Breaking! (Er, Not): Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Wants to Be… a Boy!
In case you haven’t seen this headline on every blog imaginable since Angie’s Vanity Fair piece hit the web, Salon has a nice little item about why we care. Yeah, we’re all obsessed with Angelina (and that kid does have some amazingly pouty lips). But why, of all the stupid celebrity crap we have to obsess about—and, in Angie’s case, the quite varied commentary we have to choose from, from marriage to (gasp!) Brad’s beard—do we choose to focus on this particular item of information? Here’s how Broadsheet explains it:
Could it be that the notion of a child so steadfast in her refusal to conform to traditional gender roles, so very young, is such a goddamn novelty? And that a parent so comfortable and casual with it is even rarer? Because whoever the grown-up Shiloh Jolie-Pitt may turn out to be, the idea that we can’t all just put on a pretty dress and be as natively feminine as our culture would like us to be is still challenging to a lot of people.
-jessica
