This is pretty darn interesting.

If the world could vote.

Noticed how countries with non-democratic tendencies tend towards McCain? *g*

Well, no secret what I would vote, right? Although, on the other hand… McCain and Palin would probably make even better laughing stock than Mr. George W. Or almost.

In The Know: Candidates Compete For Vital Idgit Vote

Friedrich von Schiller

What comes to mind when you read the title of this entry? Hardcore porn? Wrong! Read on, and you’ll learn about the depths of idiocy.

Here is the story: A little magazine, a freebie giveaway you can find at Baby’s supply stores, features a cover photo with a baby suckling on its mother’s breast. This is according to the title story, “why women don’t nurse longer”. Have a look at the picture:

Look at it real hard.

What you can see on the picture is a really cute little baby’s head. What you also can see on the picture is the curve of its mother’s breast, as the wee one is currently being fed. What you can NOT see is anything even remotely reminding us of porn. Why, there’s not even a nipple! At least none to be seen.

But what happened in the US of A, the land of the brave and free, when they saw the title of this little magazine? An uproar! Shocked and hurt phonecalls and emails!

“I was shocked to see a huge breast on the cover of a magazine”, a woman from Kansas writes, “I feel offended by it, and my husband felt very awkward when he saw the magazine in our livingroom”.

A woman from Nevada wrote: “I immediately turned the magazine around when I looked at the cover. It’s incredible. Seeing a baby hanging at its mother’s breast makes me feel sick. I had to rip off the cover so that my husband wouldn’t see”.

Dear woman from Nevada and Kansas, and dear other women who felt “offended” by a photo of a nursing baby, here is what I really like to tell you:

These two, soft protrusions in front of your torso are breasts. God gave them to you. He did this for one primary reason: So that you can feed a baby with it. Their god-given reason is just what you saw on this offending picture. I have a deep understanding that you might prefer your husband ejaculating on them, or other kinky stuff, but face it: THAT’S WHAT TITS ARE FOR!

And just to enlighten you: I live in a part of the world where pictures like that are not only on magazine covers on a regular basis, but also on book covers, and where women nurse their babies whereever the babies feel like being fed: In restaurants, in museums and in parcs. This strange and wonderful part of the world is called Europe, in case you never heard of it in Kansas or Nevada. Some call it “Old Europe” over there. Yes, I am proud of that term.

To be a little bit more serious: Breastfeeding is considered as the best way of nurturing a baby, and not by some perverts, but by a majority of renowned scientists. It is good for the health of the baby, it prevents allergies and adiposity (let me remind you that America is the land of the Fat!), it reduces the danger of breast-cancer for the nursing mother, and it is good for the baby’s psyche and soul. It is a disgrace that such common knowledge has not reached the US yet – but then, much common knowledge hasn’t. Have a look at this page, dear American women, and read and learn: http://www.lalecheleague.org/Law/summary.html

Thanks to “babytalk” for opening the debate by being the first (can you believe it, the FIRST!!!) American magazine to feature a nursing baby on its cover. Perhaps the discussion can be a next step for the US to cross the Rubicon … and leave the Middle Ages.

? P.S. Oh, I almost forgot: A footnote to both women from Kansas and Nevada. If your husbands feel awkward seeing such a photo, or if you even have to hide it from them: Think about your marriage. Real hard. Then take a lover. Or give your guys a real good blowjob. But DO something about it, for heaven’s sake!