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Is Time's May 21, 2012 cover not in good taste?

I have no problem with breastfeeding in public as long as it's done discreetly. I don't have a problem with nudity either. However, having this on magazine stands next to the check out line at the grocers feels over the line. It appears to be solely about cheap titillation. It's a bizarre photo. It looks like a poster for a bad teen comedy. Look at the size of the kid. He is as big as a first grader.

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See also: Why does the idea of breastfeeding older children cause such extreme reactions?
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tynamite's avatar Controversy creates cash.
Look at Lady Gaga and Peta.
Of course it's wrong. That's why they're doing it.
Nobody is trying to fight for equal rights or equality here.

There are so many things wrong with that cover.)

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The first thing that is wrong about the front cover, is that it is sexualising children. A common theme that photographers and publications use when photographing women who are being objectified, is to say that to put a woman in a compromising or provocative position, that it is liberating women. The photo on the cover is not liberating women in any way or allowing them to reclaim their sexuality, because the woman is being reduced to a device used for a son to get milk from.

Usually the front covers of magazines use women who are seen in society to be attractive. This front cover doesn't include an attractive woman, for the expense of being able to shock people to make sales, without having to degrade sexy attractive women, whilst at the same time degrading and demoralising not attractive women.

The third thing that is wrong about the front cover, is that it is putting actions of an illegal or prohibited nature on a front cover, for people to be exposed to in a public place of a newsagents or supermarket, whether they want to be or not. In many Western countries, it isn looked down for a woman to be breastfeeding a child in public, and if they do so, they are supposed to be sat somewhere secluded or do so inside a store such as Mothercare. By putting such prohibited nature on a front cover of a magazine, its shock value doesn't give people a chance to question their beliefs or have taboos be seen as less controversial.

Instead it does the exact opposite, and is demoralising to the woman on the front cover, because she is being used as a scare tactic instead of an advocacy for Feminism and equality. She is just another woman to ridicule in a circus, who nobody would look twice at.
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