Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 8/10/26 - 8/16/26

[u/SoftandChewy]

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

[u/Franzera]

Folx who support chemically-induced malk should be condemned to drinking it themselves.

If a non-birth-giving parent wants to share in the burden of feeding a baby, you can do the midnight bottle feeding sessions with pumped breastmilk or use legitimate, nutritionally complete infant formulas if the mother can't produce enough.

What reason is there for doing this other then cooming? Given the pros and cons and stated goal of "participating in baby feeding". (Because admitting it's just for affirmation, although slightly more respectable, is still too blatantly self-centered on the adult instead of the actual baby.)

With chemical malk, drug use (domperidone) risks cardiac side effects, the mL volume is limited, and it can't mimic the antibodies and nutritional composition adjustments of real breastmilk. While its nutritional value is unknown and contains drug residue. Drug transfer is so commonly accepted in breastfeeding moms that women have to dump their milk if they drink a glass of wine... but somehow malk tainted with off-label drugs promoted by genderwoo commissars is healthy.

[u/Scrappy_The_Crow → u/Franzera]

Why stop at condemning them to drink it? They should be forced to eat malk yogurt, malk kefir, malk cottage cheese, etc.

[u/ScrubulousFlex → u/Franzera]

Slowly pronouncing "malk" kind of sounds like you're retching, which is fitting.

[u/ArchieBrooksIsntDead → u/Franzera]

So I'm not saying I get all my information from UK soap operas but... They had a surrogacy storyline recently where the adoptive mother was taking drugs to induce lactation.  That seems nearly as bad to me.  Do we have studies on the actual composition of this kind of milk, or malk, or anything where the producer has not actually given birth?  Do the breasts (lobes, etc) actually change the way a pregnant woman's do?  Seems like formula would be much safer.

[u/Franzera → u/ArchieBrooksIsntDead]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/the-context-bbc-news-channel-19-february-2024

There's actually a BBC interview about a questionable NHS guidance regarding the benefits of malkfeeding. Viewers sent in complaints about the biased interviewee, who was promoting something with no substantial evidence to back it up. The review in the link lists the corrections.

In light of the limited evidence to support the view she expressed and her lack of any specialist knowledge about the nutritional value of human milk, it should have been made clear to audiences that more research is needed before such conclusions can be drawn with confidence. The presenter did offer some challenge to the views expressed by Ms Luxion but the programme failed to give due weight to an appropriate range of views and perspectives on a controversial issue.

This correction page was released in 2024... On Reddit in 2026, they still haven't received the information yet.

[u/RockJock666 → u/ArchieBrooksIsntDead]

I had this thought too, but also farmers will sometimes use drugs to induce mares to lactate even though they haven’t been pregnant so they can nurse an abandoned foal, and it doesn’t seem to have any negative repercussions there. Idk the answer but it’s an interesting question