TIME Cover Offends Feminists... Because the Breastfeeding Mom is Too Pretty

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | May 15, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

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[KC Burke]

That one is now stolen — priceless.

[cicero2k]

Some comedian said the following:

1. She does’nt not look like a mom, she looks like mom’s yoga instructor.
2. The boy is wearing camo’s, to hide the blowback he is going to get from schoolmates.
3. When the boy is a teenager, mom will not like any of his girlfriends.
4. Ultimately, the pair will be managing a cheap motel together, live in a Victorian on a hill and mom will really be a skeleton.

[Da Coyote]

Substitue Helen Thomas’s pic in place of the lady, that’ll permanently remove this meme from the universe.

Forever.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Well, with Helen, the kid wouldn’t have to stand on a chair.

[ilovesarah2012]

I heard the boy was a month away from four. I found the cover insulting because I felt it was just to be controversial. I don’t care if some woman breasts-feeds til her kid is in college. But it does seem sick to me personally. The kid is obviously old enough to get his nutrition from real food.

[Finny]

Yeah -- not because the breast-feeding mom is allowing herself to be treated like a vending machine by a child perfectly capable of getting the same nutrition from a source much more convenient for the mother.

Some idiot posted a few days ago that breast-feeding kids as old as toddlers, old enough to talk, was "the way humans lived up until the last 100 years or so." Yeah -- right! As if in the Pioneer American West or a middle-class 18th century European city or town, any toddler who ran up to his/her mom while she was busy working or perhaps socializing, and yanked down her shirt to nurse, would be tolerated.

And food for thought: what kind of response do you suppose we'd be seeing if instead of a three-year-old boy at the teat, it was a three-year-old girl? Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

[Las Vegas Ron]

Well, with Helen, the kid wouldn’t have to stand on a chair.

Yeah, he could just lay on the floor and suck up!

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, kids were breastfed as toddlers in the 19th, early 20th century. Read some fiction like a “Tree Grows in Brooklyn” which has a classic chapter on a little brat who refuses to be weaned.

A lot of the breastfeeding had to do with not becoming pregnant.

And I’ll never forget Zelda Fitzgerald’s remark that she was breastfed until “she could chew sticks.” That would have been around 1905.

I hate this photo. It is in very bad taste and will cause that dumb kid a life of heartache.

[Kaslin]

Now that’s a new one, (and a good one) I haven’t seen this one yet

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Has anyone done the back ground on this photo.

Are they ^really^ mother and child? Does “daddy” have any opinion or is he just comfortable sitting in his growth medium?

[Mercat]

I should know this but who’s the sucker?

[Mercat]

I should know this but who’s the sucker?

[Tailback]

blowback my rear end. Mom’s hot, all his male friends are envious.

Do I really need to quote Laz here?

[JediJones]

[22cal]

Absolutely agree with every point, MM. Yes, toddlers were nursed, and they retired to another room and/or used a covering (did not show the breast). When one nurses toddlers it is not relevant what gender they happen to be.

There is a family story about my great-grand-father who lived in Eastern Tennessee. One day strangers visited the house (a very unusual circumstance). He was 4 or 5 years old at the time. He grabbed his mother's skirts and pulled her behind a door and said, "Hey Ma, give me a swig or two." This was for reassurance.

He was not stifled or weird and became a school-master. He finished raising four children alone after his wife died in the horrible flu pandemic of 1918.

[Finny]

Good post -- I hadn't thought of the advantages of breasteeding in order to avoid pregnancy! I just re-read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn last year, A very moving and informative book. Even there, though, it boils down to the parent lacking the moxie to exercise proper discipline of the kid. And somehow, I doubt very much that toddler breastfeeding was common or accepted in public places. Certainly in the days and circles of Jane Austen, in the early 1800s, public breastfeeding would have been vulgar beyond words. And again, in the Pioneer West, where women were busy with crucial chores from morning 'til night, I imagine it was a slovenly mother who would tolerate it, and an exhibitionist who would breastfeed toddlers in public, when standards of modesty were much more strict than today.

Discreet public breastfeeding of a babe in arms is one thing. Allowing a 3-year-old to bully a woman into exposing herself in public was probably as indicative of bad priorities then as it is now.

[Finny]

See my post #19. :^)