I've done both too. Formula feeding does take a long time sometimes, but it's easier to delegate.

Of course you should fight for breastfeeding rights - I've been a loud advocate for respecting nursing in public and longer maternity leave to anyone who'll listen for a long while now.

But he's not really presenting an opinion on how his child is raised. His opinion is "Those are MY boobies, dammit."

But it could have nothing to do with breastfeeding- perhaps parents who breastfeed are generally more likely to be higher earning, with better access to education for their kids?

One quote I've heard (and I'm sad to say I don't know who to attribute it to) bandied about is that "Breastfeeding is only free if a woman's time is worth nothing." But yeah, I wanted to breastfeed for many reasons, including that I'm a total cheapass, but ultimately it did not work out for a variety of physiological…

It also really pisses me off because what, women who choose (or have circumstances choose for them) formula aren't bonding with their babies? I just sat and rocked my baby and sang to him for forty minutes while he finished a bottle and dozed, but that doesn't count because my tit wasn't in his mouth, I guess.

Hostility like this is often a defense mechanism from women who had trouble with breastfeeding for one reason or another, in my experience.

This comment is absolute perfection. Also it made me laugh really hard. Because Mitt Romney.

"I'll take that under consideration" followed by a saccharine smile has featured heavily in my own personal vernacular as of late.

Truly. I was in the grocery store with my little dude the other day, and I let him play with the loaf of bread. Predictably, he started mouthing it a little, and some older lady, horrified, said, "Should he be chewing on that?" I was like ummm he doesn't have teeth, so. I'm trying to build up his immune system, people!

Yeah, exactly. :( I'm so sorry that happened to your niece, ugh. It's a depressingly common story.

You honestly think the cops would have even bothered doing anything but hanging up and laughing?

I'm really not comfortable with shaming dudes for having small penises. I don't think that's okay.

Did you see the episode where Data punched a guy in the bar after half a dozen tequila shots? Then Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher hooked up in the hot tub.

Cat penises are all tucked up inside until the appropriate situation arises, fwiw. I mean, I think so at least? I have two boy cats and I've NEVER seen their penises.

No kidding. Get your own identity, please.

All arguments about alcohol during pregnancy aside (though I am STAUNCHLY against), that alcohol is first filtered through the mother's liver/blood/etc. It's not like directly pouring a Bud Light down the umbilical cord.

There's the pizza place's owner's liquor license to consider as well. : / If he got that taken away because of something like this, it'd be bye bye business.

Right, because feminists and nerds don't overlap or anything.

Fuck me. Adoption, again? Yes. Infertile people NEVER EVER consider adoption EVER, and aren't encouraged to adopt by strangers and friends and family alike.