she was accosted by the reporter and targeted by the publication by having them write articles.
when will the persecution end?
Free the American University two! Free the American University two! Free the American University two!
I think Professor Pine is full of shit.
Sick kid, no child care? Fine.
Bring the kid to class and have a TA help out? Fine.
Feed the child because it’s hungry? Fine.
Start nursing in the middle of the lecture without calling a 10 minute coffee break to give students the option to stretch their legs and you the option to nurse your child comfortably? Complete fucking bullshit.
She’s the Prof for Pete’s sake - she can call a coffee break in the middle of class and nurse her friggin’ kid - this was done 100% to make a spectacle of herself and try to prove some stunned political point. The fact that she’s the only person who’s actually talking about it to the press proves this point.
She was nursing and wanted an opportunity to try to make a political point and is using her new born child to do it. She’s a total asshole.
I hate parents who inflict their sick kids on us. The breastfeeding would have surprised me, but honestly I’d rather have a happy fed baby than a crying baby.
But yuck - kids are germ vectors. Leave sicky home, or stay home with them. You had a kid. You made the choice.
Hmm.
There isn’t, and people who think so are showing their ignorance. I have a friend who pumped and bottlefed and she wants to strangle anyone who says, “Why can’t you *just *pump and give a bottle?”
Aside from that, women wearing pants used to be “controversial” too, and I also think anyone who complained about it was a benighted anti-feminist, even if it really was controversial. Things can be controversial due to society being backwards, and I see no need to cater to that.
That’s not necessarily very sick at all. Some places will boot a kid with a runny nose. I’m not sure where I come down on the scenario here, but if the kid was well enough to be crawling around poking paper-clips into electrical outlets, it wasn’t that sick.
Sick babies sleep and cry, and if they are awake and aren’t crying, it’s because someone is holding them.
there’s a certain irony that a anthropology professor demonstrated breast feeding to her class. After all early human behavior is her specialty. Whats more basic to humans then a woman suckling her child?
Apprently, letting your child eat paperclips and check out open electrical outlets, then letting your TA soothe and amuse it.
Or a pistol, for that matter, as long as it’s silenced.
I don’t want my teachers or my classmates or my co-workers bringing their kids … anywhere near me.
I’m not to crazy about kids in my neighborhood either.
What about feeding the baby before and after the lecture. Or taking a break? What about even using formula once?
Interesting thought here - are the students allowed to bring their kids if they’re too sick for daycare? What’s the policy on this? What would the prof say if someone (or two or three or four someones) brought their sick, cranky, hungry kids to class?
Well she is a NEW mother…so…mistakes happen. I do think she overreacted to the newspaper though.
That would be awesome
See, now that would have been A+ teaching
From the professor in question:
I choose to take the professor at her word and say this wasn’t a political statement, just a situation which got blown out of proportion when it shouldn’t have.
The baby is a year old, not a newborn.
Plus the professor states she had breastfed during professional conference while she was giving a presentation. If a room full of professionals can handle it, than her students should also be able to.
Okay but why did she call her own baby “it”?
We were told years ago, during my early days of teaching college classes, that those who are not enrolled in the class or employed on the campus are not supposed to be allowed in the classroom even as temporary guests–just in case something happened to them. It’s a liability issue.
Isn’t this baby an unauthorized guest?
she called her baby “she” and her “daughter” in her essay. She is a super feminist, so she normally chooses to not identify her baby’s gender in regular discourse. She even points out she dressed her baby in a blue onsie and one of her students called her baby a boy, and she didn’t feel the need to correct him. Mind you, this is at an extremely liberal university which encourages this sort of thinking, so it shouldn’t be a shock she said it instead of she.
*personally, as liberal as I am comparatively to my peers I still conform to many gender roles, because as an anthropologist myself I choose to conform to certain cultural norms which I feel are most healthy for my children. I don’t personally understand why conformity is such a dirty word in some circles.
Okay, she’s definitely the ‘obsessively trying to make statements’ type. She probably did do this on purpose.