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A
breast-feeding metaphor
in a 'twisted society'
12-19-00
To
the editor:
Recently
a woman in Champaign County lost her son because she supposedly
was forcing him to continue breast-feeding and slept with him. As
an extended breast-feeder and co-sleeper myself, I was outraged by
the actions of the state and wrote this metaphor to show how
absurd our culture's view of the breast has become. It is so sad
that everything that used to be innocent has now become perverse
and everything that used to be considered perverse has now become
innocent.
A
Metaphor for the Perverted "Established Authority" and
Today's Twisted Society
by
Tonya Siltman
(an
extended breast-feeder and co-sleeper)
"Department
of Children and Family Services. May I help you?"
"Yes,
I want to report a mother for child abuse."
"What
is the mother doing?"
"Well,
I can hardly say this, but when I was babysitting I witnessed her
making her child eat… well, she was…"
"Yes,
go on."
"She
was forcing her child to eat…to eat broccoli!"
"Broccoli!"
"Yes,
it was so disgusting and I was so embarrassed!"
"Well,
ma'am, I don't know if we can really do anything about a mother
forcing her child to eat broccoli. Doctors have been saying for
years now that broccoli is one of the best vegetables you can feed
your child. They are full of vitamins and antioxidants."
"Yes,
but the way broccoli is used these days. Surely you saw what Tom
Cruise and Nicole Kidman did with broccoli in their movie
"Broccoli Wide Shut," and what about those routines
exotic dancers do with broccoli? I have heard plenty of stories
from all those men who put their diaper money down the dancers’
G-strings. You have not forgotten what the president and Monica
did with broccoli! It was just so gross, you should have seen what
this little boy looked like with a piece of broccoli hanging out
of his mouth! When he finds out what broccoli is really used for
he will be emotionally destroyed forever!"
"OK,
ma'am, just relax. We will investigate."
(A
few days later:)
"Yes,
may I help you?"
"We
are from The Department of Children and Family Services, and we
need to investigate a report of sexual abuse."
"What!
I don't sexually abuse my son!"
"I
am sorry but we must come in and talk to your son, alone."
"Well,
I guess so. After you talk to him you will see I have done nothing
wrong."
"Billy,
come here, hon, there are some people who want to talk with
you."
"Yes,
mommy?"
"Billy,
these people want to ask you some questions."
"Hi,
Billy. Just answer our questions honestly and everything will be
fine.
"Does
your mother make you eat broccoli?"
"Yes."
"Do
you want to eat broccoli, Billy?"
"No!
I hate broccoli!"
"Do
you know what people do with broccoli?"
"Yes,
they eat it."
"Not
exactly, Billy. What your mother is doing is wrong, and you need
to come with us. Come on, son."
"Mommy!
No, I don't want to go! Please, mommy. No!"
"Oh
Billy, it will be all right, honey! I will get this all worked
out!"
"Mommy!"
Tonya
Siltman
Great site
12-12-00
To
the editor:
We
are very pleased with the Lincoln Daily News site. We
are missionaries living in Papua New Guinea and have access to the
Internet. We visit this site almost daily to keep in touch
with what is going on back "home." Keep up the
good work. Thanks for your hard work in putting this site
together.
Lori
Urton
Papua
New Guinea
Weather
page
12-12-00
To
the editor:
Is
it a joke? I don't understand why the weather
web page consists only of a photo of the Lincoln weather station.
It looks as though you took no time in which to properly construct
a serious web page. I am sure that the community expects more than
what you have made available. I strongly urge you to take a closer
look at your weather site and make some greatly needed
improvements.
James
L. Shelton
New
Holland
Thank
you for your input. We value our readers' responses. They are who
we serve.
When
we constructed the page we only intended to provide a link to a
weather website. From time to time we have chosen to provide a
local article that would be informative and stay there for a
while.
I'm
a weather purist. I just want to know what's going on where. With
the link that is provided on that page you can get
up-to-the-moment weather details for anywhere you can think of in
the world just by clicking on the weather forecast.
I'm
not sure what it is that you would like to see there.
We
have removed the local article about the weather station.
I
can see where the page could be dressed up with seasonal pictures,
weather tidbits provided, and changed seasonally. Perhaps we'll do
something more sometime in the future.
Thank
you for your observation.
Jan
Youngquist
Managing
editor
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