So, I wrote up a post for Hannah Blog entitled, Segregation for Sucklings?, because the reason segregation keeps rearing its head as a response to some social need seems to be as primitively rooted as suckling or sucking is. Also, given the close connection between politics and the distribution of goodies, known as "pork," it seems quite natural to elaborate on that theme. After all, the esteemed former Senator Alan Simpson has recently imagined the entire U.S. population as nothing more than three hundred million sucklings at the public teat.
Then, in the interest of scholarship, I checked with Google, using the phrase "segregation sucklings" only to be informed by WikiIslam that "Adult Suckling" is a pressing contemporary concern as a proposed "sollution" to the problem of gender segregation encountered in the business environment.
Twisted logic surfaces universally.
A woman is forced to wear a veil to prevent herself from becoming harassed. To avoid the veil, she has to breastfeed a strange man.
The WikiIslam entry refers to the Al-Azhar University in Kairo, where the scholar who discovered this "sollution" in the holy texts is employed, as
one of the most repudiated universities of the Islamic world!
as well as
the world´s most renowned Islamic university by all Sunni Muslims.
One suspects the writer meant "reputed" instead of "repudiated," but the subconscious might also have been at work.
In any event, it's a serious matter.
The scholar of Al-Azhar University explained his ruling in an interview given to Al-Watani Al-Yawm, a weekly newspaper published by Egypt's ruling National Democratic Front party.
and
Dr. Atiyya repeatedly declared that the sources he quoted belonged to the Islamic holy texts with the highest possible authority. According to him no less than 90,000 contemporary scholars confirmed that the hadith referred to is authentic.
so
The Muslim Brotherhood criticised the fatwa harshly and took the matter to parliament, thus putting pressure on the Egyptian government.
I will leave you with a quote from an essay by a Canadian feminist,
Robyn Lee, as evidence that illogic thrives.
The issue has not died, as this June two high profile sheiks recommended that women breastfeed adult men in order to be able to have unfettered social contact with them. Sheikh Al Obeikan recommended that this be done via expressed milk, while sheik Abi Ishaq Al Huwaini argued that men should suckle directly from women’s breasts (Reso, 2010) . In response to these edicts Saudi women launched a campaign for the right to drive, threatening to breastfeed their foreign drivers and turn them into sons if their demand is not met (Sandels, 2010). This political action not only undermines the patriarchal family structure, but also nationalism.
Also, one might ask if there is anything to which ulterior motives can't be attached. Ms. Lee reports without contradiction:
Fox argues that intensive or attachment parenting is only possible in middle class families. Breastfeeding is a key component of intensive mothering because it is believed to enhance the bond between mother and child. Middle class parents are more likely to endorse attachment parenting because it is believed to inculcate the traits necessary for professional employment when children grow up.
Of course, it it's true that breastfeeding promotes the culture of obedience in the sucklings, then the millennials' reluctance to go along with artificial hierarchies and social segregation may well be blamed on them being bottle-fed.