I’ma talk about mamas if y’all don’t mind. This week, Jamie Grumet drew a lot of flak for breastfeeding her almost 4-year-old son on the cover of Time’s upcoming May 21 magazine. The image is running in conjunction with a story about attached parenting, which entails breast-feeding all the way into toddler years and co-sleeping, in which the child joins his or her parents in bed. It seems like most of the criticism directed towards the cover is predicated on the image itself, which features Aram standing very awkwardly on a chair with his mother’s breast in his mouth as he gazes into the camera. There is an argument that the posing of the photo doesn’t reflect the nurturing aspect of attached parenting because the pictured feeding is being done in a manufactured, unnatural manner. Imagine having to be the photographer and telling this child to put his mother’s breast in his mouth. I hope it didn’t necessitate too many takes.

Breasts sell magazines. Even pregnant breasts sell magazines. When Demi Moore posed nude on Vanity Fair with a belly full of baby, I’m fairly certain people didn’t spend a dime on any other magazine that month. Time is no stranger to controversy either and they’re not