Infantilising Politics

Elpais diego

The Spanish media including the El Pais newspaper is full of comment about a new MP, Carolina Bescansa, and her decision to breastfeed new baby Diego in the debating chamber of the country's national Parliament.

Spanish feminists seem more outraged than most (having campaigned for childcare and maternity rights for years) and have been queuing up to point that Carolina had plenty of other options open to her including:

 1 Leaving Diego at home with her (stay-at-home) husband
2 Using the parliament's free nursery service (paid for out of public funds)
3 Using a generous new MP's salary to pay a baby sitter to look after Diego in her office

 All of which ignore the fact, of course, that exploiting baby Diego in this way has attracted the kind of publicity for his mum (and party) that money just can't buy.  

 

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