we do it only results in more defensiveness, often regardless of how you phrase it.
But amidst the plethora of substantial, legitimate information, there is also a cacophony of foreboding, judgmental voices: «
lactivist» blogs that compare formula feeding to child abuse; public message boards with calls to action - «I automatically
feel sorry for the baby sitting in the cart in the formula aisle as their parent loads up on cans of the stuff.
Perhaps
lactivists cage their older children while nursing the baby, but most women don't
feel that is appropriate.
Thank you for taking the REAL feminist stance that women should be free to choose whatever way of birthing and infant feeding they
feel is best for them, not just the NCB /
lactivist approved choice.
How are FFing parents supposed to
feel approaching a stall with a
lactivist making a sign of protest out the front in the name of «promoting» breastfeeding.
It makes me so angry when
lactivists parachute in here and claim that the reason that I'm angry is because I don't «own my choices» or that I
feel «guilty.»
Then I
feel guilt for
feeling shame because I'm a
lactivist for heaven's sake!
I
feel like many «
lactivists» are often so intent on convincing women that they can succeed at breastfeeding that they don't realize how much pressure that kind of support can create.
ELISHA: When I first heard
lactivist my initial
feeling were someone that supports breastfeeding moms.
I still
feel when somebody describes me as a
lactivist I am not going to be upset because I still support breastfeeding moms.
A popular sentiment in «
lactivist» circles is «nobody can make you
feel guilt, if you
feel guilt it's on your own and you must have a reason to.»
I
feel it is my duty as a
lactivist to make sure everybody knows about this wonderful coverage.
I have found that the Naural birthers, AP, and
lactivists that I have met over the years actually have personality and / or life style deficiencies that cause them to need to
feel like better parents, due to their own underlying
feelings of parental inadequacy, either real or imagined.
Both militant
lactivists and racists
feel themselves under siege even when they're not.