Salma Hayek, while talking about motherhood, said that she was breastfeeding her 13 month old baby and loving it. Celebrity blogs went mad with madness. Really, you have to see some of the stuff they said to believe it.. and Lauredhel, to her enormous credit, read through much of it and put together her thoughts for my very favourite post on the Internet in quite some time. Seriously thorough, and seriously intelligent.
Can’t. Recommend. This. Post. (and the comments which follow). Enough.
P.S. Here is another example of female celebrities providing the world with an opportunity for the expression of completely fucked up views on breastfeeding.
Wow. I couldn’t honestly read through most of those negative comments. They seem like such so disrespectful, crude, uninformed, and immature. It pisses me off that women’s breasts can be sexualized so obsessively and there is no mind paid to the biological and perfect reason for their existence. UH! I nursed my daughter (which I was very proud of with being a full-time working mother and going through the trials of pumping) until she was a year old and I wouldn’t have minded doing it longer. It is a beautiful experience that nothing else can touch for me. Thanks for the post!
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I’ve been so angry about it the past few days.
It’s so incredibly ignorant and disgusting.
I think the title of your post says it all.
You know I was just thinking…..
People who are so incredibly obsessed with the lives of celebrities. Can we really expect them to know anything about breastfeeding or the health of children. They don’t know shit and they don’t give a shit. They care about how much weight Paris Hilton has gained and which actress is dating which actor.
They’re ignorant fools.
Amazing what authoritative post emerge from the fingers of ignorant anonymous dudes.
Hoyden’s article is great. Thanks for pointing me in her direction.
I agree with Dina, the celebrity-watching public are happy to have opinions on pretty much every single aspect of a celebrity’s life – every other part of their parenting is ripped apart (thinking of Suri and the Christmas present moral panic), so as pathetic and ignorant as it all is, it isn’t particularly surprising or different from the rest of it. Not saying it shouldn’t be called for the utter insanity that it is….
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I read the post over at Hoydon. I think her analysis is brilliant. The mehnz take issue with this because the believe that the purpose of breasts are for sexual pleasure and not to feed and nurture a child. This is about controlling women.
Oddly should a new mother choose not to breastfeed her child she is at once demonized. This is a no win situation for women not matter what direction we look at it from.
all I can say is F**K! am I allowed to say that here? brilliant article and what utter and complete hell. I am so glad that I am not any part of what these women who comment feel about themselves and others.
Selma looks gorgeous btw.
I am absolutely at a loss. I would never have imagined that people could be that idiotic if I didn’t read it for myself.
And, yes, thanks from me, too, for posting this and for sending us to Hoyden–brilliant is definitely the word for Lauredhel’s post.
It appears some men seem to have forgotten the primary biological purpose for breasts. God forbid that a part of the body that looks that good is directed towards something other than them.
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Wow. It IS a pretty awkward situation, though, when your stardom is relatively dependent upon your chest. She’s an unusual case.
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