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Douchebag Decree: Side Boobs and Fat Babies—Five Not-So-Subtle Magazine Covers

Douchebag Decree post by Kjerstin Johnson on May 15, 2012 - 1:30pm; tagged Douchebag Decree, Time magazine.
A cover of Time magazine featuring a young thin white woman defiantly staring at the camera as she breastfeeds her three year old. He is standing on a chair, mouth pressed against her one exposed breast, and is also looking at the camera. The headline reads, Are You Mom Enough?

We get it. Selling magazines is tough. As a feminist nonprofit swimming in publishing world, we know how hard it is to keep your head above water. (Completely unrelated: Do you have your Bitch magazine digital subscription yet?) But some magazines feel the need to push their publication with provocative cover photos and headlines in order to compete with the Huffington Post. Here are some recent offenders...

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Fertile Ground: Attachment Parenting Isn't About Being "Mom Enough"

Social Commentary post by Alison Parker on May 11, 2012 - 1:32pm; tagged attachment parenting, breastfeeding, dr. sears, feminism, motherhood, Time magazine.

cover of the attachment parenting book, showing a white baby looking out at the cameraMaybe it is because I am breast-feeding my own son and am used to seeing women whip out a boob to put in baby’s mouth at the drop of a hat, but when I saw the cover of TIME this week, I didn’t find it all that odd.

Frankly, my first thought was, "Great! A picture of a woman breast-feeding!" After the uproar in 2009 about Facebook removing photos of breastfeeding mothers, as well as the rise of “lactivists” staging nursing sit-ins everywhere from airports to the Hirshhorn Museum—places that had asked women to stop nursing their babies—I usually appreciate seeing breastfeeding in the media. Obviously, though, when we have steps forward, we have steps back. The TIME cover is problematic in several ways, its problems well-pointed out in a previous Bitch post. Also unfortunate is the way the image coats the story inside, which covers “attachment parenting” with a greasy, unfriendly film.

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Fertile Ground: Where the Girls Are...Not: Gendering Outdoor Play

Social Commentary post by Alison Parker on April 6, 2012 - 10:02am; tagged children, ecofeminism, green feminism, kids playing outside, mothering, Nature Deficit Disorder, Parenting, Time magazine.

a black and white photo of a group of girls in dresses and hair bows standing outside

A recent article in TIME magazine reveals a study that says kids are not getting outside enough. It is the girls who are neglected the most—they're 16% less likely than boys to be taken outdoors. Really?

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No Kidding: Studies Tell Us Parenting is Tough

Social Commentary post by Brittany Shoot on March 11, 2011 - 11:21am; tagged childfree, childless, children, Choice, New York magazine, No Kidding, Parenting, Time magazine.
Last week, Time published "Kid Crazy: Why We Exaggerate the Joys of Parenthood." This piece focuses on studies from the journal Psychological Science about parenting, and the take-away is the same as the New York article (so much so that it's mentioned in Time): childfree couples are happier, parents have it rough, and those who think they don't are sort of delusional. ("Delusional" is not my word, by the way; that's from the meta title Time chose for the article on their website and one tossed around in the article, based on the study findings.)
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How Could $3 Million for Postpartum Research Hurt Women?

Science post by Sarah Mirk on July 19, 2009 - 1:04pm; tagged Big Pharma, federal healthcare, media criticism, mental health, Mother's Act, perinatal health, postpartum depression, Postpartum Progress, Time magazine, women's health.
A landmark federal bill aiming to put $3 million into research and education about postpartum depression is gathering controversy as it heads to the Senate floor. Advocates of the Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act (known as the Mother's Act) say it will save the lives of women and finally help develop decent education about a long-dismissed female health problem. Critics say it will cause more women to take pharmaceuticals unnecessarily. But recently the big debate has been not so much about the bill itself as media coverage of the bill.

Last week, Time ran an article about the Mother's Act which featured an interview with a mother who was prescribed Zoloft after giving birth. The drug made things worse, causing her to have violent fantasies.

Time's story ignited the ire of many who argue that the article intentionally left out pro-Mothers Act voices to push an editorial agenda. Keep reading for more details!
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Time's 100 Most Influential List, by the Numbers

Social Commentary post by Deesha Philyaw on May 6, 2009 - 10:15am; tagged black women, lists, Time magazine, women of color.

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Who is this woman? And why is she on Time's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World?  Read on for the answers and for my look at the list, by the numbers.

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