Content warning over video that included breastfeeding

[Rednorth]

Daughter just started studying health and social care at 6th form and she's come home today rather annoyed.

Apparently they were watching a documentary about childbirth and her teacher tells them "just a warning, you will see a woman breastfeeding"...DD didn't feel like she could say anything at the time (as she's just started and doesn't want to make bad impressions) but she quietly seethed at it being called out like that, and that students studying health and social care should need a 'warning' for such a thing.

I've told her to use it as an opportunity to talk about the importance of normalising breastfeeding in her assignments, but its left her feeling a bit uncomfortable (especially as she wants to be a midwife).

I'm trying to rationalise the reason for drawing attention to it myself but coming up short in all honesty...

So they can see birth but trigger warning for breastfeeding? Insanity

Yea that was my first reaction too.
A baby exiting the vulva and that gets no warining but oops sex toy may be shown by the teacher is crap.
(Assume its a mixed sex class too?)

If she wants to bring it up I would suggest asking why the "protocol" was added, when, how, were there problems or complaints or shock etc.

The teacher has a module to cover and sat down with a blank page and the materials including the visuals.

So how did the warning end up in the teaching pack.

Was it there from the start or
was it due to other policy cross over or
was in response to student feedback

If the need to have a warning stems from (is a reflection of) an attitide which discourages breastfeeding
Why women dont want to BF in public
etc

If it’s a mixed sex class (or even a particularly rowdy single sex class) a positive reading might be that the teacher was trying to nip comments from any class clowns in the bud rather than alert students to a possible content warning.

Breasts are still amusing to a lot of kids at that age, and while that could be its own topic for discussion I’d guess that the teacher just wanted to get on with the lesson without too many stupid jokes interrupting it.

Your suggestion about using it as a point of discussion in your daughter’s essay is a good idea. Good luck to her for the midwifery!

Thats a avoidance process in a mixed sex class.
Imo its much better to use the asshole as a teaching example of why BF rates are low and how that is sexual harrassment of a woman and being pervy over a child eating.

Thanks.

I'm just proud of my daughter for having that 'critical challenge' thinking. Even if she didn't feel like she could call it out in the moment.