Brangelina

No Kidding: Jennifer Aniston, We Hardly Know You

Social Commentary post by Brittany Shoot on February 2, 2011 - 1:06pm; tagged Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Brangelina, celebrity pregnancy, childfree, Jennifer Aniston, No Kidding.

Is there any famous childless woman whose fertility is as scrutinized as Jennifer Aniston's? In the past five years, since she and Brad Pitt split up so he could go build a global village with Angelina Jolie (a topic worth an entire blog series of its own if you ask me!), how many times do you think Jen has had to defend her womb, her supposed selfishness, what is perhaps simply her prerogative to opt out of biological motherhood? At what point do you think she will quit demurely smiling and insisting that she wants to have children?

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Raising Trouble: In Defense of Brangelina

Social Commentary post by Liza Featherstone on April 20, 2010 - 1:41pm; tagged Brangelina, gender roles, kids, Raising Trouble, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, tomboys.

"Raising Trouble" has been silent for too long on the absurd hubbub surrounding Brangelina "dressing Shiloh as a boy."

Shiloh and brother Pax eat ice cream while walking down the street. Shiloh is wearing a brown sweatshirt with a truck on it. A tabloid-style bubble points to the truck and says Shiloh's New Wheels