re: Mom criticized for breastfeeding 9 yr-old says, 'It's nice for the child to be in control'

It could be worse.

This crazy woman would make comics and dress up in a paper mache costume of her Hathor character to "free" the boob.

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Crazy Factor

Now you may be thinking, "How crazy is this woman?" You know those pictures where Hathor militantly enforces her opinions on the masses and allows no dissenting viewpoints? In a mothering chat in 2006, Cushman-Dowdee stated that amongst her group of mothers she is actually one of the milder ones, and that she endorses laying her webcomics around in a manner similar to how people lay around Jack Chick pamphlets (Jack Chick and Hathor the Cow Goddess- isn't that a cage match you'd love to see?). Let's also not forget that Cushman-Dowdee also tries to claim that C-sections are linked to violence rates.

She's also fond of claiming how great things were in the past when women constantly had home births, breastfed with impunity and taught everything to their children at home. I'm guessing that she's also overlooking the fact that with those home births also came extremely high death rates for both women and children. Oh, and also that the sum of what most children were taught comprised of "women cook and obey their men" as well as "men control women and learn a trade". Plus the bonus fun of most girls being married and pregnant by the age of fourteen. And let's not forget that back then, showing some ankle was considered to be an extremely sensual thing, so the likelihood of women being able to whip out their breasts in the early 1900s or sit down and breastfeed in the market square during the 1700-1800s was pretty slim. Reeeaaaallly slim (and the only ones who did show substantial cleavage at all were usually courtesans, looney ladies or out-and-out prostitutes).

In other chats, Hathor encourages mothers to give their six-year-old children wood, hammers, and nails, encourages her fans to gang up on a dissenting poster, claims that being a doctor automatically makes you a bad parent, admits that one of her daughters didn't learn how to read until she was eight years old due to "unschooling", scoffs at doctors who classify certain pregnancies as "high risk" and recommends firing them, blames mental retardation on vaccinations (and here I thought it was all genetic-- thanks Hathor!), reveals that everyone in her family sleeps in the same bed (inspiring the webcomics Why Daddy's Protruding, Moaning Doesn't Mean Mommy is in Pain, and Daddy Likes to Breastfeed Too!), hints that her utilization of unschooling may be due to laziness, and shows admiration that a sixteen-year-old would drop out of high school in order to travel the road with his father.

And if all that bundle of crazy and delusions weren't bad enough, Cushman-Dowdee also does performance art where she includes her own breast milk.

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