{"id":532,"date":"2012-05-18T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=532"},"modified":"2012-05-18T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T09:41:09","slug":"porno-mom-and-her-freaky-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Porno mom and her freaky family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Ilana Mercer<\/p>\n

\u201cUnseemliness\u201d is how Charles Murray might call the May 21 Time magazine cover, genuflecting to modern motherhood in America. In \u201cComing Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010,\u201d the libertarian political scientist mentions the \u201ccollapse of a sturdy code\u201d [of conduct] in American society, rendering the nouveau riche upper class indistinguishable in that sense from the ever-accreting lower class.<\/p>\n

\u201cObscene\u201d better captures the mien of the Madonna and child that brazenly stare into the camera \u2013 and at America.<\/a> Time\u2019s cover-models are Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, self-styled, \u201cattachment\u201d parent, and Aram, her chunky, garden gnome of a child.<\/p>\n

(And \u201chollow-elite,\u201d also a Murray moniker, fits Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel. Stengel, whose hagiographical tributes to Nelson Mandela have practically been serialized \u2013 he has completed two, perhaps a third is planned? \u2013 has helped cloak Mandela in the raiment of sainthood. Mandela, that paragon of virtue, has never raised his authoritative voice against the pogroms that have seen thousands of white South Africans murdered and mutilated<\/a> by blacks.)<\/p>\n

In any event, Aram is a real feeder, if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

Grumet junior is large for his tender age of 4. His gaze is cunning, never cute. The miniature man already reaches up to his non-gnomic mom\u2019s waist. To help Aram get at the prized pair \u2013 mom\u2019s perky breasts \u2013 Time\u2019s artistic director has used a stool.<\/p>\n

All the better to satisfy mom\u2019s \u201cmaternal\u201d urges, \u201cNudge nudge, wink wink. Say no-more, say no-more.\u201d<\/p>\n

One other tender touch: Porno-mom\u2019s pelvis is tilted slightly in the direction of her gnome\u2019s grubby hands.<\/p>\n

At this stage, bullying would be the best corrective intervention this kid could hope for. In a better world \u2013 one in which propriety had not been pulverized \u2013 odious Aram would be taunted mercilessly at play school. Were he to make it that far, boob-boy is sure to be smacked about the head by a few manly college boys, later in life.<\/p>\n

For now, Aram remains the play thing of bigger bullies, caught as he is in a maelstrom of mommy dearest\u2019s making. Horrified, television spectators watched the advocacy for the onanism known as \u201cattachment parenting,\u201d with the fascination with which you\u2019d watch maggots crawl in-and-out of a CSI corpse.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people say, you know, you can\u2019t really be intimate with your husband if you\u2019re co-sleeping and \u2026 those are kind of myths, too,\u201d vaporized Mrs. Grumet on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show, to the leering approval of the mad-hatter behind Jamie Lynne Grumet\u2019s Method Parenting. Dr. William Sears was on set to dispense Delphic advice to moms who don\u2019t measure-up. \u201cThese are tools, not rules,\u201d this tool of a doctor effused.<\/p>\n

Viewers of this uniquely American vaudeville were assured by Mrs. Grumet that her relationship with her husband was \u201cvery, very important\u201d to her. If to believe her, daddy too enjoys watching mommy perform. Or as Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus<\/a> put it in 1969, \u201cthe wife is a \u2018goer,\u2019 she\u2019s a sport, she\u2019s interested in photographs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charles Murray\u2019s \u201csturdy code\u201d is moribund but not yet dead. I don\u2019t know if \u201cJoshuaW\u201d from Charlotte, N.C., is a dad too, but this is not his idea of family fun. \u201cHow do I erase this from my computer?\u201d he quipped<\/a> on a chat-board. \u201cIf the feds raid my place, I\u2019m looking at five to 10.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not that cable\u2019s chronically incurious cretins have inquired, but I would be surprised if the appendages shared by the freaky family yield much by way of fluids. Jamie Lynne Grumet is very thin. Nutrients (and nurture, for that matter) are not what the gnome is getting from the breast on which he gnaws. For an intake of fewer than 1,500 to 1,800 calories a day by the mother would put her breast-milk supply at risk. Or so contend the experts. Being as skinny as Mrs. Grumet is would probably degrade the nutritious quality of the liquid as well. Claims Kelly Bonyata, IBCLC: \u201cFat-soluble environmental contaminants and toxins stored in body fat are released into the milk when caloric intake is severely restricted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, the toddler\u2019s toxicity came in handy. Aram made it hard for viewers to make head or tail of porno mom\u2019s NBC disquisition on \u201cattachment parenting.\u201d \u201cBuddy,\u201d as mom referred to Aram, kvetched a lot (as any half-decent parent could have predicted).<\/p>\n

Yes, America\u2019s Model Mom is a boob of very little brain, to quote<\/a> Winnie the Pooh. Aram is \u201cself-weaning right now,\u201d the vacuous Mrs. Grumet intoned affectatiously, as the gnome\u2019s self-whining reached a crescendo.<\/p>\n

To the infant, the breast is a non-sexual organ, on which he depends for sustenance and solace. As a mother who breast-fed her baby, I understand how close a bond breast-feeding fosters. My daughter would play with a lock of my hair, or stop feeding to crack a smile. She would always turn a meal into an occasion. But when she emphatically rejected this unarguably suffocating closeness, I let go.<\/p>\n

Having read Sigmund Freud\u2019s primary works (as opposed to secondary source commentary about them), I consider him one of the most creative and imaginative writers. While I would not put much store on the pioneering psychoanalyst\u2019s reductive theories of child psychosexual development, about one thing Freud was right: Children are sexual beings.<\/p>\n

But as King Solomon (allegedly) preached in the Book of Ecclesiastes, \u201cThere is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Appropriate, non-perverse parenting should never awaken and amplify a sexuality that is destined to lie dormant until much later in life.<\/p>\n

Stage theories (in the social sciences, at least) are problematic because they are so formulaic. However, Erik Erikson\u2019s stages of psychosocial development have much to impart. Central to the existential conflicts Aram Grumet should be experiencing right about now are issues of \u201cAutonomy vs. Shame and Doubt,\u201d and \u201cInitiative vs. Guilt\u201d \u2013 the unsuccessful resolution of which could give rise to anything from obsessive and impulsive traits, to antisocial and narcissistic ones.<\/p>\n

From the little we\u2019ve seen of him, Aram is awfully unpleasant, a walking, whinging DSM-5<\/a> textbook \u2013 that\u2019s the psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders \u2013 in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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