re: #132 goddamnedfrank

I see it as child exploitation, the kid is too old to be breastfeeding but too young to have any say in the matter. Creating a public image of the the kid centered around his parent’s obsessive fixation seems likely to have negative consequences into the future. It hits all the same disturbing buttons activated by child beauty pageants, except from the other end. Instead of seeing a child forced to act and dress far older than is appropriate we’re seeing a child be creepily infantilized.

Eh, I see nothing wrong with a kid that age breastfeeding other than that we have culturally decided to frown upon it and that’s not a good enough reason for me. Is it unusual? Sure. But I doubt it does any harm. Now, if anything sexual starts getting involved, then we have a problem.