Really, for fuck’s sake. So little Shiloh has spurned little dresses and sports a short hair cut and ‘Life & Style’ magazine is ‘shocked’??? Yeah, because god forbid she might not want to plaster her bedroom in pink and grow up to look like Barbie. OMG she might catch Teh Gay!
Jesus, makes me SO angry. As a former (well, maybe current) tomboy myself, LEAVE THIS THREE YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL THE FUCK ALONE.
Fucking parasites! Maybe if the people who bought these shite magazines were made to wear some indicator of their interests, like “I’m a voyeuristic twat.” being stamped on their foreheads, there wouldn’t be as much of a market for this pathetic waste of human time and energy.
Wasn’t CBS News something close to an actual news organization, at one point? I might be unfairly nostalgic—but they haven’t *always *played sloppy seconds to celebrity gossip shitrags, have they?
I’d like to summon outrage, but the day CNN etc. began openly using quotes from the Twitter tweets of illiterate dipshits, a threshold was forever crossed.
They’ve actually been talking about it on BBC London radio this morning. The BBC! The end of the world is nigh.
So the essence of the story is that it’s the right thing to do to follow a child’s choices once it’s not hurtful to them and yet they still talk about it and that magazine twat and all her team where “shocked” when they saw the pics. FFS they really need to fill time don’t they.
My cousin was the most tomboy of tomboys. She wanted her hair short, would only wear boy’s clothes and played with boy’s toys etc. Now she’s an 18 year old mini dress wearing heartbreaker who kicks guys arse at Halo and Gears of War and then flirts them to distraction.
Oh and even if she becomes an uber-lesbian who gives a fuck? It’s her life and once she’s not hurting herself or others people should just not care.
I think it is really not a good idea to give a shit about celebrities or their children. Just don’t read this kind of crap and it goes away.
That’s basically what I looked like as a toddler, and I’m pretty sure I’m still a girl.
Damn, must be a slow news day now that Lindsay’s in lockdown.
Brad Pitt has a daughter?
That’s what I thought. I think celebrity kids should be ignored, not because they’re children and need to grow up in private, but because they’re fucking boring. Who gives a shit what a famous person’s not-famous child does?
The tabloids are just disappointed because Shiloh doesn’t fit their image of what the offspring of The Two Most Beautiful People in the World should look like. They want her to have long flowing hair and wear designer clothes like Tom Cruise’s daughter because they think it sells more magazines.
I’m not really a fan of Jolie and Pitt, but good for them for letting her dress the way she wants.
There’s no reason a tomboy can’t be perfectly sexy. But saying that, we must note that we’re talking about a 3 year old. “Sexy”, “hot”, and “beautiful” are not exactly things we seek in our toddlers, one would hope.
If a 3-year-old girl is running around in jeans and short hair, I have one word for her parents: SMART. YOU try keeping a preschooler’s beautiful dress and long, flowing locks in order for a day.
I do find this pretty upsetting, because by spotlighting this as an issue there is an underlying implication that there’s something unusual or potentially abnormal about breaking gender stereotypes.
I thought the psychologist who weighed in had a pretty balanced perspective though.
In other news, the USA killed 42 civilians in Afghanistan last week which the US military tried to keep quiet. Many were around the age of Ms Pitt.
Just goes to show that we’re still obsessed with the concept of nobility by birthright. Brad Pitt is an Important Person, thus his offspring must be as well.
Heh, reminds me of one likable element (one of the very few) of the somewhat cheesy film But I’m a Cheerleader, about a teenager sent to a “reparative therapy” camp to cure her lesbianism, the joke being that up until then she didn’t even know she was a lesbian but had set off alarm bells with her friends and parents because she didn’t embrace heterosexuality with any real enthusiasm. At the camp she encounters Jan, who loves softball, wears her hair cut very short, is tough and athletic, etc. Later in the film, Jan realizes she does indeed like cock. She likes cock a lot. She’s not at the camp for being a lesbian, but simply because her butch mannerisms and disinterest in stereotypical femininity made eveyone around her assume she was a lesbian.
You said exactly what I was going to say.
Also, I saw this on a tabloid at the grocery store check-out a week or two ago, and I am shocked that it has been deemed important enough to make the mainstream news. And now I really hate them for making me take Angelina Jolie’s side.
“The reaction to the photos was awbsolute shawck” - my reaction to the photos was “big fucking deal.” I listened to about 15 seconds - it was all I could take of that brain-cell-destroying twaddle. Toddler style choices? WTF? I’m going to shop for some land when we drive up north to build our compound on and leave all this idiocy behind.
This is a great movie.
When I first met my SIL she was 12, a very athletic and hyperactive girly-girl who made the boys’ heads spin as they followed her around like lovesick puppies. She tried dating a little later but would always end up brushing the guys off as a kind of nuisance.
At 15 the reason for her disinterest became a bit more clear. Turns out she’s a lesbian. Never saw it coming, though now that’s she’s 19, she’s pretty freakin’ butch. She attended senior prom in a shirt and tie and a baseball cap. Never saw that coming either.
At first I thought she was just butching up because she thought that’s what lesbians are supposed to be like. But in retrospect I don’t think the ‘‘girly’’ her at 12 was any more the ‘‘real’’ her than the ‘‘butch’’ woman she is now. She’s never been anything other than completely true to herself and screw what anyone else thinks. But I guess people really can embrace wildly different gender norms at different times in their lives. It was the first time I ever really saw that in action.