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(@): Angelina on cover of W, BF'ing
Re: (@): Angelina on cover of W, BF'ing
I am the 99%.
I really do not like Angelina Jolie. ?I never have.
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That said, I think she looks absolutely beautiful in that picture.?
dude, her DSLs freak me the fug out.
That pic is weird. There is a little hand coming from the corner. If you saw a head there I wouldn't care but whats with the hand grasping the air???
DSLs?
I love the picture--I think she looks really happy and glow-y.
I. love. W.
That is all.
D!ck Sucking Lips
DSLs! I haven't heard that in about 20 years!!!!
I think she looks nice in this photo. I'm ambivalent about AJ. I think she's too thin and kinda crazy looking a good bit of the time, but she can take a good photo.
Dude, how am I supposed to guess that?
I think Angelina Jolie usually looks great. This shot is no exception.
you guys need grosser DH's! He's taught me a lot of "terminology".
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I only know what it means because I have been told I have them by more than one person.?
Random thoughts:
Beautiful photo
Wow, ladies, DSL is really demeaning. Insult her lips, fine, but not with that term.
The hand - Babies don't really have control or intent over their limbs for quite some time. I had to restrain LLL's arms in the early stages because she would interfere so much with feeding. Later on, she started actually "play with her food," so to speak. She also reaches for the bottle, too, when she's fed pumped milk. I actually thought the little hand was incredibly sweet and touching. It's what makes it an intimate moment, captures the realness.
Private vs. public - Well, yes they are published but they still show this wonderful, intimate side. It's actually making me misty for my little girl.
I understand and respect your opinion. I feel the same way personally for myself and always removed myself to private areas when nursing my children. However, I see nothing wrong with nursing being as public as anyone else eating a meal.
I applaud this ordinarily ridiculous magazine's willingness to put this photo on the cover.
What do you mean by 'ordinarily ridiculous'?
W almost always has artful photography on the cover and within the pages.
W has beautiful photos but I usually find myself rolling my eyes at the content because I find it to be as vapid as most fashion magazines. The society pages are always my favorite for true silliness.
Well...it is a fashion magazine.
The society pages are pretty informative as far as what's going on in high-end, giving ideas for what may become trends. Events like the Costume Institute at the Met set huge precedent.
Furthermore, W constantly pushes the envelope with its imagery and artistic style. Too much, sometimes, but I don't see how this is so out of the norm for it that it would be applauded. I think it's a great photo, but I also think it's par the course for W.
My negative feelings about AJ are probably clouding my better judgment, but I don't really like the pic. You can't really tell that she is breastfeeding. Isn't breastfeeding supposed to be the ultimate act of mother/child bonding and maternal sacrifice? Yet in this picture, if she is breastfeeding, it's really just about her and how dreamy her bedroom eyes look. What about the baby?It's like the breastfeeding angle is just an accessory to the shoot.
It's AW-y.
I think "maternal sacrifice" is a bit much.
I am the 99%.
I would agree if we all got our food from other women's tits.
Even so, it's still an act between mother and child, yet the picture is only about AJ breastfeeding (maybe?) some invisible child. Why do a breastfeeding shoot if you are only going to do it half-ass (or half-boob)?
And some people use forks, others drink directly out of the carton, others use chopsticks, and still others put the bowl to their mouth and slurp. What does the source matter?
Personally, I'd rather watch a baby nurse than watch someone shovel food into their lascivious vacuum cleaner of a mouth, chew with their mouth open, belch, wipe their mouth with the back of their hand, and go back for more.
It's breastfeeding. How could the source not matter? Babies don't drink from their mother's exposed thumbs. Breasts are something we cover up for public decency. I'm not saying breastfeeding is unnatural or disgusting. Just that a public breast makes me uncomfortable and I don't think it's something that needs to be displayed on magazine covers like a purse or a designer dress. To me, the act of breastfeeding is private and should be kept that way. Of course people who eat like farm animals are disgusting. I wouldn't want to sit across the table from that either. I don't see people putting that on the cover of fashion magazines.
...but that's the whole point.
Breasts have been sexualized, but they aren't genitals - they aren't sexual... breastfeeding is the reason why they exist.
Having BF'ed DD for 18 months I can say this: it's no more a "private" act than anything else involving a baby. Especially when she was younger - when she was hungry, that was it, it's time to feed her. Public. Private. Soft light and a rocker, or in the middle of a retail environment or restaurant. She didn't care... and neither did I.
Sure, a lot of bonding occurs at the breast... but it's also the case that (especially in the first few months) breastfeeding is simply a HUGE portion of your time (moreso for AJ, given that she's BF'ing twins)... it feels like ALL you do... so if you want to go out, you NIP...
Honestly, I wish there were more pictures of me nursing DD... I have precious few of them, and it's kinda sad, because it was such a humungous part of our lives for months.
funny, here's one of the few I do have... nursing DD at an Obama rally...
I am the 99%.