ANYTIME ANYBODY COULD BE STANDING UP wid duh mout’ ovah a woman’s breast, dat body would have tuh be her significant other who is another adult like herself, not a four- or six-year-old male child.
The other day I see a picture pon the cover of Time magazine wid a big-able boy child standing up in a chair sucking he mother breast.
Now check out how the boy look. He got on army camouflage fatigues and a green T-shirt. Dah ain’t all. He got two big-able boots on pon he foot like a construction worker or like he about tuh go tuh war.
Wha’ a baby does dress so? He is a man-child.
I ain’t know ’bout wunna women out there, but I gine tell ya: I ain’t care how much attachment wunna talk ’bout, I ain’t promising a boy dat I gine be nursing nuh child longer than nine months. I think dat dat is more than enough time tuh be weaned; anything after dat is disgusting and I ain’t got nuh kinda apology tuh make tuh a soul fuh dat. I think it is very sick!
I know a young woman ’bout here who got a four-year-old boy child going tuh school in full uniform, wid a haversack on pon he back, talking and giving ya nuff, nuff backchat, running up and down all ovah the place wid all the rest o’ children both at school and home, eating more Kentucky than the colonel could cook, and then when he get tired and want something tuh soothe him, he does be playing he lifting out he mother breast – uh mean two fry eggs ’cause dem ain’t look like nuh kinda breast nuh more – and saying he nursing.
I had a sister who I used tuh tell off morning noon and night, evah chance I get. She had a baby and obviously used tuh nurse it. Now, the child was way past a year and eating food – not baby food, not mashed potatoes, not pumpkin or squash nutten so.
Couldn’t understand it
The boy had a few teet’ less than a shark in he mout’ and wha’evah pass by dat evahbody else in the house was eating, he was eating it, but from the time she sit down, she was allowing he tuh walk up tuh her, reach inside o’ her blouse or wha’evah she was wearing, saying he want bub-bubs. He would then take out one o’ her breast, put it in his mouth and he nursing.
It used tuh disgust me, hear wha’ I tell ya. Look, I couldn’t understand it then, and I still don’t. I doan think I evah will.
But suppose my mother was so?
My mother had a bundle o’ we, real nuff children, 11 tuh be exact and more boys than girls too; all o’ we is about two years apart.
Now, tell me something: you could imagine my poor mother nursing dem licorish, unreasonable boy children all the way up in four and five years?
Wha’ dah poor woman won’t have time tuh sleep far less get up tuh look after the rest o’ we children; she would be forever sitting down wid big-able hard-back boy children always attached tuh her breast; wha’ she won’t have nuh kinda time tuh herself.
Look, eagles does kick duh young outta the nest after a while so dat they would learn tuh fly and make a life fuh demselves, so wha happen tuh mankind?
A woman from Arkansas said in the article dat even a cow does know when tuh wean its young. Another woman say dat it is extreme parenting. I ain’t know ’bout all o’ dat. All I know is dat every animal in the world does have a time tuh stop nursing duh young, but you would notice dat it is only the human beings who does go against how nature is supposed tuh happen.
Sometimes ya does see a dog, a cat or a pig wid sometimes more young ones than breasts fuh all tuh feed at the same time, and when she cahn take it nuhmore, she does jump up, kick dem off and go her merry way. You would never see one o’ these animals going all the way up tuh months or nothing so. When she think it is time fuh the young ones tuh done, dem done!
But tell me something? How come it is only the boys who does be playing dat dem cahn stop nursing? And another thing, how it is only theboys dat the women does keep attached tuh duh breasts so all the time? Whatevah, I think something is wrong wid these kinda women so.
• Mavis Beckles was born and raised in The Orleans. She has an opinion on everything.
