Time magazine cover -- forget the breast, what about the boy?

FoxNews.com ^ | 5-11-2012 | Dr. Keith Ablow

[Boogieman]

“It is only uncommon in western cultures that it has become an issue.”

Is this a bad thing? Lots of things are “only uncommon in western cultures”, and for the most part, I think that our culture is stronger because of these missing elements.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You're absolutely right.

We live in a bizarro world that considers the human body to be obscene.

[Finny]

This woman must be a sick bastardess to do this to her kid.

And Time Magazine is even sicker.

[ModelBreaker]

“My breasts wouldn’t mow the lawn but standing without a shirt in the yard they’d work having someone else to mow the lawn.”

LOL. Probably true. Men are simple.

[Boogieman]

“Breasts are for feeding the young, you have assigned an extra use.”

I’d argue that the Creator of breasts assigned this “extra use”, since they happen to function exactly as one would expect a secondary sexual characteristic to work on nearly 100% of the male heterosexual population. That can’t be explained away by writing if off as perversion.

[Boogieman]

“We live in a bizarro world that considers the human body to be obscene.”

Hey, if you want to go live with the barbarians running around dangling, nobody is stopping you. If you want to live with the civilized folks, put a fig leaf on it.

[Jenny217]

Don’t care how long anyone breastfeeds their kids

Do care about exploiting children for political agendas. It’s disgusting.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Maybe a fig leaf is big enough for you...

[caww]

.....”this is ‘an act of media violence against a child’..., committed by adult journalists who also commandeered his will (as did his mother),... for sensation and profit..... Rarely do we get such evidence of how wrong parenting can go, how poorly journalists can behave and how slow we can be to recognize ugliness when it is disguised as something beautiful”.....

When there are no boundaries anything goes....the most which will occur is a somewhat public outcry....a few TV interviews with mama defending herself ($$$$$)...more photographs and videos ($$$), perhaps a book or something of that nature, ($$$). and then it’ll be history til the next bimbo goes after the dollar.......Meanwhile she’s made a mint and laughs all the way to the bank. End of story.

[Malone LaVeigh]

[Finny]

They don't earn or use much money, so they don't have formula to feed their babies, so they nurse long past the point where inhabitants of the first-world are offended. You have to ask yourself who the real weirdos are.

It's been observed, "There's no 'normal' life. There's just life."

Neither are "weirdos." They're just ways of life -- one in Western Civilization, the other in third-world places where freedom combined with a solid moral framework have yet to liberate their people to prosper. Here, it's disrespectful to peoples' dignity on a lot of fronts -- the kid in the photo, males in general because it probably puts them in the distasteful place of connecting childhood with sexual arrousal, and a large generation of women who were raised to be modest about nudity even in front of their own sex.

Necessity dictates the third world folks' approach; our own culture would be pretty nervous about seeing that Time Magazine cover replayed at, say, Disney World, or your kid's school play or graduation. A whole family in America bedding down in the same room year after year would raise hackles, and rightly -- what third world family with a lick of sense would prefer that?

Western civilization subscribes to modesty, because modesty protects privacy. Privacy respects dignity; where there is the prosperity to afford privacy, more respect is applied to dignity. But no matter where or why, the worst transgression that can be made against a fellow human, is to deprive him or her of dignity.

There are no weirdos here except for the exhibitionists.

[Larry Lucido]

The San people nurse until the kids are 5.

The San people are easily startled. But they will be back, and in greater numbers.

[count-your-change]

Infantile American males are shouting, “My turn, my turn!”.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Personally, I think that sending kids to prison-preparatory institutions called “public schools” is far more barbaric than anything that goes on in the third world, among many other things.

[trailhkr1]

We live in a bizarro world that considers the human body to be obscene.

True..but that being said the bodies we want to see naked we don't and the bodies we DON'T want to see naked we do.

A nudist colony comes to mind.

[Finny]

Point is, that's the way all humans lived up until the last hundred years or so.

Excuse me. That is utter and complete garbage. Read contemporary literature of, say 100 years ago, or 220 years ago.

I bet that any child in the pioneer west who ran to his mom at the age of three and yanked down her shirt to nurse while she was busy working, and any mother who tolerated it, would not have lasted long.

In any but the most hungry of places, it can only be a power dynamic on the part of either or both both kid and parent. The kid certainly doesn't need to nurse physiologically at the age of three.

[Finny]

We live in a bizarro world that considers the human body to be obscene.

Or maybe it's a world that considers the human body to be worthy of respect to itself, and respectful of those other bodies around it.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Well, I'm modest.

I don't want to see your wife's titties.

[Finny]

Hey, if you want to go live with the barbarians running around dangling, nobody is stopping you. If you want to live with the civilized folks, put a fig leaf on it.

AMEN!!!

[adc]

The first thing I thought of was “they must have photoshopped another kid . . . no mother would set her own child up for ridicule like that.”