How can you stand to be around those assholes? I don’t think I could refrain from punching them in the face when they start spouting that bullshit. I hope you’ve told them they’re vile human beings.

The crux of their “pro-life” agenda is that a fetus is a human being that should be protected, that abortion is murdering babies. If that’s actually what they believe, then they should also care to prevent and treat miscarriages. (Because when a pregnant woman is bleeding, they may be in distress but the miscarriage…

It is incredibly disturbing that people like to yell “but they committed a crime!” as if that justifies kidnapping and locking up their children. And the republicans are pushing the idea that “well American families get separated too when parents commit crimes and end up in jail” - yeah, their children aren’t ALSO put…

The thing is that there is some measure of editorial direction in what they choose to publish. They’re not publishing every opinion piece that gets submitted - they make a choice. Ideally, that choice will reflect pieces that make good arguments that the readership may not have otherwise thought of. The best opinion…

But the trouble is that it’s not particularly well written. It makes no real points based on anything other than “he’s respected and has credentials.” Is that actually “a liberal’s case” for him?

This is great and perfect.

Thank you. I get that there are people, especially in less industrialized countries, that had the opposite experience and I don’t want to come off as downplaying the seriousness of that which I think I may have in my first post. I just want us to reach some middle ground.

Seriously people, I don’t need to keep being told that it’s an opinion piece and not reflective of the views of the NYT editors. You do all understand they still choose what to publish right? They’re not just publishing every opinion piece submitted to them. And they still have a duty to publish stuff that isn’t total…

I get that they’re opinion pieces, and not news. That’s literally what they’re called. But the paper decides which opinions they want to give a platform to. They aren’t going to post every single thing that gets offered to them - they make a choice. And they often, I believe, make a choice to publish something…

Know that your experience is incredibly common, and I believe it’s actually typical and expected for the baby to lose some weight at the very beginning while mom’s milk is coming in. I know my pedi and lactation consultant told me that they expect some weight loss and don’t get concerned unless it drops below a…

Absolutely! There is middle ground somewhere where we support both breastfeeding and formula feeding, whatever works for that particular family. Neither one should be pushed.

Ah yes, David Brooks. I remember reading some HAWT TAKES from that asshole. Why the hell do they give that a platform? (For the clicks, I know.)

I think you’re right. And like many of us have been saying for a while, people bending over backwards to seem balanced and present “both sides” often ends up causing an unbalanced presentation. Like how newspapers love to show “both sides” of the climate change debate by bringing up scientists that deny it, but Bill…

I could be wrong, but I think op-eds aren’t typically by actual employees of the newspaper?

“Vet” was a poor choice of words on my part. I get that it’s an opinion piece. I stand by the rest of my comment. 

They concede that because it’s a legal requirement that they do so, at least in the US. And I did say “pretty damn close”, not equal. Thing is, most of the research that people tend to point to demonstrate development gaps (typically in brain development and immunity) is mostly outdated. There were much bigger gaps…

I definitely didn’t do a good enough job of making my comment specific to the US experience, because I got a flood of comments like yours. I understand that the issue is different in developing countries and was trying to explain that I can see where the US would feel this isn’t something we need. But if this is…

I get that, and have now responded to several other comments saying the same. That is very much not the experience in the US, which is all I was trying to say. 

Yes, there were early myths here in the late 1800s when formula was developed about formula being better than breast milk too. I get that formula marketing bullshit is a thing, and still is in other places even if it hasn’t been in the US for decades. And I get that breast milk is a much easier option for pathogen…

I feel you so hard. So hard. And you’re just out of the hospital - this is the hardest time and it will get easier soon.