I don't think the OP meant that at all. It wasn't a judgemental statement, just that a stay-at-home mom (and I've been working since my baby was four weeks old) has less daycare germs, more control, and more time to make meals from scratch.

Yep. The US would be more obese, regardless of breastfeeding.

I stopped going on facebook, thanks to that ONE PERSON who was such a militant breastfeeder with her first (and at the time, only) child, that she would post very similar claims about her all important breastfeeding saving her child from all the ills of the world.

You hit on the right cause, wrong conclusion. Power corrupts. Take away power, and religion takes on a whole new level, doesn't it?

See, while I'm not disagreeing with your statement, but how do you go from this story to that conclusion? Yesterday Jezebel had an article about a guy that "helped" women go to pageants by telling them to sleep with him. He convinced her that the relationship was okay.

Thanks for the links.

I'm not all that offended in general. I'm just saying that you can target the title because it's part and parcel of the article in question.

Well, maybe her article should have a better title, then. But Jezebel trolls for page clicks, and I have to admit, I clicked because the title was so offensive.

Okay. So I used to do HIV research, but it's been a while. I looked up the website you listed, and a few things:

Yes. Me, sometimes. I find that seltzer or my soda stream makes it more palatable.

That poster questioned whether the baby was HIV positive at all, and tests showed that yes, HIV positive. Even if those cells had been maternal, those cells could have established infection if not otherwise treated.

Yeah, I'm not sure why this backlash is necessary. The original article seemed pretty straightforward: The baby had circulating HIV cells, whether maternal or not, and the high dose cocktail prevented HIV from maintaining a reservoir, something that hadn't been attempted in an infant before. This isn't a "HIV has…

100% of all models are skinnier and taller than you and I. At least there's some runway models that are WOC. There's absolutely none that are 5'1. Someone bring me justice!

Quality over quantity!

Yeah, I read that rat-sugar "study". It's published in a terrible journal for a good reason. The experiment has a lot of problems, and its statistical analysis is poorly done.

Yeah. You're quoting from a really crappy journal with terrible peer reviews. Just reading through the rat-behavioral experiment, I can come up with three separate and distinct flaws in the construction that would skew results. Plus, their statistical calculations are off. Wake me up when someone with actual…

WORD. And my body's metabolism is messed up now, too. And why does my back ache?!

EXACTLY. 34 here, too, and all of a sudden I've got some wrinkles and a gray hair and my skin looks different and my body didn't really handle pregnancy so well, and I'm depressed because my career isn't making me nearly the amount of money I thought it would.

I really don't agree with you here. I know you keep repeating these statements over and over again, but there's no real proof that soda is "addicting" in the way alcohol and nicotine are.