MrsSpringsteen
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I've been doing some reading about this whole subject, and it actually started when I started seeing all of these tabloid type articles about Shiloh Jolie Pitt and how she's looking and dressing "like a boy" and is Angelina encouraging this and oh no Shiloh is gender confused or gay or bisexual and/or a cross dresser! One article even suggested that Angelina was doing this because she was somehow jealous of the attention that Brad was paying to Shiloh US Magazine published a photo of Shiloh in a swimsuit without a top on, because apparently she prefers to wear a boy's swimsuit. The child porn issue was raised just like it was in the Miley/Perez Hilton case.
This doesn't just apply to kids of celebrities- it speaks to the whole larger issue of gender expectations and stereotypes and how kids are still raised to fit into those and how if they don't, it just makes some people very nervous for a few different reasons. You can say it's just tabloids doing what they do, but in my opinion this is way over the line and they do it because they know it's hitting some sort of hot button issue . They are also doing it to an innocent four year old child who has nothing to do with her parents being famous. That's just gross and not appropriate.
Is Angelina Jolie Raising Her Kids To Be Gender Confused? � Hollywood Life
We all know Shiloh Jolie-Pitt loves to look like a little boy; she lopped off her hair, wears ties and calls herself John. But now Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s adopted son, Maddox, is displaying girly tendencies; Angie reportedly bought the 8-year-old a manicure kit ( ) at the Rockridge Kids store in Oakland, Calif. on August 3 as a birthday present. Is this normal or is Angie raising her kids to be gender confused?
Other random comments..
"Shiloh is pushing the boundaries of a tomboy look and crossing over to cross-dresser territory," Alana Kelen, senior fashion stylist at VH1 said.
"Angelina has said she was bisexual in public—this is her bisexuality coming through...[Shiloh] is being guided into a bisexual role. Her mother is projecting this onto this particular child," a psychologist told Hollywood Life.
UsMagazine.com posted a story earlier today titled "Expert: Angelina Jolie Repressing Shiloh by Dressing Her as a Tomboy" with two different therapists saying Shiloh's boyish fashion sense could lead to her getting "picked on or ostracized by her peers, potentially leading to social problems, anxiety, and poor academic performance." And that "if Angelina is choosing her daughter's clothes...she could be repressing her daughter's true nature"
The site has since changed their mind, now it's "Experts: There's Nothing Wrong With the Way Shiloh Dresses," and that's probably more accurate.
Random comment from a reader
"She's trying to re-create her daughter in the image of herself, which is rather tragic.
Gender is not an arbitrary thing - it's really important that people develop relatively strong gender orientations or else they will face a life of depression and difficulty. #1 group of suiciders are those caught in between genders like hermaphrodites etc..
Sometimes it's difficult for physical reasons (i.e. hermaphrodite) or because of same-sex orientation which can hinder strong gender identification.
But it's shameful because it might be that Jolie is doing this to her kid on purpose as part of her whacked out social views.
She's the worst mom ever."
I have a very strong-willed four-year-old girl who tells me what she wants to wear and I let her be who she is," Angelina told the London Evening Standard. "I think people think kids should be a certain way, but I feel they should wear what they feel like wearing and they should express themselves. Shiloh cried one night and said, 'Please cut my hair off. I don't want to have long hair.' I'm not going to leave it long just because somebody thinks I should."
This doesn't just apply to kids of celebrities- it speaks to the whole larger issue of gender expectations and stereotypes and how kids are still raised to fit into those and how if they don't, it just makes some people very nervous for a few different reasons. You can say it's just tabloids doing what they do, but in my opinion this is way over the line and they do it because they know it's hitting some sort of hot button issue . They are also doing it to an innocent four year old child who has nothing to do with her parents being famous. That's just gross and not appropriate.
Is Angelina Jolie Raising Her Kids To Be Gender Confused? � Hollywood Life
We all know Shiloh Jolie-Pitt loves to look like a little boy; she lopped off her hair, wears ties and calls herself John. But now Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s adopted son, Maddox, is displaying girly tendencies; Angie reportedly bought the 8-year-old a manicure kit ( ) at the Rockridge Kids store in Oakland, Calif. on August 3 as a birthday present. Is this normal or is Angie raising her kids to be gender confused?
Other random comments..
"Shiloh is pushing the boundaries of a tomboy look and crossing over to cross-dresser territory," Alana Kelen, senior fashion stylist at VH1 said.
"Angelina has said she was bisexual in public—this is her bisexuality coming through...[Shiloh] is being guided into a bisexual role. Her mother is projecting this onto this particular child," a psychologist told Hollywood Life.
UsMagazine.com posted a story earlier today titled "Expert: Angelina Jolie Repressing Shiloh by Dressing Her as a Tomboy" with two different therapists saying Shiloh's boyish fashion sense could lead to her getting "picked on or ostracized by her peers, potentially leading to social problems, anxiety, and poor academic performance." And that "if Angelina is choosing her daughter's clothes...she could be repressing her daughter's true nature"
The site has since changed their mind, now it's "Experts: There's Nothing Wrong With the Way Shiloh Dresses," and that's probably more accurate.
Random comment from a reader
"She's trying to re-create her daughter in the image of herself, which is rather tragic.
Gender is not an arbitrary thing - it's really important that people develop relatively strong gender orientations or else they will face a life of depression and difficulty. #1 group of suiciders are those caught in between genders like hermaphrodites etc..
Sometimes it's difficult for physical reasons (i.e. hermaphrodite) or because of same-sex orientation which can hinder strong gender identification.
But it's shameful because it might be that Jolie is doing this to her kid on purpose as part of her whacked out social views.
She's the worst mom ever."
I have a very strong-willed four-year-old girl who tells me what she wants to wear and I let her be who she is," Angelina told the London Evening Standard. "I think people think kids should be a certain way, but I feel they should wear what they feel like wearing and they should express themselves. Shiloh cried one night and said, 'Please cut my hair off. I don't want to have long hair.' I'm not going to leave it long just because somebody thinks I should."