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gryphonseggThis is not the awesome post. This is. Ana Mardoll at Slacktiverse (the blog that used to be Slacktivist until Fred moved his blogging to Patheos and the commenters started running the old site as a group blog) spews some hot fire of truth at the internets about trusting women to act like human beings and "not be the hysterical straw-people they are so frequently portrayed as in the media." Ana explicitly extends trusting women to make reasonable choices that are comprehensible to the human mind even to choices involving pregnancy, childbirth, breast-feeding, and child-rearing-- the very subjects about which our misogynist culture trains everyone to think of women as being the most irrational and incapable of making good decisions.
I recommend reading the comments, with the caveat that Rodeo Bob is in there mansplaining to The Ladies that mothers simply can't be trusted to make decisions about how long to breastfeed because breastfeeding causes hormones, and hormones cause feelings, and feelings make women irrational, so some women might start breastfeeding and NEVER STOP, and besides, breastfeeding excludes fathers and prevents children from making eye contact with their fathers and learning to pass condiments, so we should really be asking WHAT ABOUT THE MENZ! I still recommend them, though, because Ana and real life breastfeeding moms and a man whose struggles with depression have left him with an interesting perspective on those supposedly bad hormones and feelings all spit more fire of truth in response.
I recommend reading the comments, with the caveat that Rodeo Bob is in there mansplaining to The Ladies that mothers simply can't be trusted to make decisions about how long to breastfeed because breastfeeding causes hormones, and hormones cause feelings, and feelings make women irrational, so some women might start breastfeeding and NEVER STOP, and besides, breastfeeding excludes fathers and prevents children from making eye contact with their fathers and learning to pass condiments, so we should really be asking WHAT ABOUT THE MENZ! I still recommend them, though, because Ana and real life breastfeeding moms and a man whose struggles with depression have left him with an interesting perspective on those supposedly bad hormones and feelings all spit more fire of truth in response.