The fact that pdq never heard of Selma Hayek before says as much about his lack of awareness as anything else. And of course, that's not the only aspect of he's revealed to us here that smacks of ignorance.

The bond between mother and infant while breastfeeding is pretty intimate. I was interested to read that various organizations that promote and support breastfeeding in general, and also support providing one woman's breast milk to another woman's child ("crossfeeding"), are unanimous in emphasizing that they assume that a pump and a bottle be involved when such crossfeeding takes place. No one wants to endorse actual physical contact between lactating women and babies not their own.

I've got to think that racism is an additional factor in some people's negative reaction to this. Not only did Ms Hayek feed someone else's baby; she was feeding a black baby!

Of course when the shoe was on the other foot (bad metaphor, I know), society as a whole competely endorsed the nursing of white babies by black slave/servant wetnurses. If society-as-a-whole is feeling some guilt about that particular aspect of the past, it's probably a good thing ~ but it should not blind us to the virtue and practicality of this wholly humanitarian incident.