Posted on 12/28/2014 12:18:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Hollywood recently unveiled yet another of many feature films for the holiday season, this one the ambitious World War II era character study, Unbroken. It was directed by Angelina Jolie, and while I haven’t seen it yet, the topic looks fascinating. When it came time for the red carpet activities, though, Jolie’s family had to step in for her and do a quick turn for the cameras. Here’s one photo from the event, featuring husband Brad Pitt and several of their children.
That’s a handsome group of fellows, isn’t it? But if you look a bit closer there’s a bit of a mystery here. The blond haired child in the center isn’t actually a boy at all. It’s Jolie’s eight year old daughter by birth, Shiloh. Susan Goldberg at PJ Media caught this story recently, in which we discover that Shiloh “identifies as a male” and chooses to go by the name John. This tale was oh so politically correctly highlighted by Refinery 29.
Angelina Jolie’s entire family recently stepped out on the red carpet to support their mother’s new movie, Unbroken. The couple’s oldest biological child, who was assigned female at birth, joined brothers Maddox and Pax wearing sharp suits and short haircuts.
Pitt and Jolie have been fairly open over the years about Shiloh’s interest in all things considered masculine. In an interview with Oprah in 2008, Brad Pitt discussed how Shiloh wanted to be called John.
The eight-year-old’s family fully supports their decision to self-identify — from an affinity for suits and ties to shorter hair to the name change.
While you pick your jaws up off the floor, I’ll offer up this example of the great lengths the reporter went to in order to ensure that nobody’s gender sensibilities were offended.
Editor’s Note: We have followed the Advocate’s lead, and referred to John Jolie-Pitt as “they” as a gender-neutral pronoun to respect John’s decision, whatever gender they may end up being.
While I generally try to avoid all things Hollywood in my own writing, this story has to make one wonder precisely how things went so far off track as to come to this turn of events. Goldberg has a theory:
Probably about as dumb as the Advocate grasping at straws via the stale tale of Shiloh Pitt, who apparently has been dressed in boyswear and given boyishly short haircuts by her parents since she was a toddler. Four years later, why wouldn’t an 8-year-old girl think she ought to be called “John”? If anything she’s aiming for a more defined gender identity than her parents have yet to give her, either through her name, her hair, or her clothing, let alone the gender-neutral pronouns being used to identify her in the media.
What is to become of this little girl in the future? And given the massive media attention paid to her parents and all things related to them, how can a new generation of children – most of whom have smart phones and tablets by the age of 8 these days – avoid thinking that there is something normal about this?
Young girls who grow up in a household with brothers can frequently take on tomboy characteristics. I observed that myself while growing up, visiting two male cousins at my Uncle’s farm. Their younger sister would traipse along with us (generally to our annoyance) and was frequently dressed in jeans and tee shirts since we were out playing on the farm. But she kept her birth name, and after puberty struck she was quickly wearing dresses and “girly” clothes, obsessing over boys and doing all the things that teenage girls do. There’s really nothing unusual about that at all.
But when media exposure changes the child’s perspective from wanting to go search for turtles and snakes with her brother to a reevaluation of her gender and switching to a masculine name, the car of that family is heading for the ditch. An eight year old knows nothing of sexuality and “gender identification” and, frankly, doesn’t need to know anything about it. She needs to have time to be a kid and do all the silly, fun things that kids do without worrying about such adult notions.
Shiloh may still turn around in a few years and become “Shiloh” again. But in the meantime, children around the world are looking at her and thinking, “I wonder if that’s who I am too?” This is not a solution. It’s a problem.
And it didn't even make the front page of CNN. Imagine that:)
He’ll make the front page of CNN when he invents cold fusion.
Shiloh probably asked for Jon, and mom shot her down with John.
Some real evil going on here. Prayers that the dark gets smothered.
>>It looks like she has surgically removed his spine and his doo-dads as well.<<
She’s keeping the spine, but planning to graft the doo-dads onto Shiloh?
my guess is that she will never find acceptance of her sex but with family members all you can do is love them and hope for the best. she is still a good and moral person but in this area something is not quite right.
I don't know if an 8 YO would know or care about the different spellings, but *something* set off AJ re: Shiloh. Any guess here?
Some real evil going on here. Prayers that the dark gets smothered.
Turned Shiloh into her Dad, looks like. Now she can really stick it to him. Oy.
That’s an astonishing likeness.
I understand where you are coming from, and I think you have every right to approach it that way.
When someone starts comparing me to Hitler as easily as that guy did, I think the spitting pales in comparison.
Would I have done it? No. Do I think it would have been better if he hadn’t done it? Absolutely.
I’m not here to defend Leftists, but by the same token, if they had pulled this on someone on the right, I would defend their response too.
This was a disgusting set-up. I will say that Pitt probably should have known what type of a program it was up front. If he accepted the invitation he should have stayed or left, sans the spitting.
It wasn’t well thought out. And I will say that being who he is, he felt entitled to do whatever he wanted to do. I don’t agree with that.
That little girl has always strongly resembled Jon Voight, even from birth. That has to be the root of mommy dearest’s motivations for this evil.
I identified as a boy, too, at that age. They got to do all the cool stuff on the ranch while I had to stay home with the gals. Once hormones kick in, I’m sure she’ll be fine.
Vey.
I think Shiloh’s probably the only normal one in the family.
Hope Grampa Jon scoops her up ASAP.
The culture encourages parents to make their children into weirdlings. Most parents can’t be bothered, but then there are the outliers ...
Oh. My. Gosh. Wow. Angelina didn’t invite her father, Jon Voight to her recent wedding, then allows her 8 year old daughter (who looks exactly like Jon Voight) to be referred to as a male named “John”.
Disgusting. And filthy. And vile.
God protect that poor little girl.
This from the Hotair website:
“This poor little girl has a mother who is both moderately crazy and seriously gorgeous. At eight years old, she has figured out a way in which she will never have to be compared to Mom and will never come up short in the are-you-going-to-grow-up-as-pretty-as-your-Mama? department.
Chastity Bono had a similar mother.
Or else she’s just a tomboy like many of us were and her parents are idiots who yearn to inhabit the culturally significant center of the universe.
Either scenario is possible.”
I’ve been wondering when the trans-species kids are going to show up.
Dinosaurs, cats...
Wait til the PTB find out you are a hater for not allowing your little Dinos to “be who they really are”.
Amen.
All those lovely photo-ops, the family vacations, the glamour... Shiloh is the "tell" that the home life away from the cameras is something else entirely.
The rest, I'd bet mom-- who is no stranger to getting off on negative attention--put into her head. It doesn't take much to poison a young child's mind. Especially one who, probably, desperately seeks the mother's attention and approval.
Really sad.
That’s why Shiloh needs to go Grampa for a while. Before the Pitts ruin her for life.
It’s a public message board. You’re free to criticize the choice that this woman and many others before her have made. I’m free to defend it.
Before diagnosis, I couldn’t understand making that choice as a preventive measure, either, even though many people in my family fought cancer. Now, as a survivor myself, I see why it’s a smart choice to make. That doesn’t mean it’s right for everyone. It just means that she is not “weird” or “stupid” for making that very difficult choice.
The choice she made is NOT the same as someone having so-called “gender reassignment” surgery.
Next, Tom will have me up on charges for not allowing him to express his real identity as J.P. Morgan.
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