I wonder if this is real or ‘staged’. I am small (A-B), but when I was nursing, they were huge, C cups. And they got bigger the older the babies got. This woman looks smaller than I am now. Also, once I saw a petite Asian woman in a restroom at the mall nursing a huge (fat) 3 or 4 year old. Her boobs looked grotesquesly large, not at all like an Aisan woman. Just saying that these don’t look like the breasts of a nursing woman.
Designed to sell copies to jerk-offs, whether they’re turned on by the mom or the little boy. I’m sure it will be one of their top-selling issues, because there are plenty of both types.
There’s no such thing as bad press. The only folks who won’t buy it weren’t going to anyway.
They could have at least used a model well endowed for the task, instead of this skiny , politically correct weeny girl, whose milk generating equipment has a capacity less than a thimble, symbolizing maternal starvation of children.
I feel sorry for the kid, he is being abused.
Time makes little sense as it obscures election issues.
I stopped buying this liberal rag magazine in 1993 and have not read Time Magazine since.
And that's coming from someone who has been a Time Magazine reader since before I was in elementary school, and whose mother was a Time reader prior to World War II.
Luce and the rest of Time's founders would be furious. They certainly weren't ones to place educated discourse and morality above making a buck through sensationalism, but I believe their anti-Communism and radical individualism would have led them to have serious problems with the underlying concept of extreme family bonding that led to this photo.
A FOX News psychiatrist had this to say:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/11/time-magazine-cover-forget-breast-what-about-boy/
The mom herself (who, to her credit, is at least married) said her mother breastfed her until age six and she still remembers it:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/05/jamie_lynne_grumet_time_la_blog.php
I finally let my Time Magazine subscription lapse recently since I was usually reading the magazine online, and I couldn't come up with a good reason why I was paying money to support a liberal publication that I could read for free online. I now wish I'd renewed my subscription when it came due so I could cancel it over this outrage.