TIME Cover Says a Lot

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/time_magazines_motherhood_cover_is_a_disgrace.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2142487/Time-magazine-cover-shows-Jamie-Lynne-Grumet-26-breastfeeding-son-4.html

The sick cover story in TIME, which purports to present a  Mother who is unafraid to tell and show everyone and their brothers how much she cares for her son, is past bizarre. If this is not an instance of hitting rock-bottom for what is presented as a news periodical, I don't know what is.

Until I read the short post linked at top, I was reluctant to state what came into my head. In short I was actually fearful of how I may be perceived if I noted the manner in which the photo struck me. I give credit to the writer. As Mr. Riler noted, we see nothing that indicates an affectionate Mom nor one who desires to strengthen the bond between her and her victimized son. Absent was any appearance of loving effort to provide nourishment or a sense of security to the boy. The photo seemed purposely designed to look like a fashion catalogue in which the adult subject was depicted as Sexy and confident. Here she was, dressed in a style that would otherwise surely attract the attention of a man, and her child, who is patently far past an acceptable age for nursing, has his mouth latched onto her breast. Her son has all the body language of a child who is being forced to smile (Although circumstances preclude him from actually smiling in this case) for a family photo when he is not in the mood to have his picture taken.

This is no discreet nursing event. It is a "Well, what are you going to do about it?" pose. The child reportedly has an five year-old brother who, although he is treated in the same manner, mercifully was spared the humiliation.

We have reached a point in our culture in which people are in competition to outdo each other not only in being dysfunctional but to be the most brazen about their maladjusted practices. Cultural Relativism has reduced our society to an ongoing race to see who can be the most decayed while at the same time affecting to be the most proud of their self-induced impairment. When children are dragged along on this train ride, the picture goes from disgraceful to sickening.

Our mores have been attacked from so many angles that we are reluctant to publicly affirm them for ourselves let alone mention our concern that Society as a whole needs a Reformation and a Renaissance that seeks to bring us back to the best or our cultural and moral foundations. If one mentions the fact that, regardless of what State or "Church" may label the "union" of two people of the same gender as a "marriage, no such thing still exists, he or she will be immediately subject to unending attacks. Witness Carrie Prejean and what that young lady went through for simply answering a question in a very tactful, honest, and correct manner. It was a witch hunt that echoed that of 16th and 17th Century Germany.

Concerning the Mother, I of course don't know what the root of her selfishness is; it could be the desire to keep her boys as babies as long as possible, it could be a simple but dark hubris that compels her to be so very different, or it could be a combination of the two or include other factors. What we do know, and I doubt that she is unaware of this in her heart-of hearts, is this - she is harming the child.

In closing, I will note two recent instances of couples in Sweden and Canada in which their children were deliberately given gender-neutral names, dressed in sometimes in boy's and sometimes in girls clothing, and were prevented from being identified by their genders as the parents kept it secret from all but those who had to change their diapers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/22/swedish-parents-baby-gender

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/storm-gender-debate-rages_n_868131.html

I lay the blame on the Fathers in these cases. They are not being good husbands if they fail to exercise any influence in the case of a overly demanding Mom, they are not helping women in general if the sick idea was theirs, and, as they are tasked with ensuring that their children can grow up as well-adjusted as possible, they are knowingly remiss in the responsibilities.


People like the TIME mother and the above couples remind me of the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School. In an American History class, a female student is screamed at by the professor, played by the late Sam Kinneson, for providing the standard Leftist answer for the outcome of the Vietnam War. When Rodney Dangerfield's character, Thorton Melon, speaks up in defense of the student, the professor metes out the same treatment to him by posing a question about the Korean Conflict. Melon's response in a hawkish one and please the professor, who backs off.

Melon comments, "He's a good teacher, he really cares, about what I have no idea.".