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Re: (Kinda) breastfeeding and school videos

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am...@aol.com

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Nov 5, 2005, 12:28:20 PM11/5/05
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On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 11:55:15 -0500, in misc.consumers.frugal-living "Don K"
<dk@dont_bother_me.com> wrote:

>"Buttercup----AKA----CCB" <butt...@powerpuff.com> wrote in message
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>> DH is a high school science teacher. Right now, he's video-taping a TV show on epidemiology for
>> class, and it showed a woman (duh!) breastfeeding an infant. No nipple (nor much breast at all)
>> is shown. There was no mention of the breastfeeding. It was just a general shot of life in this
>> African village.
>
>If the show doesn't mention anything about it then he should take it
>out unless he plans to say something about it himself.
>
>If the show was about epidemiology in the US I doubt they would
>show a nursing mother without tying it into the subject.
>
>Don
>


That's how babies eat.

am...@aol.com

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Nov 5, 2005, 1:35:59 PM11/5/05
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On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 13:16:23 -0500, in misc.consumers.frugal-living "Don K"
<dk@dont_bother_me.com> wrote:

><am...@aol.com> wrote in message news:8tqpm1d1mu4llggia...@4ax.com...

>Right. If the point is to show how various people eat, then it fits.
>If the point is to discuss relative benefits from an epidemiologic
>view, then it fits.
>
>If there's no tie-in to the topic, then it's just another gratuitously
>invasive image exploiting people of a different culture, IMO. I'm not trying
>to stir up breastfeeding militants so I'm not posting to the added group.
>
>Don
>


So no one can ever be shown eating in a movie?

Cocoamum

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Nov 5, 2005, 1:42:59 PM11/5/05
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am...@aol.com skrev:

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> So no one can ever be shown eating in a movie?

Especially no Chinese people as they eat differently: gratuitously
invasive image of people using chop-sticks.

Yuck!!

(just kidding)

If you find breastfeeding invasive you have a sick mind.

'To the pure all things are pure'

Tine, Denmark, where a breastfeeding baby is no big deal

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