Breastfeeding is now chestfeeding

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Aunt Marg said:
Reminds me of the stupidity that unfolded 10 or so years ago, where "Merry" Christmas was out, and the politically correct greeting was "Happy" Christmas.

Well let me tell you, not once did I say "Happy" Christmas, and in fact, I said "Merry" Christmas even more and louder while out in public, just because... because I was just looking for someone to call me on it so I could give them a royal piece of my mind.
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I just want to bring up 2 points from my perspective.

1. I always thought that Happy Holidays was the quicker abbreviated form of saying, " Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year". Seriously, I did. I've been on a one person crusade to get Boxing Day to be recognized holiday here in the US, mostly because I've always been in favor of any day I'd get paid to stay home, especially since I could use an extra day to recover from the relatives.

2. I have always liked the saying Happy Christmas over Merry Christmas as I do wish someone to be happy, and I have never been nor known any sober person to have ever been merry*.

* Well, perhaps J. Edgar Hoover, but then that's a really bad pun...
 

mellowyellow said:
It must be my age, but this sounds really stupid to me.
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How sad!

ā€œAre you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?ā€ (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird).

This article might help people understand and react with empathy instead of derision.

https://www.mother.ly/life/what-is-chestfeeding
 

Actually they've not been 'told'to change those words, because if they changed it in the very small seaside community of Brighton they'd have to change it in the whole of the uk. It's simply suggested that it might be a ''good idea''... so I doubt it will happen..

Just an added thought... would this also mean they'd have to change Mothers' & Fathers' day to birthing parent Day...? :LOL:
 
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Rosemarie said:
You're the sad one for defending such lunacy.
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How is ā€œchest feedingā€ impacting your life? Why do you call it ā€œlunacy?ā€ There is room for all sorts of people on this planet. Everyone, regardless of their colour, their sexual orientation or financial restrictions, has a right to feel comfortable.

No one is better than the other. I do not castigate people for the way nature intended them to be. Are you so totally free from all imperfections that you are able to hold these views?

"Love is the absence of judgment" Dalai Lama
 
Well there goes my faux pas. Years ago my wife and I were at dance practice with our teacher Annie. She had choreographed a rumba routine for us to dance to in an upcoming dance competition. Part of the routine we had to hold hands and walk backwards four steps while Annie stood beside us calling out the timing. Not seeing her and concentrating on the move, my free hand was outstretched as Annie had said. At the last pace back my free hand, I blush thinking of this, completely encompassed Annie's right boob.

I was horrified, I took her left hand in mine, stood beside her and gently tapped my forehead on her shoulder, saying, "I'm so humbly sorry." Annie was a star, she brought her right hand to the back of my head, pulled me close and told me to forget it. She held me for a second or two and then released me, but she got one last laugh out of it when she said: "I bet you felt a right tit there!"

Not anymore now it's chesticles or whatever the buzz word is.
 
Chest milk? Well, we have coconut milk, and in some "South Pacific" productions, a guy does a number with coconut halves strapped to his chest to mock-simulate breasts. It all gets twisted and confusing, but human discomfort with language goes way back. I'm reminded that Victorians felt uncomfortable referring to furniture "legs," and some even draped piano legs for that reason... šŸ˜ø

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Oris Borloff said:
I just want to bring up 2 points from my perspective.

1. I always thought that Happy Holidays was the quicker abbreviated form of saying, " Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year". Seriously, I did. I've been on a one person crusade to get Boxing Day to be recognized holiday here in the US, mostly because I've always been in favor of any day I'd get paid to stay home, especially since I could use an extra day to recover from the relatives.

2. I have always liked the saying Happy Christmas over Merry Christmas as I do wish someone to be happy, and I have never been nor known any sober person to have ever been merry*.

* Well, perhaps J. Edgar Hoover, but then that's a really bad pun...
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I do appreciate your take on it, Oris.

Being old-fashioned as I am, the "Happy" thing rubbed me the wrong way... as in others attempting to step on my toes and manipulate me. Seems sayings and terms and actions and things that have been tradition and around forever, is what society kooks like to go after.

Instead of gaining ground, I feel society is loosing ground courtesy of the numbskulls of the world.
 
Dana said:
How is ā€œchest feedingā€ impacting your life? Why do you call it ā€œlunacy?ā€ There is room for all sorts of people on this planet. Everyone, regardless of their colour, their sexual orientation or financial restrictions, has a right to feel comfortable.

No one is better than the other. I do not castigate people for the way nature intended them to be. Are you so totally free from all imperfections that you are able to hold these views?

"Love is the absence of judgment" Dalai Lama
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Yes indeed, and for the kooks behind such lunacy there's a special room, it's called a rubber-room.
 
Dana said:
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How sad!

ā€œAre you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?ā€ (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird).

This article might help people understand and react with empathy instead of derision.

https://www.mother.ly/life/what-is-chestfeeding
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Not likely.

Extract from the article: "It is everyone's responsibilityā€”and honorā€”to support them in this choice".

I don't support any of it, never have, never will, and I'm far from alone in my stance on it. The end.
 
OK, is breast cancer now chest cancer? Do we have chest buddies instead of bosom buddies?

Political correctness isn't new. Working at a newspaper 50 years ago, we were "encouraged" by the Department of Labor to substitute "Blue Collar Worker Supervisor" for "Foreman" and "Craft and Kindred Worker" for "Craftsman" in help wanted ads,, among other inanities. We didn't.
 

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