Breast Feeding

Not that this video didn't make me cringe, but why is this really so wrong?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxv6R9fUO74

When should we stop breast feeding? Why do we stop breastfeeding?
Why do we find it SO disgusting to drink our own mothers' milk after a certain age but we'll drink gallons of cow milk, goat milk etc.?

Not that asking the above questions was the central reason for this post..
What I REALLY wanted to address were the absolute disgusting remarks that were made ABOUT the video in the comment section on youtube.

I found it absolutely disgusting that people were referring to this mother as an abuser. I found it absolutely disgusting that people said she was getting sexual pleasure out of this. I found it atrocious that they referred to both the mother and the children in the videos as "dykes" (ongoing comments make accusations of them having some sort of incest lesbian affair).

These comments are horribly sexist, heteronormative and culturally imperialist. There were so many hateful remarks, not questioning the validity of breastfeeding past a certain age, but rather was prescriptive of what women should do with their bodies and what it means to be a "good mother".

In fact, it is so interesting to see how loving this mother truly is and how maternal she is, which is like, a serious "mothering-woman skill". And then as soon as a woman overextends that maternal action, she all of a sudden becomes "sick" or a pedophile.

Furthermore, the way people attacked her for her and her children's sexual orientations- as if breastfeeding, pleasure or non-pleasure with the experience of breastfeeding, and sexual orientation are at all related.

I don't necessarily think breastfeeding at the age of 8 is Kosher, but I DO understand that my understanding of breastfeeding and the conditions under which breastfeeding should happen are culturally and socially defined. I'm not going to make hateful remarks just because I disagree. RECOMMEND this Post on Progressive Bloggers CLICK HERE!