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Time magazine cover -- forget the breast, what about the boy?
FoxNews.com ^ | 5-11-2012 | Dr. Keith Ablow

Posted on 05/11/2012 11:54:39 AM PDT by servo1969

Jamie Lynn Grumet, the 26-year-old mother featured on the cover of Time magazine breastfeeding her 3-year-old son, has done more this week than become the poster woman for “attachment parenting,” the sometimes laudable movement that advises parents to be physically and emotionally available and responsive to their children. She has shown the limits of such a concept, and the ways in which it can be twisted into a bizarre, contemptible caricature of itself.

Grumet is a model, and models have to have at least healthy dose of narcissism (television journalists like me, too, by the way). But I fear Grumet has more than what’s healthy.

Because she thought nothing of becoming far more famous than she ever was or ever would have been by getting naked on the cover of Time using her son as a prop—letting him, in fact, look right into the camera and be completely recognizable while sucking her nipple. He may never be better-known for anything than for being a breastfeeding 3-year-old on the cover of a national magazine.

Ever.

When he enters school later in his young life he may be ridiculed for it. And these realities hint at a woman who could (and I have not evaluated her) have very poor boundaries and be willing or likely not only to nurture a child, but to absorb him, deny him his personhood and render him no more than her appendage.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: attachment; breastfeeding; grumet; incest; incestporn; parenting; porn; timemagazine
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To: servo1969

Yeah, I wouldn’t mind having some of that for lunch, but I don’t really care how long she breast feeds junior. Just don’t do it on a magazine cover.

I’ll bet her husband is really proud of her and his kid.


22 posted on 05/11/2012 12:12:31 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: Jack Burton007

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.


23 posted on 05/11/2012 12:12:31 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: laweeks

Yeh but I bet he’ll have a Lambourghini before any of us. Even a 3 year old can be a prostitute....thanks to his mom.


24 posted on 05/11/2012 12:13:25 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Jack Burton007

Look, some things are difficult and highly resistant to change ~ like providing homosexual couples with a right to a vaginal delivery ~ you grab one of those ol’boys and lay out the problem to him he’ll blanch white as a sheet!


25 posted on 05/11/2012 12:14:07 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

First off, you sicko, I never said that was their “only purpose.” But ASSume away, like the Trayvon crowd.

Just FYI, dummmy, I had 4 children, all of them nursed.


26 posted on 05/11/2012 12:15:18 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: Clara Lou

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


27 posted on 05/11/2012 12:15:18 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: servo1969
Seems like some kind of protracted infancy to me.

Article states he's 3 years old.

Looks to me like 3 going on 5 or 6.

28 posted on 05/11/2012 12:16:52 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More (OBAMA!!'s name is all caps as sarcasm to indicate a lack of respect, as he does not deserve it)
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To: servo1969

Looks like a case of incest with a minor to me.


29 posted on 05/11/2012 12:17:17 PM PDT by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war....)
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To: svcw

1) See post #26.
2) Are you saying that that “use” is not one intended by God?


30 posted on 05/11/2012 12:18:05 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: servo1969

Does the boy have a role model to aspire to?


31 posted on 05/11/2012 12:18:39 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: Clara Lou
hmm ~ sex objects ~ lots of things are sex objects if you look at them that way. There was once a "Hello Kitty' vibrator.

Lasted about 2 minutes into the first phone call to the company headquarters.

Breasts provide lactic fluids to young'ns. Simultaneously they are made up of some degree of erectile tissue ~ and are tied into the nervous system with a special link that does all sorts of things.

However, the purpose is the purpose. The rest of that stuff keeps you in her tree and not somebody else's tree!

Remember, in nature all genes have multiple purposes. Else you'd be a sea slug.

32 posted on 05/11/2012 12:19:40 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: servo1969
The term attention whore comes to mind.
33 posted on 05/11/2012 12:21:04 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I have no problem what so ever with breastfeeding... I have no problem even with breastfeeding in public (although I would encourage women to use a cloth of small towel to cover themselves while they feed their child.

BUT

I have a HUGE problem with what THIS WOMAN did! This is out and out child abuse! and someone (either this woman or the editors of TIME) needs to be put in jail for this! I find it OUTRAGOUS, and is sexual exploitation of a child, distribution of child pornography and is no different than if TIME had a picture of that poor kid sucking on his dad’s wee wee.

CPS should get involved on this.


34 posted on 05/11/2012 12:23:08 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (The Tea Party isn't dead... we're just waiting)
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To: servo1969

Waiting for some lefty wing nut to criticize the militaristic woodland camouflage pants on the kid.


35 posted on 05/11/2012 12:23:08 PM PDT by Jumpmaster (Defund the Left!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

NAILED IT !

36 posted on 05/11/2012 12:26:13 PM PDT by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war....)
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To: cuban leaf

When I saw the cover, I thought this kid had better grow up to be a cage fighter or live out the song, “Boy named Sue”.

What the hell were these people thinking?


37 posted on 05/11/2012 12:29:23 PM PDT by Texas resident (November 6 - Vote Against obama)
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To: Texas resident

I think the kid’s pretty lucky actually..... /snark


38 posted on 05/11/2012 12:30:26 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

If you think this was weird you should see what goes for normal in scandinavia.


39 posted on 05/11/2012 12:31:26 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bicyclerepair
I think the kid’s pretty lucky actually..... /snark

I would make the supreme sacrifice and volunteer to take his place.

40 posted on 05/11/2012 12:32:59 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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