So this week the tabloids, gossip columnists and other lame people have been having brain aneurisms over Shiloh Jolie-Pitt's hair. Egad! It is short! It is boyish! FREAK OUT!!!
"WHY IS ANGELINA TURNING SHILOH INTO A BOY??????"
This is just ridiculous on soooooooooo many levels.
(1) Who cares? Maybe the kid likes to dress that way. Has anyone bothered to ask her opinion? Thought not! And besides, it could have a very logical explanation: My parents kept my hair quite short because I fussed and cried so much when they brushed my hair. Don't like have your hair brushed kid, fine, we'll make it so you don't have to have your hair brushed. Sounds like a good plan to me. Did I feel oppressed and traumatized about it? No!
(2) Who on earth really thinks Angelina has some sort of radical counter-cultural plot to turn her child into a boy? Insane people. And you know, plenty of parents go out of their way to protect their kids from limiting gender roles. It is nothing new. It is nothing to call social services about. In fact young girls who display more androgynous characteristics tend to have higher self-esteem.
(3) Taking on gender roles and encouraging your kid to defy them is pretty darn awesome! We should all do it more often. Go Angelina!
(4) And wait a just a flipping minute, how is this all Angelina's fault anyway??????
(5) I'm sorry but WTF!!!!!!!! is with the comparisons to Suri Cruz? Who on earth decided that she was the penultimate example of little girlhood? Is the press really trying to pit two celebrity CHILDREN against each other? Really? REALLY? Can't we at least wait until they are a tad older, and maybe, I don't know, can read and write? AND since when are Suri and mom saints with their high-heeled shoes and designer purses that we all spat out our spleens over last week? You can't have it both ways people!
(6) This whole issue is so freaking stupid I makes me want to spit!!!! We are supposed to live in a new modern and accepting world full of liberal minded PC people. And it is suddenly ok to go all bad-mother-finger-pointing because a TODDLER is tomboyish? How on EARTH are we supposed to accept ADULTS who transgress these apparently set-in-stone rules and regulations.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **is a figurative one-person riot**
first of all. i apologize for the silly name.
ReplyDeletei am not a captivative fan of Lord Alfred Tennyson... i do respect his work, but we have a blog for english. hence the pseudonyms
but i do agree with your thoughts on this subject. ever since the kids were born they have been compared to each other, much in the sense that you have described. i can only with them the best.