Many Outraged by Breast-Feeding Magazine Cover

AOL News ^ | 07/27/06 18:23 EDT | By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP

[jdm]

"Also, she isn't worried about here son and husband seeing a "breast they didn't want to see", she is worried about them seeing a breast SHE doesn't want them to see."

It's all about control, isn't it?

[Mr. Jeeves]

"I shredded it," said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. "A breast is a breast - it's a sexual thing. He didn't need to see that."

What an incredibly immature view of the world. How did this woman ever manage to get pregnant in the first place - by lying back and thinking of the Alamo? ;)

Besides that picture doesn't even look like a breast - it could just as easily be a (small) part of Ted Kennedy's belly.

[calex59]

It's all about control, isn't it?

Very true.

[lawnguy]

even as breast-feeding itself gains more support from the government and medical community.

You have to be lib to the bone to even write this sentence. Who cares what the "government" thinks about breast feeding?

[Fairview]

That's a pretty innocent picture, and an adorable baby. How well I remember that expression on a baby's face at just the same point in the proceedings.

People really are odd and puritanical if they can get upset over this. There is absolutely no need for anyone, male or female, to see anything at all when one is breastfeeding in public. It can be done with such perfect discretion that no flesh shows at all. People who mind a fully-clad woman with a ten-pound bulge in her arms have got a problem.

[kcmt01]

Only a really creepy pervert would think that a nursing baby is "sexual".

[kingu]

I was seated in the waiting area of a busy restaurant last night, when a young mom sat down threw a blanket up over her shoulder and prepared to nurse her baby girl. I just smiled and looked away.

Beats what happened when I was visiting the People's Republic of Santa Monica. Waiting for a table at a restaurant, a woman walks in off the street, demands that a couple gets off the bench so she can sit down, the shocked couple stood up, she plops down, pops open her shirt, lifts her bra, and starts breast feeding her three year old son. No towel or blanket, very rude woman, oh, and when she was asked if she wanted a table by the staff, she refused - 'Just my son's eating today, and he's already being served.'

[HairOfTheDog]

What an incredibly immature view of the world. How did this woman ever manage to get pregnant in the first place - by lying back and thinking of the Alamo? ;)

This was the one that cracked me up: "'Gross, I am sick of seeing a baby attached to a boob,' wrote Lauren, a mother of a 4-month-old."

Hence the title of the article on the magazine cover...

[jdm]

Besides it's not flashing, it's a "wardrobe malfunction."

That's too funny!

I know a woman who breastfeeds. I'll tell her that next time someone complains about her breastfeeding in public she should tell them it's a wardrobe malfunction.

[HairOfTheDog]

Who cares what the "government" thinks about breast feeding?

The people who want the cops to come save them from the nursing woman at the mall?

[pinz-n-needlez]

I have to feel sorry for her. A cover on a magazine meant for parents of babies who were designed to suckle from mommy...

And she sees in her mind's eye a dirty old man who is acting in a perverted manner.

Some people just cannot be helped. :-(

I feel sorry for her current or future grandchildren. Her children have already been impacted by her strange world view.

Pinz

[bannie]

So...

functioning, natural breasts are obscene

and

Non-lactating or silicone-filled breasts are "natural"?

???

OY...oy...OY!!!

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm gonna guess she's a rather rude person even when she's not breastfeeding :~)

[TankerKC]

"I shredded it," said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. "A breast is a breast - it's a sexual thing. He didn't need to see that."

Grow up, ayle Ash, of Belton, Texas.

[spunkets]

You're right, there's nothing wrong with the cover pic. Looks fine. Looks like they've got some interesting stories in there too... "quickie routines that work!"

:o)

[pinz-n-needlez]

People behave poorly all the time. In a civilized society, sometimes we just look away and occupy ourselves until it passes.

In a socialist society, whiners call out for new laws. lol

Nursing her child was probably one of the better things that such a loutish woman has done. Most nursing 3 year olds that I've known were/are more polite and circumspect than that woman was. ;-)

Pinz

[tioga]

A three year old boy is too old to be nursing. What a crass woman.

[jdm]

"People who mind a fully-clad woman with a ten-pound bulge in her arms have got a problem."

Hey, leave Star Jones out of this!

Oh wait, that's more than a ten-pound bulge.

[Tax-chick]

It's a crazy world, friends... a crazy world.

I agree. I don't think it's a very attractive picture of the baby or the boob "-), but it's not showing anything that's not on dozens of other general-circulation magazine covers.

[kingu]

People behave poorly all the time. In a civilized society, sometimes we just look away and occupy ourselves until it passes. In a socialist society, whiners call out for new laws. lol

Everything she did was 'legal' under the law, and objections would be against the law. Typical in your face form of liberalism - the taking of a tender moment between mother and child and turning it into a public display of 'rights.'