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American University Prof Breastfeeds Sick Baby on First Day of Class — Appropriate? (Poll)

Sep. 11, 2012 6:17pm Jason Howerton

Late last month, an American University professor brought along her baby daughter to the first day of class and breastfed her while continuing to lecture and go over the syllabus for her “Sex, Gender & Culture” course. Now, let’s add some context to the story.

Assistant anthropology professor Adrienne Pine woke to find her daughter suffering from a fever and fearing she had no viable child-care alternatives, she decided to had no other choice but to bring her to class.

Throughout most of the session, the baby, dressed in a cute blue onesie, crawled on the floor when she wasn’t strapped onto Pine’s back, The Washington Post reports. At one point, the mother had to retrieve a paper clip from the baby’s mouth and direct her away from an electrical outlet.

Then the baby got restless and cranky at some point during the 75-minute class and, in front of 40 students, Pine let the baby girl latch onto her breast and began breastfeeding her, still lecturing and going over the syllabus. According to the professor, a teaching assistant also held and rocked the baby.

Pine thought nothing of the incident and left the classroom unfazed. Her students on the other hand, well, they made sure to spread the news about the strange opening-day of class on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.

After a student newspaper inquired about the incident, Pine grew frustrated and wrote an online essay titled “The Dialectics of Breastfeeding on Campus: Exposéing my Breasts on the Internet.” Pine wrote that she was “shocked and annoyed that this would be considered newsworthy” and argued her workplace was now “a hostile environment.”

The Washington Post has more on the fallout:

Now the campus community and others who have been following Pine’s story are debating whether the professor did the right thing by bringing her sick baby to the Aug. 28 class and breast-feeding her. They also are questioning her response, when she publicly upbraided student journalists and asserted that the tone of a reporter’s questions implied an “anti-woman” view.

On Tuesday, university officials issued a statement that appeared to convey disapproval.

“For the sake of the child and the public health of the campus community, when faced with the challenge of caring for a sick child in the case where backup childcare is not available, a faculty member should take earned leave and arrange for someone else to cover the class, not bring a sick child into the classroom,” the statement said.

The statement, e-mailed by Camille Lepre, a spokeswoman, indicated that the university follows federal and D.C. law for nursing mothers.

“A faculty member’s conduct in the classroom must be professional,” the statement said. “Faculty may maintain a focus on professional responsibilities in the classroom by taking advantage of the options the university provides, including reasonable break times, private areas for nursing mothers to express milk, and leave in the case of a sick child.”

The university’s statement also said Pine’s online essay was unprofessional and criticized the way she characterized American University students. Pine is still teaching at AU, now in her fourth year.

While Pine refused to respond to press inquiries, she, in her essay, on counterpunch.org sarcastically gave her view on the entire ordeal:

“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.”

The student newspaper that initially reached out to Pine for comment did not have a story about the incident on its website but students still took to the online message board titled “Eagle Rants” where there was much disagreement about who is in the wrong.

“Shame on The Eagle for harassing a professor in pursuit of a completely unnewsworthy ‘story,’” one person wrote.

Another complained: “These dogmatic academic types never admit their inappropriateness, but rather scorn at the ‘uncultured’ world around them.”

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fcbs46
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:21pm
For the sake of the child and the public health of the campus community, when faced with the challenge of caring for a sick child in the case where backup childcare is not available, a faculty member should take earned leave and arrange for someone else to cover the class, not bring a sick child into the classroom,” the statement said.

I agree. But she did her baby a disservice and her students. I see nothing wrong with feeding the baby but bringing her to school and trying to teach. She cheats everyone.

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- PASSIONFORCHRIST
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:50pm
  Oh! It’s o.k. to disrespect others around you, but speak your mind on the matter and she see’s everyone else as unsympathetic! I have no sympathy for this so called professional, because she is not. Do it on your own time(away from everyone else, leave the room or stay home). These were her choices, but she chose to be disrespectful. I am a mother of 4 and what she did was disrespectful, rude and unprofessional, period! Take tenure away from these fools and see how fast they will follow the rules.
  
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- Compound
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:55pm
  She wanted to work, unlike most that would take advantage of an oportunity to stay home. This is where work ethnics have gone.. Call in sick.
  
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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:56pm
  Seriously who does this? I am a woman and I am shocked. There is absolutely no reason in the world for women to whip out their boob anytime they see fit to breast feed. Go to a bathroom sit in your car …whatever…This is not acceptable behavior in public.
  
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- v15
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:02pm
  @PassionForChrist, I don’t think motherhood should be demonized in our society. It bothers me that “passion for christ” is a euphemism for “intolerance,” “can’t wait for people to burn in Hell,” “hate others,” etc.
  
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- MontaraMissileMan
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:10pm
  I hope the four of you never have to eat in front of me, I’m telling you to go to a bathroom or your car. Your bodily functions disgust me. I hope you never eat or drink in public, do you know the sexual things people do with their mouths? Disgusting. How dare you force that upon me and my family!
  
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- Seasoldier
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:16pm
  She could have used her teaching assistant to go over the syllabus for this first day of class, unless, given the subject matter of the course, she was intent upon making a statement.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:21pm
  So it’s not enough for these women to denigrate WOMANHOOD, now they have to do it for MOTHERHOOD. First of all, silly woman/mother: If your child is ill. YOU STAY HOME. IF you must work there are breast pumps and stand by milk. YOU FOOL NO ONE.
  
  YOU and your kind want to PUSH the envelop as far as you can, don’t you? SHAME ON YOU for using your child as a prop in your sicko actions. SOME THINGS are supposed to be private; sacred; clothed in decency. YOU are a twerp. YOU are a hot-shot. YOU are a liberal nut case on steroids. I feel sorry for your child. YES, I know that women breast feed their children all over the world in all types of places…this is a public CLASS ROOM, This could have been avoided. Check into her background, you’ll find LIBERAL permeating it !!!
  
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- MontaraMissileMan
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:34pm
  @Patty: Yes there are pumps and other things that can be used, but not every kid can or will take a bottle. I know my daughter refused to, only allowing my wife to use the breast no matter where we were. I’m glad you know exactly how her life should be run. Congrats on admitting you’re a right-wing Progressive though! That’s the first step to recovery.
  
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- Hobbs57
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:59pm
  Just so you know Henry was right Montarmissle whatever your name is …. This is Mama Obama on steroids .. Taking on not only corporate America but also, it seems the entire deemed “corrupt” Hondurs market structure. Since she knows more than other’s, being an intellectual elitist, she breaks the confines of remaining removed from her environment, and instead, “” Pine has been described as “a one-woman wrecking crew against the golpistas in Honduras and their handlers, paymasters, apologists and lackeys in DC” ” Always amazed me how anthropologist seem to always have to become activist, while in a career position to do the exact opposite.
  
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- mensa141
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:59pm
  I’m not sure if it was the most professional thing to do but I will relate this story of change. In the early 50′s it was quite common to see mothers breast feeding. I as a young boy didn’t bat an eye. While many Americans are getting to be prudes regarding human caring we become very casual about all kinds of sex and abortions. Strange.
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:14pm
  Come on Patty. Please take your meds before posting. I just can’t, for the life of me, understand the hate and fear peddling that are always part of your posts.
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:15pm
  1. Her baby was sick….so she brings it into a public place where others may get sick due to contamination from the baby. The professor disregarded the safety and welfare of her students.
  
  2. The professor, by virtue of bringing the baby into the “work-place”, introduced a distraction to her “customers”; there-by, it is unlikely they were able to concentrate on the subject matter (even though it was just a review of the syllubus and expectations for the class); and thus, did not get their money’s worth. After all, the students showed up expecting a product, and what they got was a distraction from the product.
  
  3. The “professor”, has just demonstrated to the students that “professionalism at the workplace” is no longer a value. Pity.
  
  4. The professors’ response to the criticism futher demonstrates that she does not respect the cultural mores of society at large. And as such, is very intolerant of other’s opinions.
  
  My bet is she has one of those “coexists” bumber stickers that are made up of different symbols to say she is “tolerant’ of all peoples opinions.
  
  Ppppplllllleeeeeaaaassseeeeee!
  
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- pennyroyal
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:31pm
  This professor’judgement was flawed, her choice was not good for the class and the baby. Breastfeeding is not the issue. As a former student at AU, I am aware that the tuition is very high. The students have engaged a professor for her academic strength and not her maternal duties. To have a child present in the classroom or lecture hall is distracting and counter productive for all. If this “in your face” choice was a feminist ploy, it set everything back a century.
  
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- toto
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:38pm
  Having breast fed 2 children for well over a year each, I know that there are wonderful coverups that completely shield the nursing child from view. If the prof chose not to use a reliable cover up, then she is indeed inconsiderate and selfish on that issue alone. The other issue is the fact that she put her career/job ahead of what was best for a sick child. She should have made arrangements for someone else to take the class, or canceled it.
  
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- TriGeek
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:52pm
  A co-worker braught her sick child to work two weeks ago, and EVERYONE in my office came down with the stomach flu. If you or your child is sick, stay home and don’t infect everyone around you.
  
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- sWampy
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:54pm
  She should be praised, most college failures, oh professors would have sent in some TA to take their place and think nothing about it. It seems most are lucky if their professors show up to half the classes these days.
  
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- Ffatcat
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:01pm
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- v15
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:01pm
  mensa141
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:59pm
  
  I’m not sure if it was the most professional thing to do but I will relate this story of change. In the early 50′s it was quite common to see mothers breast feeding. I as a young boy didn’t bat an eye. While many Americans are getting to be prudes regarding human caring we become very casual about all kinds of sex and abortions. Strange.
  
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  That’s really what I’ve been trying to get across to everyone. I was born in the 80s but I’m pretty sure I remember seeing women breastfeeding in public (malls, movie theaters, etc). Even as a guy, I don’t see it at some perverted sexual thing. And, yeah, I find it strange that people are becoming prudes in this way but glorifying being a slut, gay, etc.
  
  My reasoning behind this whole thing is pretty simple. Women have been told that if they are mothers, then they are failures. So I think if people see more women breastfeeding in public, then maybe some people would wake up and realize being a mother isn’t career suicide. I don’t think this professor should be breastfeeding every time she teaches, but, unless I’m totally missing something else to this story, I think this one incident was okay. I think people are judging her too harshly, as it is always easier to point out others’ mistakes than their own.
  
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- Ffatcat
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:05pm
  I completely agree with you. This story is not that that the teacher breast fed her in class, but that she brought a sick child to the work place. I have no problem with breast feeding in public, but bring a child to work that is to sick to attend daycare is wrong. This is a sick day for the teacher.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:13pm
  The only problem I see is with the ability to concentrate on the lesson and, …oh yeah the topic? I applaud her for going to work, I do wonder, based on the class title if that was the whole story.
  
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- love the kids
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:29pm
  Some schools provide 11 year old girls with condoms, do you really think this is inappropriate?
  
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- RossPoldark
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 1:27am
  Read the Professors reply to the situation. This woman just babbles on and on and on about her womens rights etc. She is a typical femist libturd that is full of herself. She just seems to love to hear herself talk. If these are the kind of professors that are teaching our kids, all I can say is: God save this country.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:02am
  Thanks HOBBS. IT is so maddening when one of the progressive liberal Commie/SOCIALISTS does exactly what you know they are doing, but doesn’t have the guts to stand before her class and say:
  
  I want more openness in society and I don’t believe that you should be offended because I expose my breast in front of you. But no, she has to make up some baloney and still do it anyway, but without the guts to state her real purpose. It’s like knowing someone is going to cheat or lie and then they do it. PS : Passion and TRUTH are not the same as HATE. YOU Guys evidently can’t handle the truth…that’s why you elected that COMMIE/MARXIST/CALIPHATE DICTATOR wanna be, even when HE TOLD YOU he was going to gut AMERICA…and here is where you are really STUPID:
  America is the best nation on earth. It has people from every country, size shape, color, age, ethnicity , already under our roof and instead of focusing on how to make the economy work better, schools work period etc. this dope-in-chief is so brain-washed by his COMMIE ideas that he won’t accept anything less than total destruction..it’s either that or he IS the ANTI CHRIST. Either way GOD WINS.
  But we still have to fight hard for AMERICA, just in case he’s not the AC. DO NOT MISTAKE TRUTH for HATRED. Although in his case, Hatred would be totally understandable.
  
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- Vote-The-Obama-Romney-Ticket
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:05am
  lol
  
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- Vote-The-Obama-Romney-Ticket
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:05am
  This requires earnest and studied investigation, TheBlaze! WHERE ARE THE FACTS? — The cup size.! The breast pictures! The amount of milk dispensed! INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:17am
  Yo, V15, with those teeth, I’d bet your Mama just loves you. I only leave little holes. I don’t do mastectomies. :)=
  
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- obfuscatenot
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:59am
  I have had the pleasure of breastfeeding and there is nothing more wonderful! You are right on FCBS46-it’s not the issue of breastfeeding, it’s the “distraction” of the kid. A child crawling around and making the noises babies make is a distraction. Maybe next time she should bring a puppy to “distract” from the environment of learning, or Grandma who can’t control her flatulence. I am also the proud parent of two kids in college. This is unacceptable, and most definitely unprofessional.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 7:41am
  People need to lighten up a little….is this really an issue? Anyone notice the Ca. councilwoman leading the slut parade? Maybe direct your ire in that direction….leave this one alone….
  
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- sta
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:15am
  Toto is absolutely correct. A cover pleases everyone.
  
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TJexcite
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:11pm
This may be new but it might not be. One can see this happening for years in a liberal school as when this prof was a student her prof did the same thing or other like. The only thing different is the social media age and this would not have left the classroom as there was no medium to spreed it have everyone hear about it. Similar to the potty in the restaurant. It would not have left the deli as nothing as but a word of mouth story if not for Facebook.

Just how many things that are “new” but have been going on for years but now more then the people there hear and see it.

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- v15
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:28pm
  There’s nothing wrong with breastfeeding in public.
  
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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:40pm
  There is nothing wrong with public breast feeding, however Liberals just want it to be done, because they know other people don’t want it to be done – for no other reason. A liberal wants whatever someone else doesn’t want – if it pushes your buttons – they want it.
  
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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:45pm
  v15,
  Do you think after diseases and disasters wipe out billions of people, and then the population is not allowed to ever increase that much, do you think you will be back here? I don’t think you will.
  
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- v15
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:56pm
  watersRpeople
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:45pm
  
  v15,
  Do you think after diseases and disasters wipe out billions of people, and then the population is not allowed to ever increase that much, do you think you will be back here? I don’t think you will.
  
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  Watersrpeople……diseases wiping out billions of people? Population control? How does this have anything to do with breastfeeding in public?
  
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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:19pm
  Breastfeeding in public is disgusting and unecessary. I am a mother and I breast fed my children……….IN PRIVATE!
  
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Cryinthewilderness
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:58pm
We all have nipples! Got that settled. We all have a crack but we do not walk around with our head in it and loose our values. dugh!

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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:07pm
  No, it’s because you think about them lustfully and sexually. That’s it – nothing else. You also first think about a woman’s private parts as sexually too, and not as a reproductive organ. That’s it – nothing else.
  
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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:15pm
  People don’t want dad’s to deliver their own sons and daughters because many people are like lizards who tango with the mother and the father goes away while the eggs are just hatched in a nest. If you live that way – I guess gay doesn’t matter.
  
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- v15
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:23pm
  @watersrpeople, dude you sound like an extreme Muslim in favor of Sharia Law. If all you see is sexual then sounds like you’re a reformed pervert.
  
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- Godzgrl247
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:26pm
  I have to disagree. Women are part of the work force today. Get used to it! This was the first day of class. This is an educated woman and loving MOTHER. Most babies that have fevers are not going to be contagious to grown men and women. Also, the floors are cleaner the first day of school than at any other time of the year. From what I read, the professor tried to keep herself covered. That being said, I believe that this country has gone far above and beyond what even our Biblical forefathers would have expected as far as modesty. Do you think all of those women crossing the Red Sea when it parted said, “Uh…Guys! My baby’s hungry. Ya’ll just go on without me. I’ll step over here behind this curtain of water and feed him?” No, they would have had a sling and would have nursed their baby in the same fashion as this professor and kept on going. Field work was not stopped back in the day when a baby got hungry. Babies latched on and hung on! Remember, God put Adam and Eve in the garden. They were NAKED and UNASHAMED. The human body is not sinful and this professor or any other woman that needs to nurse their child is not doing something sinful in doing what God intended their body to do. You say your name is CRYINTHEWILDERNESS. Perhaps you need to go hang out there and learn a few things about nature?
  
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- v15
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:40pm
  @GODZGRL…. Excellent post. I am glad that at least someone other than myself has some common sense. Everyone else seems to be twisting it into something immoral or sexual.
  
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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:42pm
  It doesn’t really matter what anybody thinks, because plagues are going to wipeout billions of people.
  
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- Seawolf607
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:04pm
  GODZGRL247,
  
  It plane and simple. This is not about robbing women of some alleged right. At the very least the problem with what the professor did was that the act was extremely unprofessional. That is it. I know as a college student I am not paying good money to watch my professor breastfead I am there to learn and an infant much less a sick one does not belong in the class room. If it is that big of a deal to the professor then maybe she needs to re-evaluate her priorites and find a different career like stay at home mom.
  
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- Graffiti71
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:13pm
  @GODZGRL247…Yes, Adam and Eve were naked and unashamed, but the story didn’t stop there. They sinned against God by eating from the tree of knowledge. They soon saw things in a very different way from how they were intended to. Including their own nakedness from which they DID become ashamed and thus felt the need to clothe themselves. It is from that original sin that God decided man should toil for their food and women should bare the pain of childbirth. Breastfeeding is very natural, but would YOU do it in a very public and professional setting? There is a time and a place for many things. Face it, this was not the time NOR the place for that.There WERE alternatives for the situation. I work at a university and it really is not THAT big of a deal to either cancel the first day of class, or get someone to cover for you in dire situations. Seriously, it’s not.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:56pm
In the world of liberals, burdensome, inconvenient babies (you know, the few each year that escape the P.P. slaughterhouses) always suffer the most. Sick babies belong at home, not crawling around on a filthy, dirty floor, chewing on paper clips. AND no – breastfeeding in this setting is not appropriate.

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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:09pm
  And the reason you are made to think about it sexually is because that snake likes it that way – because that snake has the soul of a lizard who sits on eggs.
  
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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:23pm
  I think Waters forgot to take the whole pill today….Don’t worry honey the voices will go away…eventually.
  
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Cryinthewilderness
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:55pm
This is what is wrong with this country we do not have any moral values anymore. First, by her bring the baby to class she exposed the who class to the sickness, second what happen to modesty and most mothers would stay home with the child. The women this day and again have no sense of character, they see that anything they do that nothing is wrong with it. Another thing this is a teacher, now this lets you know her values and she is teaching your children, dugh!

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- jmhinpnw
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:13pm
  Nursing a baby is not a sexual act. Comforting a sick child by nursing her is a very compassionate act and adults need to get over their squeamishness at seeing a baby fed naturally.
  
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- jmhinpnw
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:16pm
  Seriously? If you think nursing a baby in public is an immoral act, you are a fool. And you give fodder to the liberals who think conservatives are nuts anyway.
  
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Walkabout
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:54pm
I hear or read the word “dialectics” & I think Communist.

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Calimann83
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:48pm
I do not see any problem with Breast feeding in public in general, and I probably would not have cared if I was a student in the class. I guess I could see how it could be distracting to the class and how the university would want her to take paid leave for a sick child.

whatever, she wins me over with her nipple comment.

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- Cryinthewilderness
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:57pm
  see morals are lost. Nothing wrong with anything you do anymore. No values, you may have a nipple but you do not bring it out in public.
  
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PepperAnderson
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:47pm
Good mothers keep their sick children at home. Also try some modesty. Not everybody wants to see you whip out your boob. No matter how you spin it makes some people uncomfortable.

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- Captain Crunch
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:54pm
  Here we go with the comfort thing again. Libs are have mush for brains that they eat for breakfast in the morning with milk and sugar. Who cares about their comfort level. The prof was doing them a service by making them get in touch with their more sensitive Obama mentality. I hope the baby had a big burp after the meal. That would have been great to see.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:03pm
  Take children of any age, whether they were sick or not, to class or work never worked out for me. I just see it working for her. She has sick days like everyone else.
  
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JQCitizen
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:46pm
Well, when I first accessed this article it was via the headline, up-top; (no picture). I agree with most of the comments that the sick baby was more of an issue than the breast-feeding.

Allow me, however, a bit of speculative levity: If that is a picture of the professor, I don’t think you could find a virus that the average college male would find objectionable enough to stay away from her class!!! LOL:)

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- TJexcite
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:18pm
  The photo on the main page for this post is a stock photo. Google the prof and she is the typical leftist and one photo has her on Russia Today as a militant medial anthropologist.
  
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- JQCitizen
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:35pm
  pretty much knew that; but the topic was boring me a little, because i have heard these arguments since i had my kids, back in the eighties; so i made a joke:)
  
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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:46pm
Call me old fashioned, but, These things belong behind doors, out of sight, private. The last thing I need or want to watch is an unmoral women whipping out her boob and feeding their baby in front of me. Yes, it’s nature, but, so is taking a crap but I don’t want to watch anybody taking a dump either.

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- 3monkeysmomma
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:52pm
  While I agree that modesty is called for, I don’t think breastfeeding your child is “immoral”—and certainly not “unmoral” which isn’t even a word.
  
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- Captain Crunch
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:56pm
  Jesus was breast fed. If it was good for him….
  
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- ccprotect
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:24pm
  Hey Captain Dork…. STFU you slimy porno drooling punk lib. go to another site that better suites you.
  
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- ccprotect
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:41pm
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AxelPhantom
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:45pm
Great, so bring a sick child into a germ breeding factory like a college campus. Brilliant!

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PepperAnderson
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:44pm
Keep your sick kid at home. Also get some modesty. Not everyone wants to see you whip out your boob.

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- Captain Crunch
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:49pm
  Thats right…not everyone.
  
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Captain Crunch
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:42pm
Anything that shocks the socks off of the politically idiots in the world is ok by me. More power to her and the lil’ teat sucker.

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- 3monkeysmomma
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:50pm
  …and to think the old farts at my job used to have a hissy fit when I’d excuse myself to the stockroom at lunchtime to use a breast pump!
  
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geomann
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:40pm
If ever there was a class where this was OK, this was it. Students want to learn about those subjects, and their first day taught them what motherhood is all about. This may be the first Feminism professor I like, and she sounds like a good mother too.

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- PepperAnderson
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:50pm
  good mothers keep their sick kids home, that way that don’t get other kids sick too.
  
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MeCpl13
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:36pm
I have no problems with breastfeeding in public, however bringing a sick baby to class and exposing others to the illness, as well as exposing the child to who knows what with an aready run down immune system, was irresponsible.

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- MarianF
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:04pm
  I agree, I don’t understand why so many get so bent out of shape over breastfeeding. Bringing the sick baby was a mistake but not choosing to breastfeed.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:39pm
  Marian, the right thing to do would be to give the class a task to complete, then leave the room and breastfeed her baby in a private setting. I do not get the mindset of someone thinking that, because it is a natural act, they should subject everyone in the room to witnessing it when they could very easily get their fat rear end up and go to another room.
  
  It is beyond selfish and enters into the realm of exhibitionist. I am all for breastfeeding 100%. I am also all for urinating. I just think that if you decide to do either in a public setting you are being very inconsiderate to everyone else in the room.
  
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kiwi1
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:35pm
In addition to being totally inappropriate, If the child was sick as she claims, is it OK to expose a group of people to an unknown sickness. Another arrogant elitist.

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garbagecanlogic
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:34pm
My first clue as to her being another progressive sick puppy was her name. However, I must admit that I expected a hyphenated name.

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:31pm
I heard in the class after this one she got up on her desk and switched out tampons infront of everyone. This woman is dedicated to teaching she doesn’t want to miss a second.

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Marv Fox
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:31pm
I have nothing against breast feeding babies. Sometime a mother must do that in public for the good of the baby. My one negative thought in this case is to wonder why she found her lecture so important that she couldn’t retire to the teachers lounge to breast feed her baby. At least some of her students might have been more comfortable if she had.
Marvin E. Fox

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- Captain Crunch
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:45pm
  Who cares about the “comfort” of some brainwashed libs crying the blues over a little breast milk. They need to made uncomfortable more often and in worse ways. These people make me sick.
  
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13th Imam
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:30pm
I’m shocked. A feminist univ. prof, that doesn’t like students that talk about her mammarys. Yet, if I pulled out my penis in her class and took a whiz, she would have me arrested. After all, I pee too. This double standard is amazing.

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- MarianF
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:07pm
  I don’t think anyone would notice. You seem like a small man, in more ways than one.
  
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- v15
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:19pm
  @13, Really dude? You’re comparing breastfeeding to ******* on the floor? That’s a logical fallacy. I think breastfeeding in public should be encouraged. It’s not some crude base instinct or some kind of sexual act. Plus, I believe it’s good for society to see that there is no shame in being a mother, especially since over a million fetuses are aborted every year in this country.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:59pm
  It’s all natural
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:08pm
  And you people have no sense of humor
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:20pm
  @13th… i thought it was funny.
  
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- v15
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:09pm
  @13th, since I believe that white males are born with 2 strikes against us and that white males are the most discriminated against group, that the public would be quick to condemn a white guy. Women and minorities believe us white males are the oppressors.
  
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HelloWorld
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:29pm
Boundaries. Hello – was it fair to expose a sick child to all of the other students? How about canceling your class and do a makeup class. What about the child that is sick. How is that carrying for her properly?

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FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:29pm
Sometimes when I’m talking to people outside I’ll just whip out my penis and starting peeing. What all men have them it’s natural. It’s not unprofesional at all in fact I think I have more clients becuase of it. They’re all men, and they all like rainbows, and they bring me lots of iced tea and lemonade while we chat outside.

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- MarianF
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:09pm
  I don’t think people notice. You seem like a small man.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:33pm
  Okay, FreedomOverFear, this is two nights in a row that you have made me LMAO. Thanks again. You should maybe think about writing up a routine and taking your show on the road.
  
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- soap on a rope
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:19pm
  Thank you! I’m so tired of the, “but it’s natural!” argument.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:28pm
Boy, it sure is getting “nippy” out here. Brrrr! Better cover up! Bahahaha!

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hidden_lion
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:28pm
It is a sex and gender class…Seems to fit in with the subject, could have made for an interesting first day discussion. It seems strange to me that in America violence is less controversial than nudity or in this case public breast feeding.

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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:24pm
I think its OK as long as she doesn’t the feed the kid a peanut butter and jelly sandwich – now that’s offensive.

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:29pm
  Good One.
  
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- FREEDOMoverFEAR
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:30pm
  Not if you use wheat bread. Only if PP&J is served on white bread is it then racist.
  
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- Bigolfascist
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:39pm
  And potentially racist…..at least in Oregon.
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:40pm
  Thank you Shore. I now see that I should have spent some time in the editing process. I have one too many “the”s.
  
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