Breastfeeding: "if you want something bad enough, it will happen"

[ailbhe]

I am livid. I've been angry about this on and off since last night sometime. Apparently if someone wants to pump enough to feed their baby badly enough, they can do it! If someone wants to breastfeed badly enough, they can do it! If it doesn't happen you mustn't really have wanted it, you selfish, inconsiderate failure, you.

I am spitting mad.

No, wanting isn't enough sometimes. You can want more breast tissue all you like; it won't make it grow. You can want functioning ovaries - it won't necessarily make them pop out viable eggs. Plenty of people really, really want to live, and die anyway. Wanting isn't all it takes.

And it's disgusting and callous to say that it is.

Comments

[ailbhe]

It's infelicitous phrasing, I think - look at the huge circular "I hate judgemental people because judging is wrong" arguments I've had with her.

[muirichinnahali.livejournal.com]

i stayed out of that one. it was ridiculous... i even had my husband read that and he just rolled his eyes