OK, the last option was actually a joke, although I vaguely remember putting stickers on my parent's car that they lent me when I was in college.
I have a breastfeeding advocacy bumper sticker on my car. I always felt it was one of the more innocuous ones. Oops, that just reminded me of why I had 6 options at first--maybe you wouldn't put one on because you would be afraid someone might target your car somehow. That is my fear whenever I put any kind of bumper sticker on with a message, but I drove around with pink triangles and lavender lambdas on my car for a long time with no problems.
Oh well, I couldn't remember what my 6th option was so I cut it back to 5.
My sticker says Nurse a child Nurse a nation. I've always wondered how I would explain the meaning if someone asked me what it meant. I think of it as generally advocating breastfeeding with the idea of every person counts and it all starts on an individual basis, yada yada. I wouldn't feel comfortable at putting the one on my car that says Eat at Mom's and has a bottle in a circle with a slash through it because I'm afraid someone might take it personally if they had to use formula. But would they take it anymore personally than the one I have? I just got to thinking about breastfeeding advocacy in general. It is one of those issues that seems to be rather controversial which was something that took me by surprise when I first realized it. I remember after my daughter was born and I posted on an AOL birth month/year board, lots of moms had things in their signatures that specified if they breastfed or used cloth diapers. I didn't do that myself, for some reason, but I liked seeing them as an identification and camraderie thing. There was a backlash where other people would put that they were proud formula feeding, disposable diapering moms, so the other sigs must have pushed some buttons.
I think that people put bumper stickers on their cars for various reasons--they want to identify themselves as members of a group, they want to show support for something they like (band, football team, military unit and so on), or an idea they believe (religious, philosophical). They have specific opinions on politics that they want to get across. Or they want to put something humorous and/or insulting on their cars. I feel like a breastfeeding advocacy sticker is an identifier for me, but lately since I'm not even breastfeeding anymore I've been wanting to take it off. I'm thinking I'd rather have an AP advocacy sticker, or one for LLL or something like that.
I have a breastfeeding advocacy bumper sticker on my car. I always felt it was one of the more innocuous ones. Oops, that just reminded me of why I had 6 options at first--maybe you wouldn't put one on because you would be afraid someone might target your car somehow. That is my fear whenever I put any kind of bumper sticker on with a message, but I drove around with pink triangles and lavender lambdas on my car for a long time with no problems.
Oh well, I couldn't remember what my 6th option was so I cut it back to 5.
My sticker says Nurse a child Nurse a nation. I've always wondered how I would explain the meaning if someone asked me what it meant. I think of it as generally advocating breastfeeding with the idea of every person counts and it all starts on an individual basis, yada yada. I wouldn't feel comfortable at putting the one on my car that says Eat at Mom's and has a bottle in a circle with a slash through it because I'm afraid someone might take it personally if they had to use formula. But would they take it anymore personally than the one I have? I just got to thinking about breastfeeding advocacy in general. It is one of those issues that seems to be rather controversial which was something that took me by surprise when I first realized it. I remember after my daughter was born and I posted on an AOL birth month/year board, lots of moms had things in their signatures that specified if they breastfed or used cloth diapers. I didn't do that myself, for some reason, but I liked seeing them as an identification and camraderie thing. There was a backlash where other people would put that they were proud formula feeding, disposable diapering moms, so the other sigs must have pushed some buttons.
I think that people put bumper stickers on their cars for various reasons--they want to identify themselves as members of a group, they want to show support for something they like (band, football team, military unit and so on), or an idea they believe (religious, philosophical). They have specific opinions on politics that they want to get across. Or they want to put something humorous and/or insulting on their cars. I feel like a breastfeeding advocacy sticker is an identifier for me, but lately since I'm not even breastfeeding anymore I've been wanting to take it off. I'm thinking I'd rather have an AP advocacy sticker, or one for LLL or something like that.
: What's the point of having bumpers if not to carry your bumper stickers? 
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