Apparently Breasts Are Provacative
This week's Time Magazine cover of a woman breast-feeding her 3-year-old son sure has a lot of people talking. My own feelings about the Time cover are conflicted. On one hand, I think Time is making an important point, and the controversy surrounding it is ridiculous. I vigorously defend the following ideas: Breast-feeding is normal and healthy. Breast-feeding is normal and healthy for toddlers, including 3-year-olds like this one. Breast-feeding is normal and healthy for boys, not just girls! It is okay and normal to be a sexy woman and also breast-feed your child. Women can be both mothers and sexual beings at the same time. There is nothing wrong with breast-feeding standing up, either! This cover does not show anything inherently sexual or abnormal or unhealthy. The fact that so many people have looked at this cover and had an immediate negative reaction is about the ways we have hypersexualized women in this society, and see breasts, in particular, as only