I'll just post the same comment I made on my local doula list:

> "Gross," said a third.

That is the saddest thing I've read all day.

> One mother who didn't like the cover explains she was concerned about
> her 13-year-old son seeing it. "I shredded it," said Gayle Ash, of
> Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. "A breast is a breast — it's
> a sexual thing. He didn't need to see that."

That's where she's so so so wrong. He DOES need to see it... and his
future babies NEED him to see NOW that breasts are for feeding babies!

> It's the same reason that Ash, 41, who nursed all three of her children,

Not for long, I bet... it's a pain to have to hide to feed your baby so 
women in the US with this sort of attitude usually don't continue 
breastfeeding for very long, IME.

> "I don't want my son or husband to accidentally see a breast they didn't
> want to see."

Heh... I think she means that SHE didn't want them to see. Have you ever
known a man who didn't "want to see" breasts? ;)

> And yet Wheatley, 40, who's still nursing her 3-year-old daughter,
> rarely breast-feeds in public, partly because it's more comfortable in
> the car, and partly because her husband is uncomfortable with other men
> seeing her breast.

And why is that? Because his mother thought he didn't "need" to see
breastfeeding when he was 13. Bleah.

> "Men are very visual," says Wheatley, 40, of Amarillo, Texas. "When they
> see a woman's breast, they see a breast — regardless of what it's
> being used for."

... so mother and babies should hide away like they're doing something
shameful because men have not been educated about the dual purpose of the
female breast? That's so wrong-headed. How will they ever learn?

> "It's not like women are whipping them out with tassels on them!" she
> adds.

LOL!

> "Gross, I am sick of seeing a baby attached to a boob," wrote Lauren, a
> mother of a 4- month-old.

Her poor baby.

Most of that article just made me heartsick. :/

Cee

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