May 10, 2012

• Internet Overexposure

  So have you seen the picture on the cover of Time Magazine, with the no-longer-a-baby aged kid being breastfed by his thin, attractive, blonde mom? Of course you have, because it’s EVERYWHERE online. I didn’t watch the news tonight, because I rarely watch the news with our kids around, and they seem to always be around. But if I had watched the news, I bet I would have seen the magazine cover there and heard more about the shock factor.

  It is a shocking photo – duh, they want to sell magazines.

  I know the article is about attachment parenting, but I can’t find the article online to actually read it. From what I can tell, you need a Time subscription to read it there, and I don’t have one. Did all the other people who commented on the photo pay to read the article? Or are they more cyber savvy than I and manage to find free access to read it? Or did they (horrors!) not read the article at all and just comment on the cover?

  Eh, who cares. I only feel like I want to read the article because I want to know if I need to be on the offensive, ready to be attacked by anyone. There’s a war on women, you know, in case you hadn’t heard. And thanks to Mrs. Romney, we SAHMs have been taking it on the chin a bit. So when I see the tag line under the photo on Time says, “Are You Mom Enough?” — I get suspicious as to whether or not I’m being mocked or attacked or judged.

  HAHAHAHA! Of course I am. That’s what women do to each other. We don’t need a magazine cover to get us going. Silly Time Warner.

  The real reason I bring up this magazine cover is because a guy I know from college, a guy with a very odd sense of humor, decided to alter the photo today on his Facebook page. He pasted the face of a mutual friend from college (very poorly) onto the nursing child’s body and made some lame joke about this being how the guy keeps his youthful appearance. Stupid, not worth my comment. But he tagged me in the photo. WHAT? So now everyone who I’m friends with sees this creepy picture of my now-a-dentist college friend suckling on this blonde babe of a mom and sees my name associated with it? Gross.

  I untagged myself, because apparently my Google skills are good enough to figure that one out.

  (I know @ordinarybutloud is now mumbling about how Facebook is the devil, so let’s pause for a minute so she can get that out of her system.)

  There. That’s better.

  It’s really not that big of a deal, but it made me mad to have someone else trying to mess with my Facebook persona, which is carefully constructed, I might add. If you were to spend some time on my FB page, you would get inklings of my political leanings and causes that I support. But I’m not in-your-face about it, because you know what I always say – keep it light and fluffy on the devil FB. That picture did not really scream light and fluffy, what with the middle aged man face and all. Maybe I should go post a picture of a teddy bear or something, to restore the fluffiness.

   

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