Breastfeeding sculpture

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What do you think of this?

it's supposed to be Angelina Jolie breastfeeding. This guy gets on my tits (no pun intended) because he does these awful sculptures of people like britney Spears giving birth and I find them slighty gratuitous. What do you think?

delicate? hardly. bored of patronising little twunts on here? definitely

you did quite well there, btw. could have been better, but it'll do

no extra points though i'm afraid

LOL! VERY delicate.

It's ok. You'll be fine.

yeah you did that one already

got anything else or is that it for your repertoire? you need more practice in online arguing, you really aren't that great

GO on darling, you have the last word. You need it, don't you?

how did this happen ?

I for one wasn't being bitchy when I start the thread, I really do think these sculptures are gratuitous and it seems simple to me...

...If you need cushions or pillows or chairs to breastfeed in this way then why leave the cushions or pillows or chairs out of the sculpture?

Pillows and chairs aren't sexy!

The sculpture is not educating/informing women how to breastfeed.
It is (agreed) a gratuitous sculpture of AJ in the nude, but because it is a naked celebrity it gets media attention, and in doing so raises breastfeeding's profile in a way that comfortable, sensible NHS images won't.

Being new to MN, i soon learned to stay away from BF threads as they all seem to end in bloodshed... but i have to say this one really escalated quickly.

And the topic seemed so innocuous.

I'm impressed.

"The sculpture is not educating/informing women how to breastfeed." but the artist claims the statue is promoting breastfeeding. Is this really the kind of image people want associated with breastfeeding.

Michelangelo doesn't depict breastfeeding any more realistically though.
Nor Giacomotto Serpotta. What is she doing with her free hand?

What kind of sculpture would you want associated with breastfeeding?

this??

On the thread, it just looks like an unprovoked attack on TIY for some reason.

Eirlys - that last one is exactly how I look for the first six months or so.

Eirlys, the Michelangelo is very realistic when breastfeeding a toddler, and I'd guess that Charity is trying to stop the other breast leaking.
Agree on the third one though.

But where's the nappy????

I suppose that the issue I have is that a great part of the breastfeeding debate is centred around the desire to be accepted while breast feeding in public coupled with a general feeling that many people object to public breastfeeding because somewhere along the line the breast has been sexualised to the point where using it for it's proper purpose is considered undignified or 'rude'.

This sculpture shows a woman breastfeeding twins in what I assume would be the privacy of her own home, without a mass of spectators or passers-by. The person making the sculpture should have included the stuff needed (Cushions etc) to give the sculpture context IMO. It does little to change people's views about the breast and public breastfeeding.

but that's just my opinion.

And one I would rather not be published in the Daily Mail.

Also - I see teh word 'discreet' a lot in breastfeeding debates. There is nothing discreet about this sculpture IMO.

This other thread is very confusing. Am I actually the only one who ever breastfeeds naked? (And has done so, too, posing for a life class)

The sculpture is stylistically not my cup of tea, but I find the comments about realism etc a bit stupid. It's art, not a documentary, FFS.

"but I find the comments about realism etc a bit stupid. It's art, not a documentary"

sorry for starting another thread, where is the other one?

I suppose it's the fact that this guy claims it's promoting breastfeeding and making more people aware which annoys me. Either it's art (FFS!) or it's a campaign. I suppose it can be both but maybe there should have been more thought put into it by the artist?

It's also his other art which worries me, it is gratuitous IMO.

Does this sculpture portray breastfeeding in a negative way, in your opinion?

i quite love the realism of the spurting breatsfeeder. that is how it was for me for weeks. i'd have that in my garden. FIL would shut the curtains

" You wouldn't build a sculpture of someone playing the guitar without including the guitar, however obvious it might be that it would have been there."
But the cushions aren't the focus when you're breastfeeding - the baby is! The guitar analogy doesn't work.
And I don't see why it can't promote breastfeeding while not being an ABC guide to how to do it. Anyone who feeds a child older than about 4 months probably does it in a 'non-standard' way but doing it in public is still helping to normalise and promote breastfeeding.

it would be, but i agree it was probably more likely shock / novelty value. Still hope the outcome will be the same.
Where is this thing anyway??