I'm just now getting back to my project. I think I mentioned before that I was planning to post my various drafts as I went for feedback and to make sure I don't offend the grammar police. :LOL Thank goodness for insomnia or I'd never get a single sentence written, I get so distracted. So I'm bringing this in front of you all for motivation as well as feedback.
I know it's been a while since I was a daily visitor here, so for those moms that weren't around when we first discussed it, I'll try to dig up a link to my previous post that showed how this came about.
(found it!) http://www.mothering.com/discussions...1&page=1&pp=20
Ok this is a few paragraphs under the heading "A Disapproving Culture", a brief mention of why it's become so taboo to NIP and why I'm doing this project.
Of course this is a rough draft, and this portion is meant to be short, just to give it a nod and get on with the action. It's an introduction essentially. I am writing this trying to keep in mind that it may take the form of either written media, visual media or spoken material. (gah, me doing public speaking???
We'll work on that!)
1. A Disapproving Culture
a. why our culture is uncomfortable with NIP
I think most women understand that sexualization of the breast, and its relentless portrayal as an exclusively sexual part in the media, clearly creates issues when women try to defy the stereotype and use their breasts for something other than wet tshirt contests and beer ads.
We end up with comments about nursing and nursing in public being “disgusting” or “perverted”. We end up with people who assign sexual attributes to an activity that is not sexual. We end up with moms who feel shamed for the mere thought of breastfeeding in front of other people. In some cases, we even end up with moms who won’t nurse even in front of their own husband, or worse, we end up degrading the act of feeding our infant from a normal biological process to an act of consumerism, abandoning breastfeeding altogether.
I am sure there are those who would focus their efforts on changing the perceptions of those who are opposed to NIP, in order to make it less difficult and stressful for moms to do so. I will leave that up to those with more patience and tact than myself. Realistically, there are just those who will not change their minds no matter what.
I’m not concerned with them other than communicating to nursing moms how to deal with their disapproval. What I want to do here is to empower moms to NIP without fear or embarrassment in spite of the potential for disapproval. We can’t wait for the opposition to come around. Our babies need to be breastfed now.
In rejecting the inappropriate sense of shame induced by a culture that eroticizes breasts, we will bring nursing back to the normal everyday, everywhere parenting activity it is, allow more babies the gift of being breastfed, and give upcoming generations the opportunity to adopt a new, healthier view of breastfeeding.
ok there it is. Is it clear what I am trying to get at?
I know it's been a while since I was a daily visitor here, so for those moms that weren't around when we first discussed it, I'll try to dig up a link to my previous post that showed how this came about.
(found it!) http://www.mothering.com/discussions...1&page=1&pp=20
Ok this is a few paragraphs under the heading "A Disapproving Culture", a brief mention of why it's become so taboo to NIP and why I'm doing this project.
Of course this is a rough draft, and this portion is meant to be short, just to give it a nod and get on with the action. It's an introduction essentially. I am writing this trying to keep in mind that it may take the form of either written media, visual media or spoken material. (gah, me doing public speaking???
We'll work on that!)1. A Disapproving Culture
a. why our culture is uncomfortable with NIP
I think most women understand that sexualization of the breast, and its relentless portrayal as an exclusively sexual part in the media, clearly creates issues when women try to defy the stereotype and use their breasts for something other than wet tshirt contests and beer ads.
We end up with comments about nursing and nursing in public being “disgusting” or “perverted”. We end up with people who assign sexual attributes to an activity that is not sexual. We end up with moms who feel shamed for the mere thought of breastfeeding in front of other people. In some cases, we even end up with moms who won’t nurse even in front of their own husband, or worse, we end up degrading the act of feeding our infant from a normal biological process to an act of consumerism, abandoning breastfeeding altogether.
I am sure there are those who would focus their efforts on changing the perceptions of those who are opposed to NIP, in order to make it less difficult and stressful for moms to do so. I will leave that up to those with more patience and tact than myself. Realistically, there are just those who will not change their minds no matter what.
I’m not concerned with them other than communicating to nursing moms how to deal with their disapproval. What I want to do here is to empower moms to NIP without fear or embarrassment in spite of the potential for disapproval. We can’t wait for the opposition to come around. Our babies need to be breastfed now.
In rejecting the inappropriate sense of shame induced by a culture that eroticizes breasts, we will bring nursing back to the normal everyday, everywhere parenting activity it is, allow more babies the gift of being breastfed, and give upcoming generations the opportunity to adopt a new, healthier view of breastfeeding.
ok there it is. Is it clear what I am trying to get at?
