I have written a few posts on Facebook about the measles with my usual flare for "riding two horses with one ass" (a Hungarian saying my ex, the Hungarian used to say about me, sometimes in humor and often in frustration - the guy who said, pick a side and I will debate the other side), and this quote as my foundation:
"The technique of infamy is to invent two lies and to get people to argue heatedly over which of them is true." Ezra Pound
I have this to say about vaccines, gun control, racial injustice, police brutality, bullying, rape, feminism, child abuse, porn, abortion, war, climate change,... fracking, poverty ... whatever you are polarized about ... Mommy War and Choice ...and arguing about:
"The technique of infamy is to invent two lies and to get people to argue heatedly over which of them is true." Ezra Pound
I have this to say about vaccines, gun control, racial injustice, police brutality, bullying, rape, feminism, child abuse, porn, abortion, war, climate change,... fracking, poverty ... whatever you are polarized about ... Mommy War and Choice ...and arguing about:
I believe without a doubt, and I believe someday soon that the world will know (US probably last) that the separation of the mama-baby at birth for unnecessary, invasive acts is the core issue of everything we suffer from. The root.
This is the time when disturbed that wires the baby's neural system (brain) to be (unconsciously) dependent on systems (strangers, medicine, obstetrics which is pseudo science based). The human baby - each of us - were in our most potent, defining moment other than conception. The experience of separation at this profound moment - meant for connection - wired our brains and relationship with mother and world.
Mother has huge, huge experience at this most powerful, but vulnerable time meant for her to be in her power as woman. The experience of separation usurps power of mother by disrupting her instincts that are to be defined and empowered in this moment of meeting her baby outside the womb and her baby meeting her. Disrupting this time - minutes and hours after birth meant for connection and attachment - programs mama-baby for loss, pain, and disconnect. This allows for systems to override her instincts from that moment on.
Baby's nervous system is in critical period of brain development is learning. Our brains do not go to "off" to accommodate harsh and disruptive people and procedures. It programs baby (programmed each of us when we were newborn baby girl or boy) to connect and attach to others in the room and to pain and loss ... As normal.
This, my friend, disturbed labor and birth and mama-baby connection outside womb -attachment - is the root cause of War on women and the Mommy War. The "theys" - authority and politicians - need women to fight over actions and protocols designed and defined by them, and lumped together as women's "choice" and "rights" but ignores the question of "When does your baby have rights, a choice?" The system wants women to forget that she is making choices for her baby as well as herself. It is maintained by many generations of (men/medicine) disturbing women's most powerful act: bringing forth another human being AND separating baby from mother.
Vaccine war, gun control war, racial injustice war, police brutality, bullying, rape, feminism, child abuse, porn, abortion, war, climate change, fracking, poverty ... whatever you are polarized about ... Mommy War and Choice ...and arguing about .. The war on the war... IS a result of and is maintained by disrupting birth, by abusing the newborn baby, and by separation of the mama-baby.
By the way, here's a video being hailed as so great. Think again. Mommy Wars.
I posted it with this comment: "Damn. I thought at the end it was actually going to be about the baby. What nature and science say human baby needs, not a la carte parenting. Pouting."
This is the time when disturbed that wires the baby's neural system (brain) to be (unconsciously) dependent on systems (strangers, medicine, obstetrics which is pseudo science based). The human baby - each of us - were in our most potent, defining moment other than conception. The experience of separation at this profound moment - meant for connection - wired our brains and relationship with mother and world.
Mother has huge, huge experience at this most powerful, but vulnerable time meant for her to be in her power as woman. The experience of separation usurps power of mother by disrupting her instincts that are to be defined and empowered in this moment of meeting her baby outside the womb and her baby meeting her. Disrupting this time - minutes and hours after birth meant for connection and attachment - programs mama-baby for loss, pain, and disconnect. This allows for systems to override her instincts from that moment on.
Baby's nervous system is in critical period of brain development is learning. Our brains do not go to "off" to accommodate harsh and disruptive people and procedures. It programs baby (programmed each of us when we were newborn baby girl or boy) to connect and attach to others in the room and to pain and loss ... As normal.
This, my friend, disturbed labor and birth and mama-baby connection outside womb -attachment - is the root cause of War on women and the Mommy War. The "theys" - authority and politicians - need women to fight over actions and protocols designed and defined by them, and lumped together as women's "choice" and "rights" but ignores the question of "When does your baby have rights, a choice?" The system wants women to forget that she is making choices for her baby as well as herself. It is maintained by many generations of (men/medicine) disturbing women's most powerful act: bringing forth another human being AND separating baby from mother.
Vaccine war, gun control war, racial injustice war, police brutality, bullying, rape, feminism, child abuse, porn, abortion, war, climate change, fracking, poverty ... whatever you are polarized about ... Mommy War and Choice ...and arguing about .. The war on the war... IS a result of and is maintained by disrupting birth, by abusing the newborn baby, and by separation of the mama-baby.
By the way, here's a video being hailed as so great. Think again. Mommy Wars.
I posted it with this comment: "Damn. I thought at the end it was actually going to be about the baby. What nature and science say human baby needs, not a la carte parenting. Pouting."
Christa Battle, friend, responded: "My thoughts exactly. Parenting has become so 'parent centered' with egos and pride and mommy/daddy wants and needs coming first..."
Exactly what I am talking about!!
Exactly what I am talking about!!
Friend and colleague, Andrea Nielson-Void says it well, "Cos it's a formula ad trying to shut up anyone who mentions breastfeeding and bottle feeding isn't the same...It's very good at making anyone who mentions it's an ad aimed at improving the perception of a formula company look like they're contributing to the mommy wars and don't think women are just doing their best for their family."
In other words, this video is serving to inflame the Mommy Wars, and tragically, it is doing so by perpetuating confusion about WHO our choices are about, and by presenting two (multiple lies) and promoting people arguing about them ... heatedly. THEN, it shows them all racing to save the baby, but then gives the propaganda response in that touching, emotional moment. It's about the parents.
Speaking of "it's about the parents" ... here's another epistle of a response I shared on another Facebook post:
Melissa Andersen... you raise a point I was discussing with someone ... A new ah ha I had ... How vaccines are one more aspect of how the rights of women and choice fuels wrong choices for children.
You said, and it classically shows this conflict and contradiction:
"I refuse to buy into the "But measles aren't always deadly" no- but they are often devastating. I worked as an administrator at a school where one mom had a child that caught the measles. She couldn't come to school. She couldn't go to work. She became behind in classes and couldn't graduate on time- which meant I could not place her with a position until she took another semester of courses. She had to go back and live with her family who wound up abusing her kids. Because her son had the measles. So yes, I understand that this mom is out of work for a long time because of possible exposure. I would be pissed too. It is serious. And needs to be treated as a serious disease."
So measles aren't deadly but the inconvenience to society is devastating? So it needs to be treated as a serious disease? Measles is not a serious disease but this debate IS a symptom of culture and it's systems that does not support mothering.
The answer to children getting sick and this cascading into poverty (so can so many things cause that*) is not to shoot children up with vaccines ...so they can continue to be in institutionized care so their mothers can prove equality by making a living. (Read Mothering Denied now called Mothering Matters).
*time caring for my father as he passed interrupted my time and income... But we don't put our elders down like we do animals so that we can move on with our life. Loss of job, cancer, leaving marriage, slipping on a banana peel and breaking your leg are just some of the things that can happen in our culture that put us on path to poverty ... because we as a culture do not provide a safety net for everyone... because of that, most of us are financially a paycheck away from devastation.
The answer is to fund mothering. FOR CHILREN'S SAKE. Not for women's rights, but future men and women's rights. The babies and children.
There is a big difference in saying that measles are devastating but not deadly because it inconveniences women who are terribly unsupported by their culture. It justifies doing it?! Something that generations of us have experienced? Something that science shows is done wrong?
I know someone whose roommate in the eighties was recruited by the government, and his tuition provided and his housing provided and the new car provided, and he was groomed to "make germs." This is part of the engineered poverty. There is no humane reason for a woman to go into (worst) poverty because her child is sick. This is - vaccination of children - is part of collective decision based on poor values, based on social engineering.
I totally get what you are saying. My own experience as a child and as a mother, and decades of looking at this engineering on backs of children made my ah ha moment this week. My third and fourth children had chicken pox at the most inconvenient time for my job and work. My third came down with the chicken pox the day his father left for a conference for 5 days. I was to do a presentation at work which I cancelled. Wasn't well received as I was in university where women were fighting the fight - for rights. 1986ish. You can thank "us" for both vaccines being normalized and for poverty. Not the systems and people leading us by our noses.
Fourth came down with the chicken pox when we traveled from Illinois to New York for a job interview. Her health and safety were a risk only because we could have potentially been unable to find a quiet place for her to recover. Fortunately I stayed with my sister in same city & I took more time off. You'd think I'd be big advocate for getting those kids vaccinated. Nope. I was thinking of when I had measles, mumps, and chicken pox, fondly almost - not "oh my god I was so sick" - because of the time with my mom being cared for. Same with my kids. It was a full week of me just caring for my son and daughter. Same with first two. It's hardly the end of the world to be mom when kids need us.
I have been a single parent several times with multiple marriages, so I am very fully aware of the issues related to being a single mother. And the complications of children being sick, in particular to women with hourly jobs. But, those are symptoms of the "serious disease".
This lack of regard for children and lack of support for mothering (while funding war) is a cultural shame and it is cultural neglect, from a very long standing entrenched disregard for mothering, and further it is a disregard for children, hence humans.
We need as a culture to fund mothering. There is enough money to do and to end poverty. It just needs to be the will of those in charge of money.
Www.theothersideoftheglass.com a birth film for and about men is my film about how we can create the world we say we want by protecting the mama - baby relationship at birth.
Alicia Collins-Goveia summed it up well for me: "Well put Janel!! I thought the same thing when I read that... So get the MMR vax so you don't end up homeless?? What??? Ok... Said mother could have also missed two weeks of school due to a miscarriage, pneumonia, cancer treatment etc.
Measles wasn't the problem in that sorry. Our system is..."
This kind of conundrum thinking is what prevails in our culture, because we believe one of the two lies and do not look at the information, the research, and we believe in the fear. Fear fed and fueled by the keepers of systems who make a lot of money is the cause of the heated debates over two lies.
In other words, this video is serving to inflame the Mommy Wars, and tragically, it is doing so by perpetuating confusion about WHO our choices are about, and by presenting two (multiple lies) and promoting people arguing about them ... heatedly. THEN, it shows them all racing to save the baby, but then gives the propaganda response in that touching, emotional moment. It's about the parents.
Speaking of "it's about the parents" ... here's another epistle of a response I shared on another Facebook post:
Melissa Andersen... you raise a point I was discussing with someone ... A new ah ha I had ... How vaccines are one more aspect of how the rights of women and choice fuels wrong choices for children.
You said, and it classically shows this conflict and contradiction:
"I refuse to buy into the "But measles aren't always deadly" no- but they are often devastating. I worked as an administrator at a school where one mom had a child that caught the measles. She couldn't come to school. She couldn't go to work. She became behind in classes and couldn't graduate on time- which meant I could not place her with a position until she took another semester of courses. She had to go back and live with her family who wound up abusing her kids. Because her son had the measles. So yes, I understand that this mom is out of work for a long time because of possible exposure. I would be pissed too. It is serious. And needs to be treated as a serious disease."
So measles aren't deadly but the inconvenience to society is devastating? So it needs to be treated as a serious disease? Measles is not a serious disease but this debate IS a symptom of culture and it's systems that does not support mothering.
The answer to children getting sick and this cascading into poverty (so can so many things cause that*) is not to shoot children up with vaccines ...so they can continue to be in institutionized care so their mothers can prove equality by making a living. (Read Mothering Denied now called Mothering Matters).
*time caring for my father as he passed interrupted my time and income... But we don't put our elders down like we do animals so that we can move on with our life. Loss of job, cancer, leaving marriage, slipping on a banana peel and breaking your leg are just some of the things that can happen in our culture that put us on path to poverty ... because we as a culture do not provide a safety net for everyone... because of that, most of us are financially a paycheck away from devastation.
The answer is to fund mothering. FOR CHILREN'S SAKE. Not for women's rights, but future men and women's rights. The babies and children.
There is a big difference in saying that measles are devastating but not deadly because it inconveniences women who are terribly unsupported by their culture. It justifies doing it?! Something that generations of us have experienced? Something that science shows is done wrong?
I know someone whose roommate in the eighties was recruited by the government, and his tuition provided and his housing provided and the new car provided, and he was groomed to "make germs." This is part of the engineered poverty. There is no humane reason for a woman to go into (worst) poverty because her child is sick. This is - vaccination of children - is part of collective decision based on poor values, based on social engineering.
I totally get what you are saying. My own experience as a child and as a mother, and decades of looking at this engineering on backs of children made my ah ha moment this week. My third and fourth children had chicken pox at the most inconvenient time for my job and work. My third came down with the chicken pox the day his father left for a conference for 5 days. I was to do a presentation at work which I cancelled. Wasn't well received as I was in university where women were fighting the fight - for rights. 1986ish. You can thank "us" for both vaccines being normalized and for poverty. Not the systems and people leading us by our noses.
Fourth came down with the chicken pox when we traveled from Illinois to New York for a job interview. Her health and safety were a risk only because we could have potentially been unable to find a quiet place for her to recover. Fortunately I stayed with my sister in same city & I took more time off. You'd think I'd be big advocate for getting those kids vaccinated. Nope. I was thinking of when I had measles, mumps, and chicken pox, fondly almost - not "oh my god I was so sick" - because of the time with my mom being cared for. Same with my kids. It was a full week of me just caring for my son and daughter. Same with first two. It's hardly the end of the world to be mom when kids need us.
I have been a single parent several times with multiple marriages, so I am very fully aware of the issues related to being a single mother. And the complications of children being sick, in particular to women with hourly jobs. But, those are symptoms of the "serious disease".
This lack of regard for children and lack of support for mothering (while funding war) is a cultural shame and it is cultural neglect, from a very long standing entrenched disregard for mothering, and further it is a disregard for children, hence humans.
We need as a culture to fund mothering. There is enough money to do and to end poverty. It just needs to be the will of those in charge of money.
Www.theothersideoftheglass.com a birth film for and about men is my film about how we can create the world we say we want by protecting the mama - baby relationship at birth.
Alicia Collins-Goveia summed it up well for me: "Well put Janel!! I thought the same thing when I read that... So get the MMR vax so you don't end up homeless?? What??? Ok... Said mother could have also missed two weeks of school due to a miscarriage, pneumonia, cancer treatment etc.
Measles wasn't the problem in that sorry. Our system is..."
This kind of conundrum thinking is what prevails in our culture, because we believe one of the two lies and do not look at the information, the research, and we believe in the fear. Fear fed and fueled by the keepers of systems who make a lot of money is the cause of the heated debates over two lies.
