Charlize Theron slammed on Twitter for letting her son dress up like a girl
Actress Charlize Theron is coming under fire after a photo surfaced earlier this week of her and her son Jackson running errands.
The 41-year-old actress was spotted carrying Jackson to get some ice cream. Sounds pretty normal, right? But some took issue when they realized that Jackson appeared to be wearing a dress and white hat with a long, blonde ponytail attached to it.
Why did Charlize Theron have her little 5 year old boy in a dress and wig? He’s too young to know what a transgender is. She’s confusing him
— Mama Nibiru (@MadamSophie88) August 24, 2016
Is @CharlizeAfrica crazy?? What kind of parent does this to a child?? Why would you adopt this young black boy and then degrade him??
— Lesboja78 (@lesboja1978) August 24, 2016
Shame on Charlize Theron for allowing her black adopted SON to dress up in a blonde wig & a dress. Very unacceptable pic.twitter.com/TTXctDo8jo
— Marcellus X (@_Uncensorable) August 25, 2016
@ZoWilliams @thecoreyholcomb How is this legal Charlize Theron has this boy in a dress an wig #Bullshitalots pic.twitter.com/rx0RFmhWbo
— Brian Williams (@HRap_Brian) August 25, 2016
While many questioned her parenting skills, suggesting it be “illegal” for her to allow him to dress this way and that she was “degrading” him, others eventually came to her defense.
The tweets regarding Charlize Theron’s son dressing up as Elsa from frozen are disgusting, small minded and verging on homo/transphobic.
— LEON/CÉ (@LXONR) August 24, 2016
Charlize Theron’s son wanted to dress up as Elsa. Great parenting. Your kid can do what they like, its not gonna “make them gay”
— Greeney (@JamesGreeney) August 25, 2016
how exactly is it racist for charlize theron to allow her son to dress up as Elsa from Frozen? he’s a child?? i’m really curious.
— Zeba Blay (@zblay) August 25, 2016
Here’s a thought: maybe Charlize Theron’s son WANTED to wear the dress? Crazy, I know. Letting him have his own identity and all.
— ロレン The Tactician (@sixmyths) August 25, 2016
Theron has shared that like many kids, Jackson loves the film “Frozen,” and how he had a “crush” on Emily Blunt after visiting the set of “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” and seeing her blonde wig.
As one Twitter defender said, wanting to dress up as Elsa doesn’t make him “gay.”
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