What the heck does "are you mom enough", even mean??

[mami_chilena]

Alright ... soak it in...yes, it's a mother nursing her older child...yeah yeah...moving on!

People kept asking me when I was going to make an opinion on this. At first, I lightly glanced at it, and thought: "Ugh, not again." - but then I thought after examining the image, the title and the subtitle + the magazine's name, why it's causing so much controversial.

So instead of posting a very long paragraph about it, I am going to pin point my views, in shorter versions. (Mainly because I have about 10-15mins before baby Dash wakes up)

1. Let's talk about the subjects; mother and older child. That cannot be the mother. And that cannot be her child. For one, the child looks incredibly uncomfortable, and is posing very unnaturally. Two, no mother looks that damn good breastfeeding their older kid. I'm sorry, but if you do look like this, nursing your older kid, prove it - then I'll shut up. However, I have a slight feeling that this photo was 'Photoshopped'. Especially this image:
    one that didn't make the cover. It just doesn't seem ... right, at least not in my eyes. Something was changed, something was played with, removed, cropped or scaled or something!!! 
2. The actual act of breastfeeding. How someone can say 'it's gross' it beyond me. It's HUMAN milk, from a HUMAN mother, feeding her HUMAN child. That is all. That is all to it. That is all you need to know. And yet, it is okay to drink bodily fluid from another species? Say, a cow? Do you even know what is in cow's milk? Go research it, and then come back to me.
3. The main title: "Are you Mom enough?" ... um, WHAT? So because I don't breastfeed my older child, does that mean I am not "mom enough" - what exactly does being "mom enough" even MEAN? What is the definition of "mom enough". That makes no sense. And that title alone has created so much anger in mothers who, by no choice of their own, weren't able to breastfeed. (increasing their milk supply, nursing as much as they could, for as long as they could) - and that doesn't make them "mom enough"? Well, i guess I am not "mom enough" if my child decided to wean on her own. I guess I am not "mom enough" when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and was not able to produce milk. (Not in my case, but someone else's). Excuse me, pardon me, for not being "mom enough". I guess caring, nurturing, loving unconditionally my children does not make me "mom enough".
4. The subtitle: "Why attachment parenting drives some mothers to extreme ..." - What is attachment parenting? Definition:  a phrase coined by pediatrician William Sears,[1] is a parenting philosophy based on the principles of the attachment theory in developmental psychology. According to attachment theory, the child forms a strong emotional bond with caregivers during childhood with lifelong consequences. Sensitive and emotionally available parenting helps the child to form a secure attachment style which fosters a child's socio-emotional development and well being. In extreme and rare conditions the child may not form an attachment at all and may suffer from reactive attachment disorder as defined in DSM-IV and ICD-10. Principles of attachment parenting aim to increase development of child's secure attachment and decrease insecure attachment.          Did you get all that? Shorter definition: A PARENT! That is what you are SUPPOSE to do when you become a parent. It doesn't even need the "attachment" title in front of it. It's parenting. How can there be 'other' styles or methods of parenting? This should be the only 'kind'. 
5. Sensationalism. Enough said.