Trust Your Elite Expert Class

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And oh so many reasons.

New Real Peer Review notes that this isn't the first time they've highlighted a Gender Expert's arguments regarding the social construct "gendering" of breastfeeding.

They've also noted that it is argued that pregnancy itself is sometimes claim to be "gendered" only due to socialization:

Strangely, these Gender Experts don't seem to care about the empirical evidence which seems to scotch their theories, such as a man in Sweden (where else?!) believing their nonsense and attempting to produce man-milk.

Swedish 'milkman' loses breastfeeding battle

Ragnar Bengtsson, 26, has failed in his high profile bid to pump forth milk from his breasts.

But there is some consolation for the self-styled "Milkman", who is winging his way to the United States this week for an appearance on The Tyra Banks Show.

Why that is a consolation! Appearing on a daytime TV show as a circus geek.

Bengtsson's milk race began with a bang in early September as he set about pumping his breasts on a three-hourly basis. The unorthodox sight of a young dad with a machine pressed to his nipples became part of daily life at Stockholm University, as the economics student endeavoured to do his bit for gender equality.

If men could breastfeed their babies, the argument went, then women could rejoin the workplace more quickly, safe in the knowledge that their newborns were receiving the proper nourishment from their proud dads.

Obligatory reference follows. I'm not even proud of this. It's so obvious. But it has to be linked.

posted by Ace at 04:44 PM

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