Posted on 09/13/2012 8:51:55 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
One day late last month at American University, Adrienne Pine was in a jam. The assistant anthropology professor was scheduled to begin her course "Sex, Gender & Culture." But her baby daughter woke up with a fever, and the single mother worried that she had no good child-care options.
So Pine brought her sick baby to class.
The baby, in a blue onesie, crawled on the floor when she wasn't strapped onto Pine's back. The mother extracted a paper clip from the girl's mouth at one point and shooed her away from an electrical outlet. When the baby grew restless during the 75-minute afternoon session with 40 students, according to the professor's account, Pine breast-fed her while continuing to lecture and review the syllabus. A teaching assistant also held and rocked the child.
At the conclusion of her lecture, Pine figured that was the end of it. But word of the unusual opening-day class was spreading via Twitter and Facebook.
When a reporter for the student newspaper asked her about what happened, Pine grew incensed. She decided to get in the first word with an online essay titled "The Dialectics of Breastfeeding on Campus: Exposiing my Breasts on the Internet." In it, Pine wrote that she was "shocked and annoyed that this would be considered newsworthy."
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I agree she did this on purpose. It is bully behavior. Pick pick pick until someone fights back and then claim victim.
I am assuming that she knew the baby was coming for about six months or so. She had plenty of time to figure out alternate care strategies. BTW - Where is the father?
For modesty purposes, the “it” thing to have is a hooter hider/nursing cover. I make these for my new mom friends all the time.
I bet there is a policy somewhere at American that states that students should not have their children in class. It should be the same for their professors.
I also noticed that she is a fourth year assistant professor. She is probably up for tenure this year or next year. Wonder if this will be taken into account.
Meh, she's a feminist whackjob making a statement. this might have been the highest level of professionalism that she was capable of.
Guiltity.
Excuse me while I whip this out . . . .
The article refers to her as a single mom. The Lord only knows what that means in this case I assumed that her daycare provider will not take a child who is running a fever if they have more than one child to care for. That’s pretty standard. The working moms I know all have a backup daycare provider to step in when a child is ill. In this family, that’s gramma (me).
I don’t believe I have ever seen a “hooter hider”. Love the name. Shoot, we always used receiving blankets. Old fashioned unfolded cloth diapers worked too.
Worthless, waste of money, taught by another meaningless degree holder.
And that, right there, is why they make classes like this “core requirements.”
Heck, I was forced to take a “diversity training seminar” given by the “Staff Development Office.” Looking at the people “teaching” the seminar, I could only conclude that the course; indeed their whole department, were created as a way to “employ” useless eaters.
I know she is single. I suspect that was by design too. I guess I am becoming less tolerant of women who have the child just because they want it and don’t realize the importance of the second parent. If you are going to waive the single mom flag I think we should be allowed to ask that question. (I have yet to meet a widow who does as much as the never marrieds).
Hooter hiders are essentially a hemmed piece of cloth with and adjustable strap for the mother’s neck, like an apron. They don’t slip and most of them have a piece of boning in between the straps that allows mom to look down, but no one else sees anything. My friends swear by it.
She teaches Sex, Gender & Culture. My guess is she planned this and will write a paper on it and get tenure.
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