you know what? grow up. you nasty. ([info]gloriousburdens) wrote in [info]booju_mooju,
@ 2006-11-27 20:45:00
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dear booj,

Should women who choose to breastfeed their walking, talking children compare that shit to Rosa Parks? Edit: Dammit, now she's deleted. Ah well. The stupid remains.

Seriously. Sticking your titty in your kids' mouths for a long time does not make you a civil rights activist.

I've c&p'd the interesting part (her post is long and wordy and blah blah blah blah):

I realised every time I nursed my toddler in public, I was indeed acting like Rosa Parks.  And if approached to put a blanket on my head, I would indeed 'do a Rosa Parks' and refuse to give up my seat!  Let them throw me off the bus!  Me and my seat on the bus were staying put - I'd nurse my toddler on the damn bus.

As soon as I thought it - another phrase slipped into my mind: please don't throw me off the bus.  Don't put me through it.  Don't make me feel bad.  I may not be as strong as Rosa with my child in my arms.  I may be prepared for it to happen every time my child nurses, but that don't mean I want it to.


Boob "nazis" need to run some serious damage control - one of your bitches has lost her ever-lovin mind.

Edit: Apparently she cross-posted the bullshit. Thanks, gingersomething.  Awww, breastfeeding got all cracked areola on us and BALEETED.


Also, this paragraph? It's weird as hell and I don't care what any of you have to say about it. Does she write bad breastfeeding fanfic on purpose?

Last night, the fever started.  His nose started streaming and he was coughing and sneezing.   Between 10pm and midnight, a very unwell little boy emerged from my bouncing toddler.  At 4am, a screaming, terrifed, shrieking baby was in my arms, crying.  Can't breath properly, burning up with fever, helpmehelpmhelpmhelpme cries.  So I helped.  I did what I've been doing for hours - I held him and I nursed.  I poured perfect rehydration fluids and perfect sick boy nutrition into his body.  As it was taken down into him, it flooded him with anti-bodies to whatever bug he had, as my adult body has been making them in response, unnoticed, since he picked up the bug in the first place.  I also soothed his soul, as he fought to clear the mucous in his nose so he could still nurse: I soothed his distress and told him he was important enough to have this primal comfort.  The skin contact, the act of suckling, flooded his mind and body with opiates, and he calmed.  As he calmed, the act of suckling him flooded my brain with chemicals that aided me: I coped better with the lack of sleep, my blood pressure reduced and my general feeling of wellness increased.  The distress cycle between us was buffered by chemcial interaction on both sides, and we both felt happier. 

Jeez, lady, just get a dildo.




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[info]thirty_three
2006-11-28 02:47 am UTC (link)
This is going to be my new favorite post.

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[info]gloriousburdens
2006-11-28 03:35 am UTC (link)
Oh, yours too?

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[info]joybeans
2006-11-28 02:51 am UTC (link)
first page, ftw

This is going to be epic.

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[info]grypx
2006-11-28 02:52 am UTC (link)
commenting in legendary drama post

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[info]gloriousburdens
2006-11-28 03:36 am UTC (link)
lmao. it's full of LULZ, but i don't think it'll be legendary drama.

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[info]ladyartemisa
2006-11-28 02:52 am UTC (link)
oh man.. this is gonna be fun.

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[info]cynica
2006-11-28 02:54 am UTC (link)
lol Rosa Parks.
TITS=WORLD PEACE, K?

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[info]julierocket
2006-11-28 03:17 am UTC (link)
Tits for Peace! That should be turned into a hippie rally. And um, it should be held in my room. One at a time.

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[info]gingersomething
2006-11-28 02:54 am UTC (link)
That same post in [info]breastfeeding blew my mind. Some of the comment exchanges were just INSANE.

Highlight:

It's a similar situation, but rather than affecting just one race, it's potentially affecting the whole human population.



A couple of us pointed out how offensive her post was, and she actually argued with us. I really tried to have faith that she was just ignorant, but nope.


Dumb bitches like that make white people look bad.

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[info]gingersomething
2006-11-28 02:57 am UTC (link)
Well, I guess she is ignorant. I meant ignorant of the fact that her post was offensive. But no, she really believes breastfeeding is totally just like civil rights.

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(no subject) - [info]ladyvoldything, 2006-11-28 03:17 am UTC
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[info]merlyn4401
2006-11-28 02:54 am UTC (link)
Oh I dunno. I suppose if breatfeeding moms were beat up on a daily basis, or barred entry to public places, or forced to sit in a seperate breastfeeding section that was seperate, but not equal, or lynched, or had dogs set on them, or...

Where was I?

Oh yes, I totally see the comparison. Really. Seriously.

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[info]ladyartemisa
2006-11-28 02:56 am UTC (link)
I totally saw an evil police officer turn on a firehose on a woman feeding her infant once. Breastfeeding mothers should be saints.. or something.

*rolls eyes*

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[info]kisstheground
2006-11-28 02:54 am UTC (link)
i just want to comment to be a part of it.
YOU MUST BOW TO MY BOOBS OK?

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[info]ashleylewan
2006-11-28 02:55 am UTC (link)
Yeah, that is a pretty random (and failed) attempt at a character comparison...

She's in a few communities I belong to. She seems like a really nice person, and gives great advice to new moms that are struggling with breastfeeding. But this is totally weird. It's one thing to think things like this in your head, but to put it in writing and actually think that it might make sense to other people? These are cases when it's best just to keep it in your own journal, IMO.

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[info]simplifying
2006-11-28 02:56 am UTC (link)
LOL. That's some epic self-importance right there.

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[info]merlyn4401
2006-11-28 03:02 am UTC (link)
I was thinking that. How freaking full of yourself do you have to be? Madonna complex, anyone?

*Madonna as in the Virgin Mary, not the pop star.

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[info]niki090909
2006-11-28 02:57 am UTC (link)
LOL!

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[info]rovylern
2006-11-28 02:57 am UTC (link)
SO bookmarking this to cheer me up after work tomorrow. Bring on the dramaz!

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[info]yoursoulkitchen
2006-11-28 02:59 am UTC (link)
that post makes my head hurt.

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[info]iftherebethorns
2006-11-28 03:00 am UTC (link)
what.

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[info]gloriousburdens
2006-11-28 03:02 am UTC (link)
Are you stunned at the stupidity of her post, or do you have a question about mine?

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[info]homefly
2006-11-28 03:03 am UTC (link)
I take sh*t on a near daily basis for nursing my 15 month old. However, it's not even in the same eff'ing ballpark as civil rights and Rosa Parks. I think of it as more like the bullcrap I used to take for being a goth chick wierdo, being stared at and looked down upon whenever I went out of the house. But no, not even in the same ballpark as Rosa Parks.

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a link to increase the drama
[info]gingersomething
2006-11-28 03:06 am UTC (link)
http://community.livejournal.com/breastfeeding/3662786.html


She cross-posted this shit everywhere.

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Re: a link to increase the drama
[info]iftherebethorns
2006-11-28 03:07 am UTC (link)
I can't see it!

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Re: a link to increase the drama - [info]ladyvoldything, 2006-11-28 03:19 am UTC
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[info]erosissa
2006-11-28 03:07 am UTC (link)
I don't think breastfeeding relates to civil rights in general for reasons other people have pointed out - breastfeeding moms are not abused, in fear for their safety, etc. - hell, most people won't even say anything, because in general people are spineless wusses - especially around scary, evil boobies. I understand part of this person's sentiment, though - that it's hard to stick up for this thing that's important to her, and that indeed, some people have to be the trailblazers out front (although, frankly, most of that work has been done already - this person missed the bus). I don't think negatively of her, however far she's stretching the analogy. She's so passionate about the care of her child she comes off like a twit on the internet - not much of a crime, in my book.

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[info]ms_cantrell
2006-11-28 03:09 am UTC (link)
good for her for doing what she believes in, but nursing in public with some boob showing is not akin Rosa's awe-inspiring act of civil disobediance.

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[info]galadrine
2006-11-28 03:09 am UTC (link)
That should totally be crossed posted to stupid_free.

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[info]gloriousburdens
2006-11-28 03:11 am UTC (link)
Already has been.

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[info]pester
2006-11-28 03:11 am UTC (link)
Nah. Breastfeeding mums are more like the product of a Abraham Lincoln-Mother Theresa-Marge Simpson three-way. Well spoken, saintly, and long-suffering too.

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[info]red_ervish
2006-11-28 03:16 am UTC (link)
Best characterization I've heard

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[info]lump_of_clay
2006-11-28 03:12 am UTC (link)
Did I read it wrong? Cause when I read the post, she was only using the Rosa Parks thing because someone else used it first. Like "If you're going to call what that lady on the plane did as acting like Rosa Park, isn't that a good thing?" sort of attitude, not so much the 'Oh guess what! I'm like Rosa Parks!!' sort of one.

But maybe I'm reading it wrong.

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[info]mummygeorgie
2006-11-28 03:22 am UTC (link)
Yeh, that was how I read it.
And also, as a non-American myself (as is she), we don't 'get' a lot of the context of the history of racism in the US, the civil rights movement, etc.
(Although to me this means I wouldn't comment on it/bring it up, but I'm just throwing a reason out there for the seeming 'wtf' nature of that post.)

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[info]bicrim
2006-11-28 03:13 am UTC (link)
I do think that different kinds of discrimination are related to each other, and that the kind of misogyny that leads to a woman getting kicked off a plane for nursing is related to racism, classism, and homophobia. I also think that different oppressed groups "one-upping" each other about who is more oppressed is just what the majority wants them to do, and that instead of in-fighting, women, poor people, people of color, and gay people would do better to stand together as a cohesive whole and support each other.

That said, a middle class white woman comparing herself to a poor black woman is not likely to help anyone's cause. I mean, she could afford a plane ticket in the first place, ya know? White women absolutly have a place in any coalition of people working for change, but they do need to recognize their privledge to be effective and respected.

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Re: a link to increase the drama
[info]ladyvoldything
2006-11-28 03:38 am UTC (link)
I officially vote you to post this shit to boob_nazis.

Please? It'll bring on the drama llama in such a happy way! ^_^

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completely off-topic - [info]rovylern, 2006-11-28 07:56 pm UTC
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[info]lawngnome25
2006-11-28 03:13 am UTC (link)
Whoah. *boggle*

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[info]juss1ofdemdayz
2006-11-28 03:15 am UTC (link)
Wow. My 14 month old is and has always been exclusively breastfed. It is something important to me, BUT- in no way does it compare to Rosa Parks... lol

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I SO know what she means!
[info]julierocket
2006-11-28 03:15 am UTC (link)
One time I was in line at the grocery store and I went to grab a People Magazine in another aisle and when I came back, a black woman had taken my spot... putting me at the BACK OF THE LINE. I was bullshit about the blatant reverse racism that I had experienced and from that moment on I have been aware of the struggles I face at the hands of society everyday as a People Magazine reader. It's not fair how we are treated like second-class citizens! I was BORN with an addiction to pictures of Suri Cruise and Paris Hilton's crotch; I can't HELP it!!!

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Re: I SO know what she means!
[info]gloriousburdens
2006-11-28 03:30 am UTC (link)
This is beautiful, you know that?

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Can't. Breathe. - [info]i_dreamed_i_was, 2006-11-28 04:10 am UTC

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