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Professor Breast Feeds In Class

What kind of working mother hasn't made sick baby care arrangements in advance, just in case?

And on what planet is breastfeeding in the workplace, especially by someone in charge, okay?
 
"Professor, I'm not feeling very good either. Move over kid."
 
I breast fed my daughter and I know I sure as hell couldn't take her to work with me and feed her at my desk while working. WTH....
 
Is she hot?
 
She was a real ninny, her personal life has no business in the classroom. I had a strict rule "no kids" period. All the student paid tuition and I had a responsibility to teach a very difficult class. Although when I taught at an all girls school i would bring y guitar and sing some lessons....;)

Anyway, her is her side of the story..."So here’s the story, internet: I fed my sick baby during feminist anthropology class without disrupting the lecture so as to not have to cancel the first day of class. I doubt anyone saw my nipple, because I’m pretty good at covering it. But if they did, they now know that I too, a university professor, like them, have nipples. Or at least that I have one."

Exposéing My Breasts on the Internet » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
 
One wonders what's next? Changing soiled nappies in front of the classroom ?

Where do we draw the line ????

Nowhere?

These people think they own the world!
 
Thank you Connery, for providing a link to an awesome rebuttal of the non-news represented by the OP article.
 
Mya said:
One wonders what's next? Changing soiled nappies in front of the classroom ?

Where do we draw the line ????

Nowhere?

These people think they own the world!
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The professor has stated that her choices were cancelling the first day of class, or taking her baby to class with her. Perhaps your choice would have been to cancel class. Hers was not, and it was a reasonable choice. She states that now that this has become an overblown idiotic controversy, she would have decided to cancel the first day of class. I think that would have been a shame, but people's appetite for salacious news trumps common sense.
 
Mya said:
One wonders what's next? Changing soiled nappies in front of the classroom ?

Where do we draw the line ????

Nowhere?

These people think they own the world!
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Who are these people?
 
Dezaad said:
The professor has stated that her choices were cancelling the first day of class, or taking her baby to class with her. Perhaps your choice would have been to cancel class. Hers was not, and it was a reasonable choice. She states that now that this has become an overblown idiotic controversy, she would have decided to cancel the first day of class. I think that would have been a shame, but people's appetite for salacious news trumps common sense.
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Breast feed in front of the whole class while she is giving a lesson? I don''t think so.

That is asking too much of her students.

Cancel the first day of class by all means.

Get paid for it too.... stay at home.
 
Connery said:
Who are these people?
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I guess I will answer my own question. These people are those who think the rules do not apply to them whether by parental responsibility, infirmity and/or social position. They like to make the rest of the world bend to their very special requirements. This woman had a contract to deliver a product she did not have a clause to allowed her to expose her breast and feed her child. She delivered a very poor product to these hard working students who are paying an exorbitant tuition for a scintilla of information coupled with the sounds of a sick child.

The worst part would be if in class the baby had to let a poop fly. The fetid stench would wafted and floated through the lecture hall fouling the academic setting and causing some like my self to become teary eyed and looking at his neighbor with an accusatory glance, a shake of the head and a scowl.
 
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Mya said:
Breast feed in front of the whole class while she is giving a lesson? I don''t think so.

That is asking too much of her students.

Cancel the first day of class by all means.

Get paid for it too.... stay at home.
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Asking too much of her students in what way? I find some people's penchant for discomfort bizarre. I would have gotten over it in about 20 seconds.
 
Wait, I think I liked posts that I thought were joking. hahaha
 
I fed my sick baby during feminist anthropology class...
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Feminist anthropology? This offends me more than the breastfeeding, which I wouldn't care much about as long as she could still deliver an effective lecture while suckling the kid.
 
ooookay... unusual, but really not a big deal. I'm more annoyed at her response to the controversy than anything else. She went after the school newspaper in an unprofessional, confrontational manner. That's my biggest issue with it. The breast-feeding? I don't care, it's a natural thing to do and, according to the article, she's not the first professor at AU to have done it in class. The sick kid in the classroom? Meh, maybe not the best decision, but it didn't seem to be that much of a distraction according to student accounts. Much ado about not much, I say.
 
Mya said:
Breast feed in front of the whole class while she is giving a lesson? I don''t think so.

That is asking too much of her students.

Cancel the first day of class by all means.

Get paid for it too.... stay at home.
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The first day of class doesn't have a lesson. You hand out the syllabus and talk about that. It's a snoozefest. Also, it's an anthropology course.
 
This is mild compared to the parents potty training their child at their restaurant table.

Why exactly is breastfeeding so offensive? Seems kind of natural to me.
 
The assistant anthropology professor at American University was about to begin teaching “Sex, Gender & Culture”
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i suppose it could be argued that this activity was somewhat relevant to the lesson.
 
Okay, couple of things:

1. Given the baby's age, the fever was probably related to teething. But even if it wasn't.....

2. Who takes care of the baby when it isn't sick? Most reputably daycare centers have "sick rooms" for ill children or offer partnerships with day cares that offer them (at least here, anyway).

3. I don't even care about the breast feeding. The issue here is that the professor was distracted, created a distraction, and put her child at risk (paperclip in the mouth?!) to avoid missing a lecture. I'm willing to bet there are options available for professors who must miss a lecture period. I've had multiple on-site classes rescheduled/cancelled because of professor illness or emergencies.

4. Sounds like the woman lacks common sense. Why is she teaching?
 
Well, I care about the breast feeding. I also care about the baby being there -- as I said, part of parenting is making safe, quality arrangements in advance for working parents with sick kids.

But to breasfeed in front of a class? I find that so unacceptable. I don't care if it's natural (BTW, I breast fed). What I care about is introducing a private, sensational moment into a public arena where it most clearly does not belong.

I don't understand why these breastfeeding zealots are so anxious to include everyone else in their experience, with or without their consent.
 
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