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In recent years, candidates have tried all kinds of strategies to make attention-getting campaign ads.
In two new political ads, however, candidates try something decidedly more commonplace: breastfeeding their children.
One ad opens on Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate Krish Vignarajah breastfeeding her baby and talking about the lack of women in state and federal elected office in her state.
In the other, Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kelda Roys feeds her infant daughter while talking about how she worked to help Wisconsin ban BPA, a chemical found in plastics, which some scientists have suggested is linked to health problems.
Breastfeeding may be as old as humanity, but doing so openly is rare in the world of political campaigns. As more women flood into politics, the videos represent one way that they are increasingly willing to break the mold of the standard candidate, almost entirely shaped by men, and more fully reflect womanhood in their campaigns.
If female politicians want to promote mothering values, maybe they should promote paying attention to the baby during the ten minutes it takes to nurse one. Blatantly ignoring a nursing baby to argue politics is the wrong message.
Is she going to take the baby to the office? Or, is she going to pump and leave the milk in the freezer? Is her husband or the grandmother going to stay home and care for the baby? The baby needs a loving family member 24/7, they aren't a prop.
You mean the way Sarah Huckabee Sanders stays home with her three kids under seven? Or the way Sarah Palin stayed home with her brood? Working women find a way to work things out not to mention many stay-at-home fathers are doing an amazing job. As for breastfeeding in a campaign ad, I could care less. I grew up in an era where breast feeding was the norm and I saw it often. I can't believe how prudish society has gotten over something so natural and wholesome. Maybe a few nursing babies in the House and Senate would remind everyone there why the work they do is important for the future of the babies in America and quit dancing to the strings of their big donors.
Give her a break. She had to serve 24/7 as the host for the creature growing inside, subsisting off her nutrients.
I don't blame her at all for wanting her husband to deal with the screaming baby during the day once it's out her body.
Lol, I like how you put that. As if the baby which grew inside her was a parasite which invaded her body without her knowledge and grew there like a disease, draining her of her life force. Something tells me she knew where babies come from, and what would result from her having sex with a male partner. And the fact that she then carried the "creature" as you called it for it's 10 month gestation period does not then give her the right to throw all the responsibility for raising the child on the father. Not that anything in the OP suggested that this was this woman's plan in any way. I'm sure she still plans to be a part of her child's life and upbringing. But I'm sorry, the way you described the rigors of pregnancy and your apparent belief that the father should assume all responsibility after the birth definitely needed a response.
As a woman, I wouldn't vote for a breastfeeding candidate for governor or the majority of public offices. She should be at home taking care of her infant for at least the first few years. I would consider her delinquent in her role as a mother.
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Sort of sexist statement isn't it? This isn't the 1950's anymore.
As a woman, I wouldn't vote for a breastfeeding candidate for governor or the majority of public offices. She should be at home taking care of her infant for at least the first few years. I would consider her delinquent in her role as a mother.
BTW has she made a statement indicating that her husband will be the stay-at-home parent?
If anything, Americans need to spend more time at home with their children, not less.
What does being a woman have to do with your opinion that new mothers should not have jobs?
You mean the way Sarah Huckabee Sanders stays home with her three kids under seven? Or the way Sarah Palin stayed home with her brood? Working women find a way to work things out not to mention many stay-at-home fathers are doing an amazing job. As for breastfeeding in a campaign ad, I could care less. I grew up in an era where breast feeding was the norm and I saw it often. I can't believe how prudish society has gotten over something so natural and wholesome. Maybe a few nursing babies in the House and Senate would remind everyone there why the work they do is important for the future of the babies in America and quit dancing to the strings of their big donors.
I didn't say she had to be the one who stayed home. I said a loving family member.
Lol, I like how you put that. As if the baby which grew inside her was a parasite which invaded her body without her knowledge and grew there like a disease, draining her of her life force. Something tells me she knew where babies come from, and what would result from her having sex with a male partner. And the fact that she then carried the "creature" as you called it for it's 10 month gestation period does not then give her the right to throw all the responsibility for raising the child on the father. Not that anything in the OP suggested that this was this woman's plan in any way. I'm sure she still plans to be a part of her child's life and upbringing. But I'm sorry, the way you described the rigors of pregnancy and your apparent belief that the father should assume all responsibility after the birth definitely needed a response.
Oh no, not at all. I'm just saying that hopefully the husband would be there for the baby during the day for the first year or two so that the mother isn't out of the workforce for too long. And to give her at least brief respite from the rigours of early infant motherhood.
After that, daycare would be fine. I disagree with people who are against it. It's a modern day necessity, and it can often offer much more interaction and socialization than one parent could offer at home, especially if it's an only child.
There's nothing wrong with the sight of a boob! Why do they get angry when men look though?
It's a little unprofessional...
The fact it's a boob makes no difference. I don't find the commercials necessary in bad tastes, but not good either.
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