I'm serious, people are very upset with the cover of this issue of BabyTalk. Are you upset over it bc I'm not.

Question

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14065706/?GT1=8307

Here is the link. I'm not upset by it I just can't understand why some people are. It's ok to see porn mags in a store but not a Mother nursing her baby? Some people have some very serious issues out there. This one takes the cake.

Answer 1

Wow, I can't believe that people are actually getting upset over this. It's a beautiful, natural thing and I see absolutely nothing wrong with it, I bet you and I were breast feed (I know I was). As a matter of fact, I think we should see more women breast feeding in public and TV. Why is this such a taboo? The statistics are a little sad though, "a national survey by the American Dietetic Association found that 57 percent of those polled are opposed to women breastfeeding in public and 72 percent think it is inappropriate to show a woman breastfeeding on television programs." It's just sad to see how close minded people really are. Yet, everywhere you turn you see a woman with her breast about to pop out of her shirt and there's nothing wrong with that. The same people who are protesting this picture are probably the same people who have a pregnant 13 year old at home.

Answer 2

I think it's the prudish, Puritanical side of America that's upset by something like this. I'm certainly not...there's nothing on that cover that even vaguely smacks of obscenity. After all, when did it become indecent to feed your baby? In this oversexed culture we live in, breasts are looked at primarily as sexual playthings. Well, biology says their primary purpose is for providing nutrition to small babies, and that's how we need to look at it. If people would just take their minds out of the gutter for 5 seconds, they'd see the difference! I also happen to agree with the person who said she refused the idea of hiding in a bathroom to feed her baby because some people might be offended. Maybe attitudes that explain why some are upset with this picture also help explain why breastfeeding is so rare (and often so short when it does happen) in this country. The ones who really lose are the babies...

Answer 3

whats wrong with it? well the pic really isnt in real bad taste. but it is prob just a beginning, the next one may be a full view. Give everyone an inch and theyll take a mile.... remember everything that you think has gone to far nowadays, such as sex on tv, started with just a small kiss, or the naked bodies you see everywhere, started with the showing of an ankle, then a leg, then a thigh,and on and on, until eventually everyone is extremely scantily clad. yes breastfeeding is normal, but there is always a code of decency, that should accompany anything!

yes all these other things are terribly worse, but mtv and magazines all got to where they are by small things at first and people saying whats the big deal? then their children grew up, and say whats a little more, nothing wrong with that,,, it never stops, with each generation it grows and grows, because that generation has sen it all it life and have grown accustomed to it, so they grow up and push the boundaries just a little further

Answer 4

I just said that in an answer a few minutes ago. People just get over it. It is baby talk magazine. A baby breastfeeding is natural. If you dont like it then don't look at it. The magazine is for pregnant women and mothers. What should they be showing. They talk about sex after birth and while pregnant is that a bad thing to. I think some people just have to much time on there hands to think about stupid things.

Answer 5

What's on the cover that has everyone fussing? I am not sure if my daughter gets this one or not.

I just checked out the link, and I HAVE seen the cover, maybe at a doctor's office or something? Anyway, oh brother! I wonder if the same people who have a problem with this cover have a problem with all the cleavage that is shown on people magazine, or if it would be a "beautiful act of feeding" if it were Angelina, J Lo, or any of the hundred women on most covers of magazines, who are ... not covered.

Answer 6

I cant believe people are upset over it. Americans are so obsessed with sex that they cant even appreciate motherhood. That picture is mostly baby and barely breast. It could even be a baby biting an elbow. i cant believe some mother shredded it because she didnt want her 13 yr old son seeing it. Maybe if he saw it he would grow up knowing that the primary function of breasts is breastfeeding and come to respect it. Now he is sure to view it only as a sexual thing.
Its even worse that women who have nursed their kids have a problem with it.

Now if a magazine had Demi Moore naked and pregnant with her boobs hanging out, no one will complain.

Answer 7

That is ludicrous... it's a breast. The people who are upset are the same ones who got upset about the Superbowl "wardrobe malfunction" that was so miniscule in duration, we had to freeze frame it one frame at a time to even see it.

And the mom who doesn't want her 13 yo to see it because they are "sexual" things? How repressed is this country!?!

Gee willikers. You can't even see the nipple. If I saw that on the shelf at the store, I doubt I'd even have figured out it was a breast.

No wonder we've got such high rape and sexual abuse statistics... men are so repressed! Other countries that have more open attitudes toward the human body and nudity have MUCH lower sex crime statistics because they can always see it... they don't need to "take" it.

Ugh.

Answer 8

There are a lot of people out there who still have not come to grips with the whole *the breast is for feeding a child, not a sex toy* thing.

They are small minded and should be ignored at all costs.

No this picture does not upset me at all and I say kudos to any mother who chooses to nurse her child whenever and where-ever baby needs to. No, I do not advocate taking your shirt off, there are plenty of clothes out there to get around this.

My one sis in law nursed all 6 of her children and she did so discreetly everywhere she went, including church and shops.

Some people just need to get over it.

Answer 9

If u look at star's dresses these days, they show more cleavage than that picture. I think it was a very beautiful picture. The baby is looking up at his mother, not at her breast, which means she is probably smiling or talking to him. I am nursing my son, and we have done it just about everywhere, and while it might be easy to cover up a newborn baby, you try to keep a seven month old covered who is always turning around every time someone talks. Maybe if people didnt make such a big deal out of it, men would learn to look up at our faces (like the baby) instead of at our breasts.

Answer 10

I suppose the argument could be made (not that I'm making it) that some women who subscribe to the magazine may already have a young child or two at home, and don't want their kids to see such a picture.

But having said that -- I don't think there's anything wrong with this photo, especially given the magazine's target audience, who I guess would be pregnant women and their husbands.