Brad Pitt's daughter is a tomboy. And the problem is...?

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I work at a daycare and see a lot of children everyday. Most of them do not care at all what they are wearing. Hell, half of them probably have something on backward or inside out.

But some kids do. Like the little boy who loved to wear pirate hats and costumes and his sister’s sparkly headband. Or the little girl who insisted on wearing red rain boots for a month. And no matter what they look like, they are happy. The one’s that aren’t are the ones in clothing they don’t like, or wearing bows and ribbons they hate.

When I was a child my mom dressed me in my brother’s hand-me-downs. I didn’t care. I would actively fight with my parents about my hair. Fuck no was I brushing it! I went out with is being messy and wanted it that way. If anyone had said anything to my mom about it she would have laughed in their face. “Bad taste” as a child is not something that should be shocking, but something parents should photograph to embarrass them later. I dearly wish I had a picture of the time I let a friend cut my hair during nap time at preschool. That wouldbe hilarious now.

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Oh, for fucks sake! She’s three-fucking-years-old!

I have to say that was some of the stupidest and most disgusting drivel I’ve ever heard.

Having had five boys (no girls), I can’t speak from personal experience but I would think that a three-year-old doesn’t really give a crap about her hair and clothes and that there is some practicality in short hair and casual clothes, especially if she’s particularly active.

When my granddaughter was a little older than Shiloh (around four and five), she spent a lot of time on my farm - playing outside with her young uncles and around the animals - and I bought her “practical” stuff to wear, like rubber boots and overalls (plus she wore some hand-me-downs from her uncle who is only 3 1/2 years older than her but, at that time, not much bigger physically). Being the “princess” she was (still is), one day she told me, “Grandma, you’re dressing me like a farmer. I want to be a princess.” So, I bought her a couple of frilly dresses at Goodwill and she ended up climbing trees and playing swords in dresses. :slight_smile:

Really, kids who are born to celebrities and politicians should just be left the fuck alone.

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I’d suggest extending this to kids in general.

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Agreed.

But kids whose parents choose to be in the spotlight especially shouldn’t have to suffer or become media targets because of their parents’ choices.

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I’ll bet he’s even important enough to try and ride the Metro without paying!

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ivan, for the most part I think you are off base, but you really hit it on the nose here.

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The blurb I read about Shiloh had a quote from her mom saying that she’s got a serious case of hero worship and just wants to be like her big brothers. It stuck in my mind - and bubbled up with I saw this thread - because all I could think was, “Awww.” :slight_smile: There’s a pair of little kids next door to me - a young boy and a much younger girl - and she follows her brother around, just wants to do whatever he’s doing. I’m sure this is much the same thing.

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This is what I figured. She’s a little girl in a house full of little boys. Of COURSE she wants hair like them and clothes like them; with the long hair and dresses, she was too different.

All this talk of sexual orientation and gender identity and whatever else is nonsense. She’s THREE.

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Am I the only person who assumes that whatever image we see of a celebrity child is completely managed? I assume Jolie and Pitt brought in their image consultants and publicists to create a fantasy version of what their kid’s life is like based on focus groups. The kid is being described as a tomboy because it is in the interests of the parents’ career to be seen as such. The probably keep her in some kind of cryogenic sleep chamber and take her out three times a day for experimental injections of cuteness enhancers.

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Agreed 100%. My mother is obsessed with celebrities and it makes me sick.

Dress the way she wants? She’s three. She wears what her parents buy her.

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Fuck! I’ve got two people agreeing with one of my posts in this thread. I feel like I’ve logged on to The Twilight Zone version of the Dope! :smiley:

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You should post sensibly more often!

xD

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Where’s the fun in that? :wink:

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It’s not the first time the media has ragged on the Jolie-Pitt girls.

It’s almost as if they have something against them.

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Parents can buy whatever they want, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the kid will want to wear it. My mother bought me plenty of frilly dresses when I was Shiloh’s age, and I still preferred wearing my older brothers’ hand-me-down t-shirts and pants.

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Tabloids and paparazzi suck. IMO, so do those who buy the crap they sell (else they wouldn’t be selling it). Those who prey on the children of “celebrities” are really disgusting. And finally, “celebrity” parents who ALLOW/ENCOURAGE this sort of exposure and exploitation of their kids are the worst.

I have long suspected that Jolie and Pitt are among those celebs. who cultivate a symbiotic relationship with the tabloids (actually quite a common thing in “Hollywood” to have a publicist and “close friends” who leak news to the tabloids/press to keep your face on the cover).

I could be wrong that “Bradjolina” fall into this category, but ever notice how some celebs. are ALWAYS in the tabloids and some hardly EVER are, regardless of their level of overall popularity or current activity? Not a coincidence.

And how with some, half the world knows their kids on sight, due to having seen them on the cover of tabloids so often?

Others, like Johnny Depp or Jodi Foster hardly ever make the tabloids and are very protective of their children being photographed. They are definately NOT paparazzi/tabloid friendly and somehow manage to avoid the degree of “invasive” coverage poor Brad and Angie and their kids (and Jenn and whomever or Tom and Katie and their kid) are “plagued” by. :rolleyes:

I could be way off base, but there it is. Long thought it.

At any rate, as a non-celeb. parent, I can’t imagine allowing my kids’ photos to be put out there far and wide. To my mind, that’s not only an invasion but a potentially very dangerous situation.

And of course, this little girl is A-OK. Even IF (as some have suggested…not here, but this story was actually covered by ABC news or some such outlet, where I first came across it) her parents are dressing her/grooming her like a boy and it is not her choice. So what? She’s 3. ALL parents dress/groom their kids until they get old enough to develop their own preferences. Even IF that is the case (which I doubt…3 is old enough to have some pretty strong opinions, ime) not going to “turn her into” a lesbian or a boy. :smack:

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I can’t even remember being three. I’ve been around a lot of little tots her age and I’m confident that she isn’t picking out her own clothes.

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You have no idea of what you speak. Three year olds are fucking stubborn, irrational and LOUD. They will wear rubber boots in July. They will demand the tutu over the overalls. They see no problem at all wearing their holster and gun to church.
When my son was three, he was absolutely righteously outraged that his twin sister got to wear pretty hair clips, barretts and sundry in her hair while he couldn’t. So I stuck a velcro bow in his Caesar and got on with my life.

His dad was furious when he found out I took him to the store like that, though.

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That is the cutest thing I’ve heard today. I’m just imagining this little boy so proud of his pretty hair bow, stomping through the store like little 3 year old boys do. Aww :slight_smile:

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Yeah, well, when my sister was three she wore whatever my mom dressed her in. The clothes that Brad’s kid is wearing? That clothing was bought for her by her parents. This three-year old is not making a statement or giving a finger to the status quo. If anyone is, it’s her parents (and I’m not saying that they are).