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I happily advertise the fact I breastfed – it’s high time that brands embraced it too by Nell Frizzell New ads by Aldi, Adidas and Sainsbury’s all feature breastfeeding mothers. Ho
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Instituto AOCP · 2020
I happily advertise the fact I breastfed – it’s high time that brands embraced it too
by Nell Frizzell
New ads by Aldi, Adidas and Sainsbury’s all feature breastfeeding mothers. Hopefully this will normalize the process to help new parents feed with ease.
It may be some time yet until we see a mother in an advert precariously balancing her child/bag/shopping/pets before pushing a nipple into the mouth of a howling, jam-smeared toddler. But when they do, oh boy, are my days as a model really going to get going.
In recent weeks, a series of adverts have appeared from Tu at Sainsbury’s, Adidas and Aldi, all featuring breastfeeding mothers. Some are wearing flowery blouses and have tattoos, others are holding a naked baby between the zips of a sports top. Of course the women are good-looking, of course they are slim, of course we cannot actually see anything as erotically charged or as morally unsettling as an areola – this is still advertising, after all. But it is, surely, a start.
As someone who breastfed her son for 21 shirtlifting, bra-soaking, carefree months, I am of course pleased to see breastfeeding being held up as something both everyday and aspirational. It is as prosaic as a trip to the supermarket yet as physically impressive as professional sport. It belongs on billboards and screens as much as beds and sofas.
There is no such thing as “normal” when it comes to babies or bodies. But to normalize something that, in the words of UNICEF, has a profoundly positive impact on child health, is of course to be celebrated. You might find yourself whipping out a boob on a train full of football fans; you might squirt milk across somebody else’s coat on the bus; you might find yourself answering the door with your full breast outside your clothes without noticing. And if the presence of big brands behind your bra straps encourage you to keep feeding, then all power to your elbow. It is a shame that this hasn’t happened sooner, but it’s better late than never – and there’s no use crying over spilled (breast) milk.
(Source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/oct/02/adve rts-breastfeeding-mothers-aldi-adidas-sainsburys.Access: 08/01/2020)
Considering the excerpt: “As someone who breastfed her son for 21 shirt-lifting, bra-soaking, carefree months, I am of course pleased (…)”, mark the option which is CORRECT about the usage of pronouns in the sentence.
- The word “who” works as a relative pronoun referring back to “someone” which actually is the writer of the text.
- The word “who” is an interrogative pronoun which can be left out of the sentence without a change in its meaning.
- The word “her” is a personal pronoun and works as the subject for the verb “breastfed”.
- The word “her” is a possessive pronoun referring to the word “son” as the owner of something.
- The word “I” works as an objective pronoun in order to avoid the repetition of the subject “someone”.
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Who é um pronome relativo que retoma o substantivo someone. A oração relativa who breastfed her son for 21… months qualifica esse substantivo, ou seja, acrescenta informação sobre a pessoa mencionada.
Dentro da oração relativa, who exerce a função de sujeito do verbo breastfed; por isso não pode ser eliminado sem prejudicar a estrutura. Em inglês, who é usado especificamente para referência a pessoas, equivalente a que ou quem em português.
O contexto mostra que o antecedente someone corresponde à própria autora do texto, pois a oração principal segue com I, indicando que a pessoa que amamentou é a mesma que fala. O pronome her funciona como adjetivo possessivo, relacionando o substantivo son à mulher referida.
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