One of the shows I watch is Modern Family. It's a sitcom done in the faux documentary style that seemed to start with The Office.
Anyway, last night's episode (which I watched about a half hour after it aired and was tempted to blog about right away), included Gloria, the sexy second wife of the grandfather, nursing her new baby while she signed for a package. They digitally pixilated her boob, and the dialogue made clear that the baby was nursing/not like it was popped off and it was just a boob that she was showing. There were jokes about her breasts, that she is too free with her body, etc.
Most of the time they were making those jokes she was clothed -- with the low cut tops she wears in which you could see even more of her breast than what was pixilated around the baby's head. I really don't understand why the breast when used for its intended function (even fictionally) is something that requires digital alteration lest we be scandalized. But when it's on display for sexual purposes we have no problem with it.
Furthermore, I don't know why depictions of breastfeeding have to be like that -- somehow shameful or sexual. And I guess it stuck in my craw even more because this particular show uses boob humor on a regular basis.
I know my thoughts aren't fully formulated or useful, but I had to put it out there since it struck me as just wrong and distasteful.
Progressive Christian wife, mama, writer, editor & crocheter blogging from Baton Rouge
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Thank you! Where are the lactivists on this one? I was starting to think I was the only one who noticed!
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