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Subj : Re: This Train Just Went Splat!
To   : alt.tv.er
From : npardue
Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 08:49:00

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er


Dropping The Helicopter wrote:
> npardue@indiana.edu wrote:
> [snip]
> > That was sick
> > about the breast feeding.  It's disgusting enough when a younger kid
> > can
> > say," nurse me."  Still, the story needed more development.
> >
> > Not sure what was sick about it.
>
> The part about the kid being SIX YEARS OLD.

Actually, we dont' know how old he was.  The staff guessed that he was
6, he could have been 4 or 5. But, in anycase, even if he was six, that
doesn't make it sick.

>
> >  It was, unfortunately, another
> > example of the show playing breastfeeding for laughs.  Some kids that
> > old DO still breastfeed, and there's nothing wrong with it.
>
> Yes, there is.

Do tell?  What's wrong with it?

>
> > However,
> > they don't do it for a large part of their nutrition,
>
> So, then... why do they do it?  Right: because mommy has some
> industrial-strength case-hardened "issues", and she'd rather irreparably
> damage her child than seek the professional help she so desperately and
> obviously needs.

Sorry, but it doesn't work that way.  A mother, no matter what he
'issues' are, can't make a kid breastfeed if the kid doesn't want to.
While it is, of course, very uncommon (at least in our society) for
kids this old to be breastfeeding, when they are it's usually an
infrequent 'comfort' practice, because the child still finds it helpful
in some way.

The whole point being that in THIS case they showed it as being a werid
mother with weird issue ... but IRL it would never happen that way.

Naomi

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