Here's a wonderful article about the uproar when Victoria Secret model, Miranda Kerr, had the audacity and the immodesty to post a breastfeeding picture on her blog. An underwear model posted a breastfeeding picture and suddenly she is immodest? Oh my F-ing God.
The reason I like this article is that it calls BS on the Boob False Dichotomy. The BFD is my name for this need we have to make boobs be for ONE THING ONLY.
On one side of the dichotomy, moms wearing denim jumpers who only do it with the lights off claim that boobs are exclusively for nursing babies. I imagine them smacking the hands of their randy husbands if they ever dared to touch one of their wives' saintly boobs.
On the other side of the dichotomy, I imagine the woman from the Cake song "Italian Leather Sofa" who has "a silk dress and healthy breasts that bounce on his Italian leather sofa." You know, the yuppies who claim that breastfeeding is disgusting, that boobs are only for sex, and that children should never set foot in any restaurant other than McDonald's.
I was glad to find in the article that someone besides me thinks that boobs are for nursing babies (and even children big enough to say "Mom, would now be an okay time to nurse?") and for enticing men into bed.
As an end to this review (Yes, it's a review AND a rant, so please go read the original article!), I'm gonna reveal one more scandalous secret. Women can be both nurturing mothers and sex objects at the same time. Pregnant women routinely boink their partners; nursing moms sometimes take pole dancing classes; and your own mom probably let your dad fondle the same boobs that she nursed you with (if you were lucky). Get over it.
