Bitchfight in parenting101

[conuly]

As we all know, pacifiers can lead to nipple confusion and interfere with the nursing relationship. They also can contribute to ear infections and cause parents to pay less attention to a child (since the child is always quiet). Somehow, this all blew up. Everywhere.

I wouldn't mind, really, except I post on that community, and, as most people realize, I'm never having kids. Or at least, probably never. I give a little leeway for insanity. And then, there's this one idiot... First saying "if you're not going to breastfeed, why do you have breasts?" And then, when I mention that I, personally, am not having kids, 1. demanding to know why I'm reading the posts there and 2. repeating the asinine question.

*rolls her eyes* Sorry, I wasn't aware that this was a closed community. OH CRAP! It's not!

And of course, she said "breasts aren't for men to play with" Well, neither are hands, but.... At any rate, nobody plays with my breasts, they'd hurt too much. NOT that it's any of her fucking business.

Can you tell I'm pissed? And yet, she's STILL better, in my view, than the one who said she couldn't "think of nothing more unnatural than breastfeeding". Um, excuse me? What about FORMULA feeding? Television? Computers? Condoms? Light bulbs? Books? Clothing? Shoes?

*sighs*

I fear for the world.

Comments

Oy.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

"if you're not going to breastfeed, why do you have breasts?"

Because you totally grew them on purpose. Yes, that's what they're for. No, one's life is not meaningless if one does not put one's boobs to their primary purpose.

"think of nothing more unnatural than breastfeeding"

...An emissary from Opposite Planet, is this?

I don't get some people's obsessive equation of natural = good and good = natural, anyway. Atomic bombs, toasters, antibacterial soap, gay bondage porn, and cheesy religious poetry are all not to be found in "nature", people; please to not be simplistic.

Re: Oy.

[conuly]

Yes, and somebody actually TRIED to get her to come to her senses... "Not ONE thing more unnatural" and she didn't get it. Let's have a list, shall we?

Things found in nature:

Marijuana
Wild almonds (full of cyanide)
Wolves
Breastfeeding
Alcohol
Rain
Hornets

Things not found in nature:

Atomic weapons
Domesticated almonds (edible)
Dogs
Baby formula
Wine
Umbrellas
Bug spray

Re: Oy.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Now look. Fruit juice + yeast = wine. Usually it's still inside the fruit, but hey. Nothing unnatural here.

Dogs? There are dogs in nature, just the breeds are artificially maintained. (I contend that Man is not apart from and separate from Nature and thus "domestication" != "unnatural". And before you say anything about Man doing the synthesizing, remember there's a difference between shaping clay and firing it.)

Of course, my usual reply to the idiots that think natural=good and herbal/organic=harmless is to cite sodium, cyanide and water hemlock--natural, "organic" and herbal, in that order, and none of them anything you want to mess around with. (Water hemlock root has the most fascinating yet repulsive symptoms when ingested.)

Re: Oy.

[conuly]

Wine is DEFINITELY a human invention. There's no yeast in fruits.

Dogs. I don't know. I'll take the opposite view that domestication IS unnatural. Let's compromise. If the species can't survive in the wild, it's unnatural.

Re: Oy.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

I'll accept your compromise.

You see, wild yeasts live on the skins of fruits, which is one reason a fruit which is cracked or split will go bad faster. (You've heard of sourdough? Originally wild yeasts.)