Breastfeeding man = risque?
OK, who can explain to me why a poster of a man breastfeeding at work would be controversial? I just can’t see it.
Let’s tick off the elements:
A man in a suit with his chest exposed. If this was a problem, most Guess ads would be banned.
A man holding his child. Can’t even imagine a problem there.
A man with his child on his chest. I’ve seen that in Sears catalogs, for cryin’ out loud.
A baby in a diaper. Um, yeah.
An office. Uh-huh.
I got it. It must be the poster of Lucy Lawless’ legs on the wall.
Seriously, though, the real reason it was pulled was the same reason it was made: it makes people think about the double-standard we still have. If men needed to breastfeed at work, do you think there’d be any problem?
Posted by Chris in Politics on August 1st, 2003 Edit this page's grammar and spelling with Emend.
My first thought was that a mouth on a nipple, especially when said nipple isn’t female, would be easy to see as sexual and therefore creepy. But when I saw the poster, it wasn’t sexual at all. Hm. Don’t know.
It’s ideology busting. Shakes up people’s notions of what’s “true and normal.”
They’re a bunch of sissies for pulling the ad for the very reason it was created.