TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

[Simulist]

Oh, MinM... LMFAO.

[8bitagent]

http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/10/parenting/#1

Funny...Time chose not to ask her to breastfeed her adopted black child for the cover.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehow ... ian-child/

I can imagine the execs at Time "Well, we want to play provocative with themes of incest, child smut, women empowerment, breastfeeding debate...but ooh hey hey now...a
black toddler suckling on the teet of a white woman...that's gone to far!"

[Joe Hillshoist]

This picture disgusts me, not because it shows a woman breastfeeding, but because it is utterly exploitive.

Can you imagine how this went down? "Hey, we've got this really attractive Mom who still breastfeeds her huge-ass kid!"

Is this actually the model's own kid? I'm sort of hoping so.

If not its a bit sus.

I heard it was her kid so this becomes a bit of a beat up.

Who cares how long she breast feeds for? maybe after 6 or 7 years she should stop. Till then its none of my business.

[Nordic]

This picture disgusts me, not because it shows a woman breastfeeding, but because it is utterly exploitive.

Can you imagine how this went down? "Hey, we've got this really attractive Mom who still breastfeeds her huge-ass kid!"

Is this actually the model's own kid? I'm sort of hoping so.

If not its a bit sus.

I heard it was her kid so this becomes a bit of a beat up.

Who cares how long she breast feeds for? maybe after 6 or 7 years she should stop. Till then its none of my business.

Exactly. Which is why its got no business being on the cover of time, or having them pose in a professional photo studio to be exploited by these scumfuckers.

[OpLan]

"the kid's camo pants."
According to the Secret Sun,it's Horus,the God of war,stood on the throne which Isis his mother usually wears on her head.

[Joe Hillshoist]

This picture disgusts me, not because it shows a woman breastfeeding, but because it is utterly exploitive.

Can you imagine how this went down? "Hey, we've got this really attractive Mom who still breastfeeds her huge-ass kid!"

Is this actually the model's own kid? I'm sort of hoping so.

If not its a bit sus.

I heard it was her kid so this becomes a bit of a beat up.

Who cares how long she breast feeds for? maybe after 6 or 7 years she should stop. Till then its none of my business.

Exactly. Which is why its got no business being on the cover of time, or having them pose in a professional photo studio to be exploited by these scumfuckers.

Ha thats what i was thinking, then yesterday arvo i was at an anti CSG rally ... lots of people were going on about breast feeding. Most of it was positive. So I dunno if i feel as bad about the cover as I did. I dunno. I can see your point but at the same time where i live women breast feed in public all the time and no one bats an eyelid. Even tho this is a totally artificial situation - being a cover shoot for Time - the principle is the same isn't it? In some ways it seems like the artificial situation was only caused to force the issue. Woman breast feed, in public, and that, and the other details surrounding it should be left alone cos they are none of our business.

[JackRiddler]

I'm curious to know what Hugh makes of the kid's camo pants.

Do you really need Hugh to tell you what to make of the junior soldier at the breast of our national mother fulfilling her duty to state and country and god?

[crikkett]

I'm curious to know what Hugh makes of the kid's camo pants.

Do you really need Hugh to tell you what to make of the junior soldier at the breast of our national mother fulfilling her duty to state and country and god?

The God of Cricket, no less.

[Simulist]

I'm curious to know what Hugh makes of the kid's camo pants.

Do you really need Hugh to tell you what to make of the junior soldier at the breast of our national mother fulfilling her duty to state and country and god?

The God of Cricket, no less.

Ha! Yeah, I saw that, too.

[brekin]

Well I for one am incredibly offended.
I think the mother is supremely selfish and
very irresponsible to breast feed her
grown child on such a large chair.
If he is going to be more then 12 inches
off the ground then he should definitely
be wearing a helmet and whats more probably some
type of safety harness. I mean what if he wants to
play on his ipad while he breast feeds? It is an accident
waiting to happen and Time should know better.

[Joe Hillshoist]

I'm curious to know what Hugh makes of the kid's camo pants.

Do you really need Hugh to tell you what to make of the junior soldier at the breast of our national mother fulfilling her duty to state and country and god?

The God of Cricket, no less.

Whats Warney got to do with this?

[JackRiddler]

I'm curious to know what Hugh makes of the kid's camo pants.

Do you really need Hugh to tell you what to make of the junior soldier at the breast of our national mother fulfilling her duty to state and country and god?

The God of Cricket, no less.

Whats Warney got to do with this?

Whoever it is, it's the headline in the upper right.

Seriously, this cover isn't about attachment parenting or people's choices about breastfeeding. That may be the story on the inside. I have no particular opinion on whether attachment parenting or breastfeeding past infancy are good or bad or related to "infantilization," but this is about infantilization as a concept. Sons should be their mothers' until they become the military state's.

[Nordic]

My wife's response to the photo:

1. If he's an adopted son, how did she ever start making breast milk in the first place.

2. That's a big kid, and there's no way her breast milk can be sustaining him at this point. Her tits just aren't big enough. Obviously this is just a snack for him.

[barracuda]

1. If he's an adopted son, how did she ever start making breast milk in the first place.

How To Induce Lactation

To induce lactation a woman's breasts must be stimulated, by herself and/or her partner, for approximately 20 minutes, (10 minutes each breast), up to 8 times each day. By far the best method of breast stimulation is suckling by an adult partner; however, lactation may also be induced by a combination of hand massage and nipple stimulation. The essential hormones which cause breast milk to be produced are secreted in to a woman's blood stream for approximately 10 minutes and usually stay in her system for no more than 20 minutes. Suckling or stimulating beyond 20 minutes does little good, because her hormone level has returned to normal after that time.

2. That's a big kid, and there's no way her breast milk can be sustaining him at this point. Her tits just aren't big enough. Obviously this is just a snack for him.

Kids' snacking can be OK, even healthful

Times have changed since the days when moms routinely said to children eating between meals, "You'll ruin your appetite!" Nowadays the value of snacks as quick pick-me-ups is pretty widely recognized. Snacks are recognized as important part of a child's diet.

[JackRiddler]

He's not the adopted son, he's the biological son. Upthread. Read.