{"id":65777,"date":"2016-05-14T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T15:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65777"},"modified":"2016-05-14T15:29:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T19:29:14","slug":"powerful-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65777","title":{"rendered":"Powerful hyperbole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Huffington Post entitled “7 Powerful Photos Of Military Moms Breastfeeding In Uniform<\/a>“. <\/p>\n

I’m wondering a bunch of things. First of all, what makes them “powerful”? It’s something that millions of women do each day, so what’s the big-damn-deal? Some of the kids in the pictures appear to be too old to be breast feeding – that’s kind of creepy.<\/p>\n

I have to wonder how many times a day a woman has to breast feed her baby while in uniform in public? It doesn’t seem to me it’s that often. Are they taking their kids to work? To the field? On deployments? That would be powerful. <\/p>\n

Some of the pictures were taken at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. What’s that about?<\/p>\n

\u201cI have learned that many active duty moms are struggling to find support to continue nursing and pumping once they return to work full-time,\u201d [photographer Vanessa] Simmons told The Huffington Post. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Simmons is the founder of “Normalize Breastfeeding” which is another of those organizations which think they have an issue. I don’t know how you cannot “normalize” something that our “Creator” endowed half of us with the ability to accomplish. Seems a lot more normal than some of the other behavior that is being being “normalized” these days.<\/p>\n

With this series, Simmons wants viewers to see the beauty and power in military moms breastfeeding. <\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that others recognize the difficulty at hand for every mother to breastfeed their baby, yet I also hope that they see the strength of the women who serve our country while serving their families simultaneously,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am inspired by their stories, I am impressed by their bravery in the midst of mothering, and I am grateful to have the opportunity to share the images that I have captured,\u201d she added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to me that Simmons is trying to politicize the issue instead of normalizing it. I guess “powerful”, “bravery” and “beauty” are just words we use these days like “is” and “are”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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