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Did anyone see the ITV News piece about of water bills on customers?

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inkjet · 29/06/2023 10:45

https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1674332639921045505

Yes this is the feminism board. Paul Embery clipped it but I wonder if anyone saw it in full? He says the piece was about the impact of soaring water bills on an everyday mother. The voiceover calls the person a customer but the customer calls themself a mum. On the Twitter thread someone points out that the customer works for the TUC and is an economist who has been published in the Guardian. I think it’s fair to say the customer is neither a mother nor an ‘everyday’ one.

https://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1674332639921045505

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SamW98 · 03/07/2023 09:35

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ExtraChilliesPlease · 03/07/2023 09:18

I find the image of this man breastfeeding a baby sickening!

NotHavingIt · 03/07/2023 09:18

Taken from a blog post by La Scapagliata ( based on her analysis of the male bresfeeding study):

"Very well put Tricia. The study is exercise in male narcissim, delusion and total breakdown of safeguarding mechanisms for both the mother and the child. There’s a sinister undercurrent to transactivism that is using children for validation and sexual gratification of some trans-identified men, and even though paedophiles try to legalise their crimes every decade or so, it never stops being absolutely urgent to stop them. Case in point: https://www.thestranger.com/queer-issue-2017/2017/06/21/25225867/my-first-time-breastfeeding-my-daughter
It’s not an accident the fathers of post-modernism, Foucault and Derrida, and the fathers of transgenderism, Money, Kinsey, Benjamin, were all paedophile activists/apologists, or that WPATH is a rebranded Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), or that this is being disseminated through queer theory, which is a brain child of post-modernism. But so many people aren’t aware of it, because the connections are not advertised and passive-aggressive male narratives are used to smear mothers and emotionally blackmail and gaslight general population and legislators, into, ultimately what, time will tell.
I believe any attempt at legislating child abuse will ultimately fail. The sociaty has shown firm distaste for it and it won’t be allowed. But even severely relaxed, or even holes in child safeguarding mechanisms ultimately benefit paedophile rings, who are, as we know, extremely well organised and often rooted in institutions which involve men with lots of resources in positions of power.
I am now carefully watching all developments that insinuate children 1) have a sexual orientation=sexual attraction=are sexual beings in adult sense, 2) are capable of consent regarding touching of their genitals (which puts onus on the child instead on adults to know what is and isn’t appropriate, and it completely compromises childcare of the most vulnerable infants and small children), 3) aim to alienate and separate children from their parents and 4) are normalising detailed discussions about a child’s genitals, bodies and sexual function. All three feature heavily in trans activism, from telling pre-pubescent “drag queens” that if their parents won’t allow them to be sexualised “they need new patents” to “so brave” news articles about “openly gay 3 year olds” that suggest the toddler is advertising their sexuality, most recent sinister position that parents need “infant’s consent” to change their nappies, to the tragic case dissected in the media via programme “I Am Jazz”.

My First Time Breastfeeding My Daughter

Having breasts was great, but using them to feed another human being was magic.

https://www.thestranger.com/queer-issue-2017/2017/06/21/25225867/my-first-time-breastfeeding-my-daughter

NotHavingIt · 03/07/2023 08:46

Domperidone has been banned in the U.S, but apparently some women, as well as TW, procure it from Canada.

In Britain it is only available with prescription, but i cannot imagine a GP prescribing it to a male for the purpose of 'breasfeeding'.

NotHavingIt · 03/07/2023 08:44

This is all about pushing the boundaries of what is considered normal or acceptable; and in doing so eroding healthy and natural boundaries.
As people have suggested; this is nothing bu an activist stunt.

A breastfeeding woman would not pull her t-shirt down in such a way. That would be very uncomfortable. Who. or where, is this child's mother, and should social services be involved?

Datun · 03/07/2023 08:30

The last time does came up, a man had claimed that he had managed to feed his child for six weeks.

And was quite upfront about please don't judge me, because indeed, it was more exciting than anything a partner 'could ever do to you.'

He identified as a woman, at did the doctor helping him do it.

Froodwithatowel · 03/07/2023 08:24

If it's such a lovely, healthy and normal thing, where are all the dads (not taking medication of any kind other the one to generate these secretions) lactating and feeding their babies?

This is about supporting this male person's belief in being a woman. Using a child. Sucking on an intimate bit of anatomy. While everyone's required to say this is so lovely and progressive and nice. Fgs in 2023 no one can hear you scream.

Zeugma · 03/07/2023 08:19

Who took this clearly-staged photo, given that both this person’s arms are holding the child, so it’s clearly not a selfie?

Seems to me it's the planned next step after the 'just a mum like me' TV appearance.

dimorphism · 03/07/2023 08:11

MrsJamin · 03/07/2023 08:03

How is this man in charge of a baby? Even temporarily or infrequently? Which council area does he live in so that we can call social services safeguarding officers? I'm so disturbed by this.

Well it's pretty clear he doesn't do laundry for children on any regular basis given his complete lack of grasp of the basics (children produce more laundry than can be fitted into a washing up bowl; if you're doing that little laundry in each load you're definitely wasting water plus your kids will never have clean clothes unless the washing machine is constantly on).

I expect the hard work of actual child care is beyond people who spend time posting selfies using their children as validation props.

Datun · 03/07/2023 08:10

Yummingtons · 03/07/2023 07:02

I don't understand women who are OK with this. Are you all ok with their DD's meeting a man, giving birth to a baby, then that man taking over the role of mother and pretending to breastfeed the child?

Have you thought through to the end game of this, because it is not going to stop here. The words used to describe us; woman, mother, breastfeeding and more are all being g eradicated. Then the physical aspects are too; pregnancy being outsourced to surrogates, men taking over and pretending to breastfeeding. What's next?

You are all OK with this? You are all OK with this happening to YOUR daughters just so you can say you have been inclusive and kind?

Many women don't realise that there is such a thing as a lactation fetish. (HQ, I'm categorically not assigning this fetish to any specific individual).

Unfortunately the internet is plastered with men saying how they have used a breast pump for months, in order to get two drops of liquid.

it's my understanding that it is impossible for males to sustain any kind of nutrition for an infant. But that doesn't stop them trying, or, more often, claiming they have.

The fetish has long been known, the new angle is claiming it's a right, within the context of diversity and inclusion.

MrsJamin · 03/07/2023 08:03

How is this man in charge of a baby? Even temporarily or infrequently? Which council area does he live in so that we can call social services safeguarding officers? I'm so disturbed by this.

00100001 · 03/07/2023 07:54

teacher45646 · 03/07/2023 07:18

Yes I am ok with this :)

Well you can cheer your daughter on happily when a man takes over her mother role with your grandchildren. You can say how amazing it is that the man is and you can tell her how amazing you all are and pat yourselves on the back about how you made a baby suckle at a man's nipple to eat chemically induced "milk" and you can all gaze in at how this is all perfect and normal and definitely in the best interests if the child and how much your daughter is being overlooked in the whole process in order to validate your son I. Laws feelings. Bravo you guys.

But I won't be supporting that in my family.

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teacher45646 · 03/07/2023 07:18

Yummingtons · 03/07/2023 07:02

I don't understand women who are OK with this. Are you all ok with their DD's meeting a man, giving birth to a baby, then that man taking over the role of mother and pretending to breastfeed the child?

Have you thought through to the end game of this, because it is not going to stop here. The words used to describe us; woman, mother, breastfeeding and more are all being g eradicated. Then the physical aspects are too; pregnancy being outsourced to surrogates, men taking over and pretending to breastfeeding. What's next?

You are all OK with this? You are all OK with this happening to YOUR daughters just so you can say you have been inclusive and kind?

Yes I am ok with this :)

Yummingtons · 03/07/2023 07:03

Sorry, not trying to blame women, but showing exasperation at people like teacher45646.

Yummingtons · 03/07/2023 07:02

I don't understand women who are OK with this. Are you all ok with their DD's meeting a man, giving birth to a baby, then that man taking over the role of mother and pretending to breastfeed the child?

Have you thought through to the end game of this, because it is not going to stop here. The words used to describe us; woman, mother, breastfeeding and more are all being g eradicated. Then the physical aspects are too; pregnancy being outsourced to surrogates, men taking over and pretending to breastfeeding. What's next?

You are all OK with this? You are all OK with this happening to YOUR daughters just so you can say you have been inclusive and kind?

MrsJamin · 03/07/2023 04:55

Safeguarding isn't hatred. I really hope you're not a real teacher @teacher45646

SmartHome · 03/07/2023 03:12

Was being, I think it's about 3 now. There was obviously and actual woman somewhere doing the actual feeding.

SmartHome · 03/07/2023 02:47

That poor baby. I hope it's is being fed proper milk as well, breast or formula or that will have god knows what affects on its development.

Boiledbeetle · 03/07/2023 00:42

inkjet · 03/07/2023 00:00

I’m quite comfortable with the level of hatred I feel towards this man.

As am I. The thing is I didn't start off hating him. I was annoyed that he was the mother they chose for the piece. I think men who call themselves women and mothers are liars, but I didn't hate the man just thought the whole thing rather annoying that of all the women in the UK they could have used they used a male one.

THEN he published that photo and my feelings then became hatred. But then I have a hatred of anyone proved to be a child abuser.

Littlesprouts · 03/07/2023 00:28

The last time breastfeeding the child. On a bus on the way for... cancer treatment?

A private moment between mother and child if ever there was one. Not one to be marked by a smug, smiling, oh-so-affirming selfie on public transport, 'tit' out for social media. This person is absolutely abhorrent. The TUC are supporting this, playing along as if this is okay? Unforgivable.

HootyMcBooby76 · 03/07/2023 00:21

Hope you are not actually a teacher (going by your user name) that is peddling this shite to children.

dimorphism · 03/07/2023 00:16

I'm totally ok with hating child abusers.

Wiccan · 03/07/2023 00:08

Clymene · 02/07/2023 23:51

Anyone who priorities their own validation above a child's well-being is a fucking monster

Abso fucking lutly and women are being called haters and bigots because we are the protectors of our babies and young !

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