Ummmmm, No
By Glinda
Gwyneth Paltrow: Apple Makes Moses Cross-Dress!
I read that headline at People, and I thought, there goes that pesky media yet again. Misinterpreting and editing interviews with a celebrity so that it sounds like a mom is calling her barely-a-toddler son a cross-dresser! When will they ever stop?
But if the direct quote in the article is to be believed, Gwyneth Paltrow described it that way herself.
You know, there are many ways I as a mother could describe the very common situation of an older sister dressing her younger brother in girl’s clothes, but “cross-dressing” would not be one of them.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I think you’re taking this too seriously. “Cross-dress” is not a dirty word or a grave insult.
July 10th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Well to me, cross-dressing (the term) implies a deliberateness of intent that just isn’t present with a four and a two year old.
Not an insult, true, but a little of a grown-up term for young children.
Or hey, I could just be having a bad week and feel like being crotchety!
July 11th, 2008 at 3:16 am
I just love having another excuse to hate Gwyneth Paltrow.