Touchy Topic Tuesday: Shiloh Jolie Pitt, Suri Cruise, my son, and gender roles.

Touchy Topic Tuesday:

Shiloh Jolie Pitt, Suri Cruies, My Son, and Gender Roles.

When my son was just 17 months old, he asked for a kitchen for Christmas- complete with food and a phone to talk on while he whipped us all up delicious things to pretend to eat.

He was also known to carry a doll around and tell random strangers that he wanted to marry Elmo.

Once, while Lilly- then 2 years old- played dress up, he slipped on her Tinkerbell wings and flew around the room. This, coupled with the kitchen, the dolls, the headbands he wore in his hair and his constant requests for me to paint his finger nails, I had to wonder.

My thought process remained brief and unfinished for the time being when my son flew up to me, and said "Mom! Look! I a bug!" He later told his dad that he was an airplane.

While Mahone still occasionally says that he wants to marry Elmo, or his best friend Connor, insists that he get to use the pink plate at dinner, and sometimes still dresses up like Tinkerbell and asks for glitter, I have decided not to be worried.

The child is only 3 years old. His dad cooks, carries around a baby, and I think that all he knows about getting married is that you marry a person you love. He loves Elmo. And he loves his best friend Connor. In fact, he says, just as often, that he's going to marry Lilly or Scarlet, or even myself. So he certainly hasn't attached it only to boys.

Now, I have to make it clear that I am not a celebrity stalker. I don't care who left who or who is too thin. I don't care who is doing drugs, or who has gone broke. As far as I am concerned, people like this don't really exist. They only live on my television and on the big screen, and only normal, sane, and otherwise unassuming people live on the planet known as Earth.

However, I have a weak spot for kids, and when I saw this article I totally identified.








So Shiloh is a tomboy.



I grew up with 5 uncles. On a regular basis, I caught lizards and snakes, pitched tents, wore board shorts to swim, pretended I was Indiana Jones while digging in a pile of dirt to find crystals one of my uncles had hidden. A common activity was for my uncles to make authentic looking treasure maps for me, and bury treasure.



I also pretended to have a penis, and tried, more than once, to make out with my life sized cricket doll when I was 6. (Okay- not my proudest moment, and a rather embarrassing confession that I haven't even told my husband until now...but hey, all is fair in love and blog land.)



Oh, and for the record, I had a short hair style, just like Shiloh. My mom was supportive. And I was a little girl. But I'm all grown up, heterosexual, in fact, I'm really kind of girly, and though I honestly wouldn't miss an opportunity to make out with Kira Knightly, I really don't exhibit any bisexual or homosexual tendencies.


And the reality of it is, if she DOES grow up to be bisexual, or gay, or heterosexual, whose business is it anyway? Limelight or not, Shiloh is going to grow up and she's not a puppet. She'll make her own choices.

What really gets to me is that no one can mention Shiloh- boy clothes or not- without sizing her up next to Suri Cruise.


Just because Suri is miss priss with a two million dollar wardrobe doesn't really mean that Shiloh should be that way. The Jolie-Pitt kids wear hand me downs...just like any NORMAL kid in the U.S. who doesn't have famous parents.




For the record, I don't even care about her heels. I, for one, think they are adorable, and if they didn't cost an arm and a leg, I'd probably buy some for Lilly to wear to church. SO CUTE!!!!

What bothers me about this princess is that her clothes look a little grown up. Like miniature reproductions of something a can-can dancer, a lawyer or a French call girl would wear... it kind of reminds me of Claudia from "Interview With The Vampire"- a woman trapped in a child's body.

In the meantime, my son has graduated to wearing an Indiana Jones hat, a Superman Cape, and throwing worms at his sisters.

Personally, that sounds like 'all boy' to me.

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So, what do you think????

Is Shiloh gay?

Is Angelina forcing her bisexuality onto her daughter, choosing a 'favorite' and living vicariously?

What about Suri? Should she loose the heels?

What about your children? Do you encourage gender roles?

Let us know!!!!

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**All photos (except the ones of my child) are courtesy of Google.com