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

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

[Kaslin]

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RUSH: The TIME Magazine cover with the 26-year-old mother and the three-year-old baby -- well, three-year-old boy. She was breast-feeding in this TIME Magazine cover. And, by the way, we here at the EIB Network were the first with the parody covers of TIME Magazine. We had the boy breast-feeding off the breast of the Statue of Liberty. And now there have been others. Obama breast-feeding from George Clooney is a very popular one out there. Obama as the young boy. But here, you have to hear this sound bite. This Melinda Henneberger. Now, Melinda Henneberger I think used to be at Newsweek, maybe it was TIME, one of the two. Does it really matter?

She was on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday. She's a columnist for the Washington Post now. I think she's gone back and forth at the Huffing and Puffington Post. During the roundtable of Face the Nation yesterday, Bob Schieffer asked Melinda Henneberger, who, Melinda Henneberger is a classic inside the Beltway feminist, classic professional feminist. You know what that means. So Schieffer said, "I just want to ask you all about something because it's what everybody's talking about. The cover of TIME Magazine, the young mother breast-feeding her three-year-old boy. Melinda, what do you think of that?"

HENNEBERGER: It's not a Mother's Day gift to most of us to have another message that says, "You're not mom enough if you don't look like this terrific-looking woman." And the story's not even about breast-feeding. It's about a 72-year-old doctor, and I'm sure that they were right, that this woman looks far better than he, but the story is about this doctor who has many more views on how to be the right kind of mom versus the wrong kind of mom, and I think the timing of it was odd.

RUSH: It's not working with these feminist women. See, TIME Magazine blew it. You know why it's not working with the feminist women? Because the woman on the cover of TIME Magazine was too pretty. I call your attention once again to Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24. Dare I speak it again? Brian's nodding his head yes. Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream. Here is Melinda Henneberger, who's somewhat trying to be funny here, but in all comedy, there is a grain of truth, and she's quite upset. And, believe me, she speaks for the Maureen Dowds of the world and the Gloria Borgers, the whole crowd.

The TIME Magazine cover, you're not mom enough if you don't look like this terrific-looking woman. She's upset that the woman on the cover of TIME was too pretty, was too attractive. Not the concept, but that she was too pretty. Embarrassed all these other women by having a woman on the cover that's too pretty. Should have had somebody not as pretty on the cover and then it would have been more effective. I'm dead serious. Now, who is it among us that makes these kinds of judgments? We get criticized for being sexists and bigots, misogynists or whatever, but you listen to these women talk about each other and themselves, and it's hilarious. Then she goes on to attack the whole story. And this was a story designed to appeal to women on behalf of Obama and the War on Women, and the thing apparently has totally backfired.

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[rcrngroup]

Posts #2 & #3. CLASSC! Especially #2. I would love 300 million post cards of this sent out, either the added caption...."Is THIS who you want as YOUR president?"

I think 0dumb0sh_t really stepped into it with gay outing announcement. I know that Romney will not have the guts to mock 0dumb0 on this, so I hope the conservative super pacs just pound 0dumb0 daily on his gay-ness & agenda.

[miss marmelstein]

I agree that public breastfeeding was probably very discreet in the past - especially in Anglo-Saxon cultures. In fact, during my years of interest in fashion, I remember seeing many beautiful bibs for concealing women’s breasts.

As far as the American West (and agricultural life in general) is concerned, one of the reasons they had big families was to aid in the taking care of those crucial chores. It probably freed up some of mom’s time to feed her kiddies.

If I can recommend another book to you about this: try a beautiful book called “Larkrise to Candleford.” It’s about rural life in England during the 1880s. One of the most wonderful books I have ever read.

But I guess we can agree that the Time cover was disgusting!

[miss marmelstein]

Ah, the terrible flu epidemic! My very favorite novel - “Look Homeward Angel” concludes with that horrible event. While I don’t remember any discussion of breastfeeding in that book, I do remember the mother had about 10 kids and was exhausted most of the time!

[SoKatt]

I own “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn”. It’s one of my all-time favorite books- and it was the first thing that I thought of when I saw the Time cover: a child nursing standing up, “with his legs crossed jauntily, looking like he was smoking a pale cigar”. Lol! Good call, mm!

[miss marmelstein]

When I first read the book (I was about 13), I was sooooo grossed out at that child! Come to think of it, I still dislike him. He was called Baby Gussie or Tilly or something.

[Tax-chick]

I read “Lark Rise to Candleford” on your recommendation. It was worth the wait on the library reserve list.

I’ve nursed some of my children until they were two years old, but only a few people outside the family knew, because by that age, they want to nurse when they get up in the morning, at naptime, and before bed. Women who make an exhibition of breastfeeding are exhibitionists anyway, in my opinion.

[wardaddy]

Mom is a transracial family crusader

I love breastfeeding......adored wifeys plumpkins

But that photo is freaky.....and she is no conservative icon

[miss marmelstein]

Did you really like it? I remember recommending it to you! It’s very beautiful as well as being entertaining. A classic.

I have a good friend who has two kiddies. When she visits our small family, she quietly retires to one of our rooms to feed her new baby. No fuss, no muss. She has real class.

[SoKatt]

He WAS a nasty little bugger, wasn’t he? :-) His name was Gussie ( and the trick to wean him was referred to in the neighborhood as “giving the baby the Gussie” ), and his little sister was Tillie. I need to re-read that book, for the hundredth time. Have a good evening, mm!

[Tax-chick]

Yes, it was a wonderful book, with marvelous detail about rural and small-town life. Many episodes reminded me of my father’s old hometown in Missouri; my grandmother would have felt right at home in Lark Rise. I felt so bad about the narrator’s brother, though.

I have a “nursing cover,” which is a sort of apron with a strap around the neck, like Juan Diego’s tilma. I got it free when I ordered a pillow and a footstool, before Kathleen was born, but it has turned out to be very useful. With that and my Motherwear blouses, nobody sees anything unless they try awfully hard.

One when Kathleen was a few weeks old, I was nursing her in my obstetrician’s waiting room - her face and my bosom completely covered - and another patient asked if she was my grandchild!

[Right Wing Assault]

The feminists wanted this woman to model as the mom but she was too busy.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Dude...

In context of my post...

are you saying she is your wife and your son?

I wait to be enlightened/corrected.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Some comedian said the following:” <<

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Tell him not to quit his day job.
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[the invisib1e hand]

melinda looks like she might be a hottie.

[uncommonsense]

When the baby has teeth, he's a boy. Don't let boys “nurse”.

It's not needed for nutrition, it becomes a habit (perverted IMHO), and the boys struggle to become independent “men”. Teeth - it's nature's (God's) way of telling when it's time to change direction and nutrition.

[Right Wing Assault]

I just realized I left our the pic on my post #31. This is the woman the fems wanted for the Time cover.

[wardaddy]

I was answering your question has anyone done background on this young mom?

I have.

She is a lib....major progressive and mentally unbalanced in my opinion.

Crows about her transracial family...she adopts African kids....fair enough...save the world and all but don’t flag it for the MLK humanitarian of the year award

She plans on breastfeeding till age six which is kooky as hell..and maybe a bit perv

and she has the kids sleep in her bed every night even longer...like way longer

sick in my opinion

a great way to breed more queers

my other point was I like breastfeeding and plump even if leaky breasts...hell what man doesn’t and I think it’s beautiful for babies...the whole pregnancy-birthpbaby thing is for me a Raison D’etre

but this chick is a nutbag and to watch conservative yet uninformed women latch onto her is scary

attachment parenting

feminism invades traditional mommying is how I see it

women further emasculating boys

you should read up on this trend

in 20 years these men will not know how to drive a car and won’t be able to find jeans tight enough

sorta like young men today but worse

i swear if i see another able bodied 30 year old man being driven around by his wife...I may have road rage

how did this happen...are all the cool young men in Afghanistan?

[mrsmel]

Farragut was 12 years old when, during the War of 1812, he was given the assignment to bring a ship captured by the USS Essex, safely to port. He was wounded and captured while serving on the Essex during the engagement at Valparaiso Bay, Chile against the British on March 28, 1814.

Somehow I doubt this man was still breastfeeding at the age of 3 or 4. No wonder "30 is the new 20" , "Peter Pan syndrome" amd all that, these days. There didn't used to be such a thing as a separate age group called "teenagers". First you were a child, then you put away childish things and became a man. These days grown men amd women have "toys".

[dixiechick2000]

I love breast feeding moms, too...and was one myself...but this lady, and movement, is too creepy even for me.