Chestfeeding

[ALoadOfTwaddle]

Just came across this term in a WhatsApp group I'm on. Apparently, it's a more inclusive word for breastfeeding.

So, I get the argument that if you're a woman who prefers to not be recognised as such, you may prefer not to be associated with words linked to women. But... Men have breasts too. Small and underdeveloped, but breasts. So what's wrong with calling it breastfeeding?

what's wrong with calling it breastfeeding

TRA's don't want people to call it that.

But men can get breast cancer??

But men can get breast cancer??

Well, exactly.

TRA's don't want people to call it that.

But that makes no sense as everyone has breasts. So...

After a man has his manly baby out of his front hole. Or is it his middle hole.

We're just moving this over to chat at OP's request.

But that makes no sense

Not to you or me because we actually think about what words mean.

So what's wrong with calling it breastfeeding?

In the real world, everyone knows that only women can feed their children with their breasts.

It's bizzaire and I don't understand this one. It doesn't even make one tiny bit of sense. As you say, men can get breast cancer. It's really unpleasant and odd.

If you don't want to be recognised as a woman you shouldn't use your fucking uterus to make a child, should you?

It is about erasing women. According to the TRAs we are no longer women - we are ciswomen. Defining a woman as an adult, human female is literal violence (but saying ‘Bash a TERF’ or hoping all TERFS die in grease fires is not). Lesbians who do not want to have penetrative sex with a penis-owning person’s penis (even if this person has self-identified as a woman and a lesbian so has a ‘lady dick’ not a penis) are told they should get over their genital preferences. Women who have worked long and hard to do well in sports have got to stand back and applaud whilst someone who was a second rate male athlete identifies as female and wins all the medals, prizes, world records and sponsorships. Women who have fought for equal representation in Parliament and work have to see their places on women-only short lists and the industry prizes for women going to men who identify as female.

And any of us who complain are fair play for abuse.

That’s fine for them but as I am a woman and I have breasts I will only join breast feeding chats. I don’t want to loose my identity as much as they don’t want to loose theirs

In the last few days I've read about a family who were upset about a baby boy wearing dinosaur clothes, a family who are concealing their child's gender and calling their child 'they' so that 'they can decide when they are older what they want to be' ... and now this. World's gone mad...

Baby girl I mean

But then again there are loads of (cis) women who say ‘nursing’ instead of breastfeeding because they are squeamish about saying anything involving the word ‘breast’. And grown women who still are weird about saying the word ‘vagina’ in any context. So.... (I suspect there is some overlap in populations of women who have hang ups about both ).

How many transmen go through pregnancy? It must be a tiny number, if you really suffered from gender dysphoria you surely wouldn't do the most feminine thing it's possible to do (pregnancy and breastfeeding). So why should the hundreds of thousands of women who get pregnant and breastfeed every year change the words they use to describe a feminine experience to keep happy a few transmen who deny their femininity? It's insane. Avoid the crazy folk and find a breastfeeding group.

Moobfeeding?

Transwomen get recognition for excelling at sports (against females)
Transmen get recognition... for having babies.

It's almost as if nothing's actually ch... never mind.

I just saw this word used in a breastfeeding Facebook group and it made me all sorts of uncomfortable and annoyed. They are breasts, I feed from my breasts.

I had breast cancer, I didn't have chest cancer. That's a whole different thing.

Breast feeding is breast feeding. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a tadge on the loony side surely?

It is about erasing women.

This. It's about power. Of course Genderists could use the word we've always used but that wouldn't allow them to signal they are in the gang, it wouldn't give them something to criticise others for.

*countfosco my thoughts exactly

Chestfeeding? More lefty/liberal nonsense.

I really don't see the harm. It's only used in the very rare context of when a trans man had given birth. Correct me if I'm wrong but I've seen no suggestion that this term should become universal?

I'm about as left as you can be but the erosion of women's rights via the trans movement makes me so mad.

It's just another expression of misogyny.