In which I talk about things I have zero experience in

This morning I was reading a post on Gawker about the cover shot of W magazine where Angelina Jolie is breastfeeding and make-up free. It seems as though most people are OMG-ing more about the lack of make-up than the fact that she's breastfeeding, which is cool, although she's so naturally pretty that her skin looks better sans make-up than many women's skin looks with it. But there was a link in that piece to an article about Maggie Gyllenhaall breastfeeding in public where I read the following comment, "Sure, it's her right, but in all seriousness, I plan on having LOTS of sex with my husband after having a child. Baby feeding machine and sex kitten are essentially mutually exclusive images. It's possible to be the former without giving up the latter, so I shall breastfeed indoors without my husband present. I don't care if this is a politically correct or feminist-approved method of thinking. My body. My choice." Now, I 've never given it much thought, not having a husband or a child, but I really don't think those two images are mutually exclusive and I feel sorry for that woman for thinking that doing what her body was meant to do in front of anyone will make her less desirable. And if she really thinks she couldn't breastfeed in front of her husband, is she going to ban him from the room during the birth, too? It just smacks of a very dated mode of thinking, and possibly some body image issues. I mean, boobs can be both purposeful and pleasurable, so why would one thing cancel out the other? That would be sad. So this lady thinks if her husband sees her breastfeeding, he won't ever want to have another baby with her? Poor, mistaken lady.

P.S. I just tried to type something about a turnaround, but I typed Turner Student instead. I have typed that set of words together pretty much everyday, at least one, for the past three and half years. Apparently I can no longer type the word turn without automatically typing Turner Student. :)