We shouldn’t be surprised.  Anything remotely associated with sex--and the photo is a very remote association--is taboo.  The outrage is also in line with the anti-intellectual strain of the fearmongers running the show these days: religious ideology trumps good sense.

The breast is just a body part like any other! Why shame it!

America is a bunch of prudes. 

I have traveled extensivley in Europe, and find it amusing to ask Europeans what they think of Americans.

Overwelmingly, the response is “they are so uptight”.

This has nothing to do with religion, it is just our society. 

It is sad.

Well, first of all that is not a giant breast, unless that is a giant baby. Actually, giants live in the same fantasy land where that writer lives who is so upset by the sight of a baby drinkig mother’s milk from the source.

What strange rationalizations and ignorance the human mind can come up with to criticize mother’s providing milk to babies.

This is the same mentality that swept the Mother-Godess under the rug in the myth of the Garden of Eden and had only a snake as her representative and called it “evil.”

Hey just think of the mass hysterical apoplexy that would have overcome the nation if a NIPPLE had been showing!

This “outrage” reaction is just about the silliest, most immature one I’ve seen since the nonsense over Janice Jackson’s “wardrobe failure” on the Superbowl. The way our “authorities” handled that one was about as infantile and stupid as you can get.

“Babytalk” should rename itself “BabyREAD - The Magazine for Small-Minded, Immature, Hysterical, Scared-Shitless Puritans Who Simply Can’t Deal with Reality.”

And yes, Ivan, American kids are screwed up… but it’s not their fault. Their parents, schools and leaders/role models simply don’t know any better themselves.

In America, being a parent is an unassailable position. It doesn’t matter how badly you screw up your kids… their yours to screw up and nobody can stop you. Until that little piece of profound stupidity is remedied, the screwups will keep coming by the millions.

Spinoza was a rationalist.  If he were alive today he would oppose capitalism and the thinking of supporters of capitalism.

ENOUGH SAID, fight fascism in all of its guises.

Now if they really wanted to stir things up, they would have made it a white baby suckling a black breast. Just imagine the national uproar and media frenzy that would have made.

No wonder American children are so screwed up. Commerce and commercial media insists on using the breast to sell products for profit, and at the same time considers the natural biological purpose of teh breast as obscene. Kids are always given the “you can look but don’t touch” position over and over.
On a side note, but still on the idea:
The networks are fined heavily for saying “bad” words on their programs, yet the president says such words and is hailed even more by his sheep-like followers. The kids are given the “do as we say but not as we do” position.