Twitter Users Shame Charlize Theron for Letting Her Son Wear an Elsa Costume

Charlize Theron holding her son Jackson. (Photo: Getty Images)

Charlize Theron most likely doesn’t care what you think of her, her children, or her parenting. Nevertheless, a few opinionated individuals decided to shame her child-rearing via Twitter, and their input is pretty disgusting.

What brought on such hate? This week, a photo surfaced of the actress and her son Jackson wearing a dress and a hat with a long blonde braid attached to it, one that looks a lot like Target’s Frozen Elsa hat.

Theron was shamed by some Twitter users for allowing her son to wear an Elsa hat that comes with a braid attached and a dress. (Photo: Fameflynet)

Some Twitter users were unhappy seeing a little boy dressed in what some consider little girl attire, and expressed their discomfort and concern with aggressive tweets shaming the award-winning actress.

We think it’s pretty ridiculous that people just assumed that Theron forced Jackson to dress that way, when, in fact, he more than likely chose the outfit himself. The only thing Theron is guilty of is being an amazing and accepting parent by letting him express himself through his style, or simply going outside in a silly outfit. He’s four — let him have his fun!

We admire Theron — who adopted Jackson from South Africa in 2012, and a baby girl named August from the U.S. last summer — for being open and giving her children freedom.

Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., author of The Gender Creative Child and director of mental health at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center, agrees. “As a psychologist who spends much of her day with children who are teaching us about gender in all its shades and hues, I applaud Charlize Theron for being a parent who listens to her child and follows his lead, letting him be the boy he wants to be the way he wants to do it, and that would be dressing up as Elsa in a princess costume,” Ehrensaft tells Yahoo Style.

She adds: “We now know the disturbing results when parents take over and try to police their child’s gender and shame them for the creative ways they want to express it. That child is at risk for anxiety, depression, or even worse,” she warned. “When we listen to a little boy and celebrate his desire to wear a princess costume, we avoid that risk, and instead have a happy, thriving child. Who wouldn’t want that for their child?”

Whatever the reason behind Jackson’s clothing choices, it’s truthfully nobody’s business, but if haters insist on getting to the bottom of this, well, we couldn’t have said it better than Ehrensaft: “For those who don’t understand how this works, perhaps Charlize Theron would be willing to invite you over so you could see.”

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