I could never get the "ZOMG breastfeeding!11111" controversy. It's natural, and it's not like it was posed for exploiting either the adult or baby models.
I can see some people being offended, but... it's a parenting magazine. And it's not like anything explicit was even shown.
It irritates me that people are this uncomfortable with breast-feeding. I see nothing wrong whatsoever with the cover of that magazine. Unless you're a sex addict who relates somehow exposure of the breast simply to feed an infant to something indecent, you have a lot of maturing to do. A lot.
Well, not every mother - historically, wealthy women have always hired wet-nurses for their children. Money meant not having to breast-feed.
But I completely agree with what you're saying. Breastfeeding is far and away the best way to feed babies, if it is at all possible, and acting as though women are somehow being offensive by doing so is ridiculous. But if someone can't breastfeed, then there's no point harassing them.
Alot of women pre-WWII, especially REALLY pre-WWII, had wetnurses rather than nurse themselves. Of course, this was especially common for the upper crusts, but also for any women who could not nurse for whatever reason. (Actually, my brother, born in '70, had a wetnurse, because there was no formula in Russia at that time and my mom couldn't nurse. I, born in '81, was formula-fed.) So the idea of not nursing is really not new, even though formula is.
But in general, I'll never understand the opposition of OTHER PEOPLE to YOUR choosing to breastfeed. I don't give people grief about what they eat; why should they care what my baby eats? Especially, since, like you said, nursing mothers are very discreet. We have women in our church that breastfeed during the services. If no one at an Orthodox church service finds it offensive, then no one else should, either.
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I can see some people being offended, but... it's a parenting magazine. And it's not like anything explicit was even shown.
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But I completely agree with what you're saying. Breastfeeding is far and away the best way to feed babies, if it is at all possible, and acting as though women are somehow being offensive by doing so is ridiculous. But if someone can't breastfeed, then there's no point harassing them.
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But in general, I'll never understand the opposition of OTHER PEOPLE to YOUR choosing to breastfeed. I don't give people grief about what they eat; why should they care what my baby eats? Especially, since, like you said, nursing mothers are very discreet. We have women in our church that breastfeed during the services. If no one at an Orthodox church service finds it offensive, then no one else should, either.
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