My fifteen seconds
Aug. 5th, 2008 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanIn all the excitement over the mouse, I neglected to post about my letter to the editor that got published in this past weekend's Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. It was in response to the "Miss Conduct" column about storing breast milk in an office fridge.
Here's the original offending column, titled "Where Breast Milk Shouldn't Go," wherein someone writes to say that she found a bottle of (what she believes is) breast milk in her office fridge, and shouldn't the owner have concealed it in a paper bag? And Miss Conduct replies, essentially, "Eww! That's icky! No one wants to see that!"
Here's a link to the letters section of this past Sunday's magazine. This link goes to page 3 of the letters section, which is where the responses to the breast milk column begin. My letter is on page 4. Click through to read them all -- there were a lot of responses, pretty much all of them in support of bfing/pumping moms and criticizing Miss Conduct.
And here's Miss Conduct's blog entry in which she gives a totally lame and pathetic "response" to the criticisms. I hope you can hear yourself think over the sound of me rolling my eyes.
Anyway, it was fun to get into print, even though of course they didn't print my whole letter (it was long ;) ). And as a bonus, I got a message on Facebook from a former coworker who saw my letter in the paper and sought me out on Facebook just so she could send me a "good for you" note. :)
Here's the original offending column, titled "Where Breast Milk Shouldn't Go," wherein someone writes to say that she found a bottle of (what she believes is) breast milk in her office fridge, and shouldn't the owner have concealed it in a paper bag? And Miss Conduct replies, essentially, "Eww! That's icky! No one wants to see that!"
Here's a link to the letters section of this past Sunday's magazine. This link goes to page 3 of the letters section, which is where the responses to the breast milk column begin. My letter is on page 4. Click through to read them all -- there were a lot of responses, pretty much all of them in support of bfing/pumping moms and criticizing Miss Conduct.
And here's Miss Conduct's blog entry in which she gives a totally lame and pathetic "response" to the criticisms. I hope you can hear yourself think over the sound of me rolling my eyes.
Anyway, it was fun to get into print, even though of course they didn't print my whole letter (it was long ;) ). And as a bonus, I got a message on Facebook from a former coworker who saw my letter in the paper and sought me out on Facebook just so she could send me a "good for you" note. :)
