# Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Casually Breastfeeds Her Daughter in Campaign Ad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 9, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279 "2018-03-09T12:23:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/1 "2018-03-09T12:23:24Z")
This is clearly the new wave of politics. Trump is a bully and a fool, and candidates of all stripe are protesting by running, and by showing a different way. I have no idea of this woman’s policy specifics, but love the message: [Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Casually Breastfeeds Her Daughter in Campaign Ad](https://jezebel.com/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-1823634968) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/2 "2018-03-09T14:02:33Z")
I don’t have strong feelings on the message one way or the other, but I don’t believe anything happens “casually” in a political ad. “Oh, was I breast feeding? I didn’t even notice.” ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/3 "2018-03-09T14:38:50Z")
Good for her. Guy she’s running against is a slimebucket anyway, so I’m doubly supportive. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/4 "2018-03-09T16:52:31Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I don’t have strong feelings on the message one way or the other, but I don’t believe anything happens “casually” in a political ad. “Oh, was I breast feeding? I didn’t even notice.” I think this is a semantic issue. “Casually” in this context doesn’t mean “without any intent to put forth a message” but merely describes the manner in which the act is performed. An actor can, say, casually drop some litter on the ground, and yet that litter could be extremely important to the film. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/5 "2018-03-09T17:12:22Z")
It’s bad etiquette to watch such a video and \*\*\*not \*\*\*describe the lactating lady as brave. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/6 "2018-03-09T17:16:47Z")
[Congressional candidate in Illinois has a campaign photo circulating where he’s blazing away](https://merryjane.com/news/illinois-cannabis-congressman-candidate-benjamin-wolf-midterm-elections) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/7 "2018-03-09T17:48:25Z")
She claims [it wasn’t planned](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/03/07/wisconsin-candidate-kelda-roys-touts-bpa-ban-campaign-ad-while-breastfeeding/405836002/), which I suspect is bull. The greater issue is that she is scaremongering about BPA, which is also bull. She seems to be a generic leftie, so maybe she needs something to distinguish her. Not that it matters - Walker will win and she can go back to selling real estate. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/8 "2018-03-10T02:29:32Z")
Yeah, I’m not into the BPA scaremongering myself, but I could believe that it technically wasn’t planned. To me, it seems like something that may have spontaneously happened on set, the political ad director had an “a ha!” moment, and they encouraged her to go through her spiel while breastfeeding. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/9 "2018-03-10T02:37:48Z")
So, how many Republican heads do you think this is going to explode? They won’t be able to resist the temptation to cry out about “family values”, and then they’re going to have to explain how a breastfeeding mother is anything other than family values. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/10 "2018-03-10T13:06:51Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So, how many Republican heads do you think this is going to explode? They won’t be able to resist the temptation to cry out about “family values”, and then they’re going to have to explain how a breastfeeding mother is anything other than family values. That’s not hard; there’s also a strong contingent that doesn’t think it should be done in public. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/11 "2018-03-10T20:37:09Z")
It wasn’t casual. It may have been a last minute decision that happened during filming, but still, using your kid to forward your political ambitions is gross no matter how it’s done. Just wait until someone shows up next to a hospital bed. “Vote for single payer health care, or I’m pulling the plug on my mom!” In that case, I would condemn the ad even though I support the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/12 "2018-03-10T20:49:21Z")
I don’t believe for a moment that it was unplanned. I also dislike the BPA scaremongering; in the levels we’re talking it’s complete bullshit. I’d still vote for her though. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/13 "2018-03-10T21:09:23Z")
Generally speaking, things involving bodily fluids are and have been kept private and/or hidden away for a very long time. Chewing with one’s mouth open is considered rude and impolite. So is blowing your nose at the dinner table. So is sloppy, wet French-kissing in public. And of course shitting, pissing, fellatio, cunnilingus and fucking in public are right out of there. So naturally many people are going to find breastfeeding in public to be disgusting. Not everything that keeps a woman from doing what she wants is necessarily misogyny or discrimination. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/14 "2018-03-10T21:26:39Z")
We’ll, it’s not what the woman wants; it’s what the child needs. And it’s completely natural. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/15 "2018-03-10T21:28:26Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > And of course shitting, pissing, fellatio, cunnilingus and fucking in public are right out of there. So naturally many people are going to find breastfeeding in public to be disgusting. Not everything that keeps a woman from doing what she wants is necessarily misogyny or discrimination. Because a baby being fed by her mother is equivalent to taking a big runny shit in public, yes. This is why people go into small private stalls and lock themselves away before eating, because of the social stigma against public nourishment. I’m not even going to address your ideas about fellatio, cunnilingus and fucking in the streets, except to note that breastfeeding is not a sexual act. [Meanwhile, in the grown-up world, we treat babies and the necessarily messy stuff that goes on around them as, well, normal.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/98699747/new-zealands-new-babyfriendly-parliament) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/16 "2018-03-10T21:44:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So, how many Republican heads do you think this is going to explode? They won’t be able to resist the temptation to cry out about “family values”, and then they’re going to have to explain how a breastfeeding mother is anything other than family values. Oddly enough, in my circles, the moms that I think of as most pro-public breastfeeding are politically and religiously conservative (as in strongly anti-abortion, small government, at least weekly church attendance types) more so than the granola crunchy bunch. So, in my experience at least, I’m not entirely sure it breaks down among party lines, though my experience may be anomalous. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/17 "2018-03-10T22:32:44Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > We’ll, it’s not what the woman wants; it’s what the child needs. And it’s completely natural. It’s what the woman wants in the sense that it’s more convenient. I believe the argument has also been put forth that if women have to leave business meetings and lunches to feed their babies it puts them at a disadvantage in the workplace. I, myself, am not necessarily opposed to public breast-feeding. But many people are, and for the reasons I stated. Their belief would be that the woman should take the baby into a bathroom to be fed privately, or fed from a bottle filled in advance. As for the ‘it’s natural’ argument, the other items I mentioned are natural as well. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/18 "2018-03-10T22:37:52Z")
I’m fine with the breastfeeding. But I can’t say the word “gubernatorial” without feeling embarrassed and giggling. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/19 "2018-03-10T22:51:07Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Their belief would be that the woman should take the baby into a bathroom to be fed privately. Would you eat in a toilet? ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279/20 "2018-03-11T01:39:08Z")
Total baloney. You might use a different take if her hair is off or she mispronounced an “r.” But a baby feeding, oh, no one noticed that was going on. They probably didn’t notice all the shots of the production crew that somehow snuck in there either, If true then what the hell is wrong with the husband that he can’t take care of a crying baby for two minutes so his wife can film her commercial? It’s in there because they wanted it in there. To say otherwise doesn’t make her look honest. But, it’s about the smallest lie we 'll ever get from a politician. If it comes down to her and Walker she’ll have to do much worse to lose my vote. > [@Penfeather](#): > > Would you eat in a toilet? Would I be eating what the baby’s eating? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-gubernatorial-candidate-casually-breastfeeds-her-daughter-in-campaign-ad/810279.md?page=2)