OMG Brestfeeding debate on loose women

[sweetkitty]

Is anyone watching this???

[lunachic]

ditto to all the outrage on here the views expressed on loose women are needless backward and highly offensive - these women are pathetic and will never know the satisfaction and pleasure of breastfeeding their children
i just hope they dont put other women off breastfeeding as this would be the biggest shame
will email show too

[icklelulu]

Just read this! Im just about to email now. A bit late but better late than never! I think its awful that they can make such comments expecially the ones who havent even had children!They have no right to judge something so natural! Very angry better write the email now so they get the full brunt of my anger!

[Aragon]

I replied to their pathetic reply too. Told them that when I thought of their show the words pointless, stupid and women presenters came to mind and I couldn't think why. Vote for their pathetic excuse for a women orientated show - they must be joking.

[franch]

OMG Twiga, how did you avoid exploding all over your PC???

[Twiga]

Quick update - my emailed reply went dwon like the proverbial lead balloon !

"Yes we do read the emails but as you can probably appreciate we do recieve an extremely large amount of emails, calls and mails. Sorry you do not enjoy the show, each to their own I suppose.
Best Regards,"

[beansprout]

HM - oooh yes. What are the other candidates? What is the least deserving (apart from LM) and we can vote for that?!

[hunkermunker]

Time to MNers go and vote for everything but LW then?

[Twiga]

[beansprout]

Twiga - that's a classic!! What a bunch of bints!!

[Twiga]

Sorry to resurect this thread but I finally got a reply to the email that I sent to the show following their ridiculus debate on breast-feeding. Needless to say the reply is equally as stupid considering the tone of the email sent:

"Hi
Thank you for emailing ?Loose Women? it?s always a delight to hear from our viewers.

Loose Women has been short listed for ?Best Daytime Show? at this years TV Quick awards! Your vote is important and we do hope you will take a few minutes to vote for Loose Women on the link below. Thank you so much and I hope you continue to enjoy the show!

www.tvquick.co.uk

Vote Loose Women in Best Daytime!

Loose Women x"

Needless to say have replied along the lines of they are mad if they think I'm gonna vote for them and do they actually read their emails!!!

[alexsmum]

I have watched this programme before and that carol mcgiffin one has always struck me as a particularly unpleasant piece of work.She has said that she thinks it's ok to have affairs with married men,she speaks in a way that i consider to be almost mysoginistic on any number of subjects, and i seem to recall a discussion in which she stated that she had 'several' abortions and had no regrets about them at all.( sorry, i am very pro choice but her manner struck me as really distateful).We should not be surprised that she spouts such piffle about something so natural.
I really dislike her.

[Socci]

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[handlemecarefully]

Good on us all, eh?

[astonished]

Have e-mailed both!

[MarsLady]

To Ofcom. I'll email loose women once I've finished breast feeding the DTs lol

[TinyGang]

I didn't see this today but quickly scanning this thread it sounds pretty awful and par for the course for 'Loose Women'. I don't like the programme, whenever I've seen it, and can't stand the presenters Kay Someone or other and Carol McGiffin (are they still in it?)

Well done for Emailing them re the BF. They seem to perpetuate a fashionable ladette, 'anything feminine/maternal is pathetic' stance which I find nausiating.

[franch]

Thanks to the NHS for saying it for me really. Did you write to Loose Women or Ofcom? Or both?

[MarsLady]

should've waited and plagarised your complaint Franch. Well said!

[MarsLady]

Here is my complaint. Thought I'd share.

I am appalled at the way adult women can put forward such bigoted views about breastfeeding. There was no debate on the subject. Whether or not they agree with breastfeeding I do find it offensive that they should slam it so viciously. A woman's breasts are primarily for the feeding of her child. It is National Breastfeeding week. How many women do you think they have put off of breastfeeding their babies? There are many first time mums out there who will have been more than discouraged. I do think that there should be more reasoned debate and a lot less vitriol. Funny how Carol doesn't like to see breastfeeding, but is happy to "flash" her breasts at any passing photographer. To say I am appalled by the way the subject was "debated" is putting it incredibly mildly.

[franch]

OK, said the following to Ofcom:

"Please note the following:

'UNICEF estimates that 1.5 million babies worldwide die each year because they are not breastfed. In England and Wales 29% of mothers do not breastfeed. Yet we know that breast is best for the health of mother and baby.
What we need is an environment where women of all ethnic, social and cultural backgrounds are comfortable with feeding their baby anywhere and at any time. To do this we need to create an atmosphere of support from friends, family, partners and health professionals. The more vocal this support the stronger the encouragement to new mothers to take up and carry on breastfeeding their infant.'

(from www.breastfeeding.nhs.uk/)



I was shocked by the disparaging treatment of women who breastfeed in public on LOOSE WOMEN today and feel it could do real harm to the progress towards the environment described above by the NHS. I believe that the coverage was offensive, biased and disparaging to women who breastfeed in public - a necessary act for those who care enough about their baby's and their own health to breastfeed and who also feel the need to step outside of their homes from time to time.'


(Any non-breastfeeders, please excuse the statement about caring about babies' health - I know you do too but we need to be emphatic here.)

[franch]

Have emailed Loose Women, will now email Ofcom

[beansprout]

Philip Schofield is v slapable frankly. He should have stuck with his intellectual equal Gordon the Gopher and left us all in peace.

[hunkermunker]

BS, me too

Militant lactivists on This Morning tomorrow - I started a thread about it. Think they should be emailed too, don't you? Especially as Phillip Schofield remarked "Bitty" and Lorraine Kelly looked like breastfeeding a toddler was akin to anal sex in front of her mother.

[Spongebob]

I B/F on a nice comfy chair in the middle of Ikea, and got some very strange looks indeed!

[Spongebob]

Isnt it weird how every summer, women by the score will whip their boobs out on the beach to get a nice tan, and that is deemed pretty normal nowadays, but get one out to feed your kid and you could be offending someone???