For example, nature -- not intellect -- created breastfeeding, so by definition breastfeeding is natural.
However, a major medical journal has just published a study arguing that calling nature "natural" is "unethical," because truth is problematic or something:
It’s “ethically inappropriate” for government and medical organizations to describe breastfeeding as “natural” because the term enforces rigid notions about gender roles, claims a new study in Pediatrics.
“Coupling nature with motherhood… can inadvertently support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women in the family (for example, that women should be the primary caretaker,” the study says..."
No comments:
Post a Comment