There are exceptions to every rule, and I would hope that those people in extreme situations would be able to recognise that they are the exception. I'm talking about the majority, not everyone.
Taking the comments in the first article at absolute face value, on their own they are a fairly innocuous set of comments. But the way we will react to them is different depending on who says them aren't they? If you had some random stranger say anything on that list to you, you'd write it off right away and think 'who cares what they think', but if the people saying it to you are closer to you, or come from people who you hold in high regard (or any regard for that matter) then it starts to cut deep. Not everyone has the emotional strength to not let those sorts of comments affect them to some degree. As for the comment about not loving your baby for example, if a random said that to me I'd shrug it off, but if it came from someone close to me, someone who actually knew me, I'd be pretty damn hurt by it regardless of how I actually felt about not BFing kwim?
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