Monday, July 2, 2012

Because breastfeeding beyond infancy is worse than rape, incest and gore

I read this article. And. It is OUTRAGEOUSLY bad. I thought it would be funny and satirical but dude has not a clue:
Tywin Lannister, father of Tyrion (the antihero dwarf played by Peter Dinklage), is one of the unheralded dads of “Game of Thrones.” He’s fiercely loyal to his children and apt to say things like, “Family is all that lives on.” 
I was guffawing at the absurdity of Tywin Lannister being seen as an 'unheralded dad' when I read on to this:
Young Robin Arryn’s breast-feeding was voted “Most WTF Moment in GOT” at Fanpop, and it’s easy to see why. There’s something unnerving about breast-feeding to begin with. Oh sure, it’s beautiful and natural and it saves money on formula, but it’s a fundamental repurposing of a woman’s body: What was once A is now B (and maybe a little bit of A if the kid’s asleep). The hijacking that starts in pregnancy continues until — well, for Robin, it appears to have gone on way past my wife’s rule: “If he’s old enough to ask for it, he’s too old for it.
CUE FURIOUS FIST SHAKING. The author is clearly the unthinking posterboy for the capitalist heteropatriarchy. Seriously, otherwise how could someone write sincerely that breastfeeding is the 'fundamental repurposing' of breasts? That it is 'unnerving' and 'saves money on formula'? Artificial milk being, obviously, the reassuring biological norm. Thus the author trots out the pseudo-feminist rhetoric where the baby is the creepy bodysnatcher who seeks to desexualise the mother and prevent the father from his rightful 'A'. Especially if the baby can speak - because breastfeeding transforms into a perverse, sexual act when communication is involved.

Moreover, on a poll where the other options include 'Twincest', 'Ned Stark Loses His Head' and 'Everything The Mountain Does', the winner was 'Robin Arryn Loves Milk'. Even though in most cultures other than our demented, misogynistic farce of one the normal weaning age range is TWO to SEVEN. Clearly, breast-feeding beyond infancy is worse than incest, execution and mass murderers.

THIS ARTICLE HAS UNLEASHED THE DRAGON. RAAAAGGGGEEEEEEE.

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