The generations who were raised in the fumes of leaded gasoline also seemed "fine" but the long term statistics after we switched to unleaded gasoline show that we're way better off now.
An equivalence that does not bear out for baby formula.
Whoever wants to feed their baby breast milk or formula, do what you want. There’s enough anxiety in raising a child, we should be aware of when we might be increasing it in others for no good reason. GP could’ve supplemented their baby’s diet with formula while his wife was gone and everyone would’ve been fine.
Well said. I'm aware of one large-scale randomized control trial of breastfeeding. It found a slight reduction in ear infections and other infections early in life, and no change in IQ in the teenage years. So yes, breastfeeding has benefits, but the amount of pressure people feel to breastfeed is disproportionately high.
Neither the sentiment nor the difficulty of the problem matters. Big A gets a cut of a sale whether or not the reviews or products are genuine so they won’t do more than the bare minimum to deal with it, until their tide starts to change.
I write, eat, hold a pool cue, golf club, and rifle left-handed but play guitar and hockey right-handed (among other things). Most of my life, my vocabulary defined either “left-handed” or “right-handed” people, where I’d consider you and I left-handed but with right-handed adaptations. (“A lefty living in a right-handed world”) But maybe “mixed handed” is a more accurate term.
Interesting... I'm pretty sure I hold a golf club right handed, but I didn't play much and it was a long time ago so I'm not sure, but I used to play with a friend who was definitely left handed, and he was different to me and everyone else in this respect. I play guitar right handed as well. I've described myself as ambidextrous before, but that's probably incorrect, but it raises the question for me, if that means "equally adapted" how much of that translates into real world activities?
Perhaps "cross-dominant" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance) [which I just came across] is a better term for people like us. I don't view myself as ambidextrous because I'm definitely not equally good with both hands. Rather, handedness for me is strongly preferential based on the task.
It's normal that one shoots right in hockey when one is left-handed (hence the rarity of right shooters). It's counterintuitive when going from years if baseball to hockey for the first time.
I did some further reading and found this rule from 1876 on not playing left handed.
Rule 7: The ball may be stopped, but not carried or knocked, by any part of the body. No player shall raise his stick above his shoulder. The ball shall be played from right to left, and no left or back-handed play, charging, tripping, collaring, (pulling the shirt) or shinning, (hitting the leg) shall be allowed.
The evidence is not at all overwhelming, and flies in the face of a couple of generations of formula fed people who turned out fine.
All anyone does by repeating that line is make people feel bad when they can’t or don’t want to breastfeed. Especially women.