The reason this mum covered her baby with a Victoria Secret model pic will make you very angry
The double standards of a society that thinks images of women pouting in sexy bras are okay, but ones of breastfeeding mums aren’t, was laid bare brilliantly by a fed-up nursing mum.
After images on social media of her breastfeeding her baby were reported five times, Maria Corry decided she had enough. Highlighting the hypocrisy that exists, she posted a photo where she covered her breastfeeding baby with a photo of an underwear-clad Victoria Secret model.
“So since my breastfeeding photo which showed NOTHING got reported more than FIVE times, I'm posting this,” she said in her post. “I bet this won't be reported, because you can see this picture in every mall you step into, huge and blown up outside the store. This is not frowned upon, or ever reported, as it is seen everywhere. But a women nurturing and feeding their baby is looked down on. That is completely absurd!”
And echoing what we here at MagicMum regularly purport, she reiterated what breasts were made to do by nature (and no, funnily enough it’s not to titillate men in magazines or sell bras!)
“Breastfeeding is natural, it's what our breasts were meant for!” she added. “In other countries breastfeeding is praised, and welcomed everywhere! In America, people have so much negative things to say about it! I'm done with this stupid nonsense!”
So since my breastfeeding photo which showed NOTHING got reported more than FIVE times, I'm posting this. I bet this won…
Posted by Maria Corry on Thursday, 18 February 2016
Spot on lady!
We are TOTALLY behind her. And she’s right, it is “stupid nonsense” and we too are done with it! We love how her clever post effectively highlighted the skewed (and illogical as far as we’re concerned) thinking out there. Hopefully it will make people who have a ‘problem’ with breastfeeding reassess why they think that way.