# Well now Time Magazine.. that's umm... some cover! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536 "2012-05-10T18:29:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/41 "2012-05-10T21:10:40Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Isn’t everything? Especially if you’re desperate to sell some more magazines and can find a way to work in a contentious issue for women and some boobs for the men. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/42 "2012-05-10T21:21:07Z")
> [@srm13](#): > > That’s pretty ballsy for a magazine to put on the cover, much less the Time… I guess that the magazine business truly is dying. I hope the guy didn’t make that comment with the proud papa standing right there. But who shows his coworkers a picture of his wife breastfeeding??? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/43 "2012-05-10T21:32:23Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > I hope the guy didn’t make that comment with the proud papa standing right there. But who shows his coworkers a picture of his wife breastfeeding??? Oh, yes. The guy was right there. He even laughed. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer to start with. Plus, he was a bit overbearing most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/44 "2012-05-10T21:43:12Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > I have a girl that will be 1 next month and she barely shows interest in walking. We aren’t talking about weaning her (done with that), we’re talking to her doctor about _if we need to be worried about her not walking._ Are you going to solve that walking problem by running around the room with your shirt off, like getting the dog to run after a treat in your hand? That’s not the point. The point was that at 1, the child still seemed like a baby, so why would they stop treating it like a baby? > [@etv78](#): > > I think the picture would’ve been far less controversial if she were sitting, and her son was in her lap. Perhaps a bit, but look at the additional pictures. The next one she is holding in her lap, and he’s falling out of her lap. He doesn’t fit. Then there is another woman, and her two kids - one an infant and one a toddler. Yeah, it’s still controversial. But you are correct that the photographer deliberately set up the image to make it stand out as much as possible. He admits it. > [@](#): > > “When you think of breast-feeding, you think of mothers holding their children, which was impossible with some of these older kids,” Schoeller says. “I liked the idea of having the kids standing up to underline the point that this was an uncommon situation.” > [@Zeldar](#): > > Not really. It was actually a disgusting mammary gland. Looked a lot like those National Geographic “long breasted women.” What picture are you looking at, because all I can think is, “Can I be next?” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/45 "2012-05-10T21:49:05Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > What picture are you looking at, because all I can think is, “Can I be next?” All I said was that the first thing I thought of when I saw the TIME cover was that picture the coworker brought in and the snark the other guy laid on him. There are some lovely YouTube pictures of decent looking women with better looking apparatus nursing kids up into late preteen years. This picture is weak by comparison for my money. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/46 "2012-05-10T21:49:23Z")
Bah here in the South Pacific we get an artsy black and white photo of Sachin Tendulkar on the cover. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/47 "2012-05-10T21:52:03Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Bah here in the South Pacific we get an artsy black and white photo of Sachin Tendulkar on the cover. … breastfeeding? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/48 "2012-05-10T21:55:04Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > It’s not being used as a form of birth control; it’s being done for the sole satisfaction of the parent. And the child. My wife nursed both our kids until they were 2. Yes, they were capable of saying “Ma-ma! Nuwse! Nuwse!”. There’s nothing sick or disgusting about nursing a toddler. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/49 "2012-05-10T22:06:06Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > And the child. > > My wife nursed both our kids until they were 2. Yes, they were capable of saying “Ma-ma! Nuwse! Nuwse!”. > > There’s nothing sick or disgusting about nursing a toddler. This. I know several mothers who nursed into toddlerhood, and even did occasional “comfort nursing” of 3- and 4-year-olds. The mothers aren’t weirdos and the kids are fine. Now, making a big public display of your childrearing preferences and getting all dogmatic and preachy about it, that’s arguably kind of weird. And obviously, _Time_ is doing this basically to get readers riled up. But it’s a tempest in a teapot, when all’s said and done. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyTVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/50 "2012-05-10T23:08:24Z")
[Bitty!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuPBbFOiygo) ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/51 "2012-05-10T23:33:08Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Bah here in the South Pacific we get an artsy black and white photo of Sachin Tendulkar on the cover. > [@Ethilrist](#): > > … breastfeeding? :dubious: Well he’s not breastfeeding but he does seem to be undergoing some kind of ecstatic experience - [you be the judge](http://www.time.com/time/covers/pacific/0,16641,20120521,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/52 "2012-05-11T00:48:03Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I’m going with “sizably lowered now.” Hey, that happens to _all_ women eventually. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/53 "2012-05-11T01:14:33Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > On the main topic, my husband (who is a mail carrier) says that in terms of magazine covers he really would prefer not to have to look at all day long, this one is much less bad than [this one was.](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bk2611CN5bk/Ty7svy2BvuI/AAAAAAAACbs/JxHZ_s0sY-E/s1600/AkQaV0pCQAAL1bO.jpg) I’m just worried that they might feel a need to put a brown paper wrapper over the magazines, which will invariably tear off in the sorting machinery, and I’ll spend all night clearing jams. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/54 "2012-05-11T01:55:41Z")
When your kid starts noticeably sporting wood at meals, it might be time to wean. When your kid squeezes your boob into his morning coffee, weaning is something you might want to look in to. If you’re buying nursing bras with money you receive from Social Security, you might want to read up on effective methods of weaning. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/55 "2012-05-11T02:32:40Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > From what I read in the article, it’s more than just nursing. Basically, proponents of “attachment parenting” (advocated by Dr. Sears) don’t even believe in strollers for your kids because it puts the mother too far away. They should always be touching. Great Ghu, if you thought “helicopter parenting” was bad, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet… ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/56 "2012-05-11T02:45:36Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Great Ghu, if you thought “helicopter parenting” was bad, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet… More like “motorboat parenting” really. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/57 "2012-05-11T03:59:55Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I’ll call it: she seems to be photographed to look, well, hot and the kid looks big. The photo seems to intentionally add a provocative spin via the photograph that doesn’t have to be there for the story itself…add the title and you can get chatter going… > > My impressions. Magazine looking to build buzz and sales… This. Sorry, this looks like a circus midget having the time of his life. Time and People have now become the same magazine. It had to happen. The public isnt buying Time like they used to. And I am of the opinion that beyond 1 or so is a bit strange. Let’s say you think breast milk is the best thing for your child.. then why ever quit? What if the kid on the magazine is 7 or 12? where is the cutoff? I doubt there are any laws, and who are we to tell a woman what’s good for her child? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/58 "2012-05-11T05:06:01Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > More like “motorboat parenting” really. Well played ms. Well played indeed. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/59 "2012-05-11T05:56:43Z")
FWIW… I have two sisters, and the three of us were nursed by my mother until we were well into our third year of age. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536/60 "2012-05-11T07:58:49Z")
Current WHO recommendation is breastfeeding up to age 2, so clearly they feel 1 is too early a mandatory cutoff. But I’d have to say you have to be particularly committed a modern mom to manage that, so most post-1-yo breastfeeders would tend to be on the activist side of things, I’d warrant. Anyway, they’re just breasts, I don’t have an issue with it. It’s what they’re for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-now-time-magazine-thats-umm-some-cover/621536.md?page=4)