Is your head still spinning from that Time magazine breastfeeding cover? And that weird headline. (WTF!) But I'm also cracking up over the Twitter responses from other moms that I've seen so far.
One of my favorite mom tweets has to be this one from @KCzubek: "The text that SHOULD go with the controversial Time Magazine cover." And then she gives us her version of the Time mag cover, which reads: "Are you desperate to sell magazines?" Zing! Exactly, Kimberly.
The Stir's own Lindsay Ferrier says, "Is anyone else feeling sorry for the kid on the @Time magazine cover? His middle/high school years are now officially DOOMED." And Becky Hood replied, "So is his dating life. Therapists, though, are already counting their money. #mommyissues."
Alyssa Milano, a new mom herself, doesn't like how divisive the cover is. "Time, no! You missed the mark! You're supposed to be making it easier for breastfeeding moms. Your cover is exploitative & extreme."
Or as Libby Hoppe put it, "Oh, man this Time cover story is about to spark some major convos in the mommy circles. I'll grab the popcorn."
The Time cover is so bobbieliscious it got Alice Bradley lactating for whatever: "Nursing a three-year-old is extreme? I'll nurse anything. I just nursed a barn owl."
Anymommy replied, "You're not mom enough. I'll nurse a pterodactyl. I'll genetically engineer one from fossils AND THEN NURSE IT."
Alice: "I'M GOING TO NURSE MY TOASTER OVEN HERE I GO"
Kristen Chase is just outraged by the child's poor etiquette. "What kind of manners does that kid on the Time cover have? Who stands and eats?" "In our house, we sit and eat from our nipples."
And finally, this one about had me rolling on the floor. Another brilliant Stir contributor Linda Sharps says, "Yo Time I'm really happy for you but Game of Thrones had one of the best breastfeeding scenes of all time!" And then she posted this video below. BAM! I think we'll have to give her the last word.
Who do you think had the funniest Twitter response to the Time cover?
Image via Kimberly Czubek/Twitter
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I'm fine with the cover. It's the words that go along with it that bother me. The implication that I am not a good mother because I didn't breastfeed (my daughter could not hold down my breastmilk so it was formula or starve). I am a good mom.
It's along the lines of the new attack on women "Real women have curves." Well the last time I checked this 100lb size 2 A cup pushed 2 kids out of her vagina. Pretty sure that makes me more of a woman than the size of my boobs or the size of my waste.
My breastfeeding choices don't make me a good or a bad mom, my body size (of which I have no control over) does not make me more or less a woman.
That's where my problem lies with the cover.
Most people don't like to look back at regular pictures of themselves at 4, this kid has a magazine cover of him getting breastfed. I agree with the person that this kid's whole social life is shot.
And this is not about "extended breastfeeding". Still I do not agree with the whole cover at all !
Why can't she just pump the milk and he drink it that way? I think the biggest deal is that he's still walking up to her boobs. If you wanna brestfeed until your kid is a teenager, then fine...do your thing. But pump the damn milk!
I don't carehow long women breastfeed,but I don't tbink it should be on a cover of a major news magazine-it's private!!