Untangling Why We Can And Can't Hate Brangelina
BECAUSE THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL
Untangling Why We Can -- And Can't -- Hate Brangelina
ARE BRAD AND ANGIE LOSING THEIR LUSTER?
Ang and Brad "Fight Like Cats And Dogs" one tab declares.
Another claims the sexpot carries on a "spiteful private war" against the former Mrs. Pitt.
And even uglier is her biographer's claim that Jolie "was recently using crystal meth."
Oh, how we do love to put our celebrities on pedestals just for the fun of dragging them down!
Even Ang's family has become fair game, specifically Zahara's hair.
In a Newsweek article, journalist Alison Samuels called the little girl's hair "bad," as well as “wild and unstyled, uncombed and dry."
I confess that not long ago, I too, was a grown woman hatin' on a sweet little girl's hair. It took Samuel's article for me to realize that I was really reacting, judging Zahara's hair by the standards I had accepted as my own.
Look above at the picture that accompanies the post: Zahara’s hair looks fine.
And yeah, it is wild, dry, unstyled and uncombed. So what?
If you want to see it shiny and "managable," you'll have to wait a long time because real black hair don't shine. (Only the Dominicans can make real black hair shine, but that's with the help of chemicals.)
Mostly, fake hair shines.
Look at little sister's face. She looks like a little girl who knows what she wants. And maybe she wants natural hair. Maybe she's been through the pulling and tugging and has decided it's not for her.
Or maybe it's her mom who won't be bothered by the rituals of braids, plaits, all those little barrettes, or even, God forbid, a perm.
She's beautiful just the way she is, like her mom.
Like Samuels, I also have fond memories of sitting between my mother's legs and getting my hair braided. But there is also the memory of accidentally getting my hair wet during one of my birthday parties and having to take a time out from the fun while my mother set to straightening it again.
The article also compares her to the Obama girls. But they're from a straight up and down, by- the-book domestic American family.
The Jolie-Pitts took the book, tore out the pages out, divided them up and ate them. Apples and oranges.
And I am not alone in this comparison: Latoya Peterson, guest blogging on Jezebel, said it better.
If we're hatin' on the Jolie-Pitt family, it should be because they are all beautiful, live on a French estate, enjoy endless international life and have every indulgence and advantage a family can attain. Plus they really seem to like each other.
Oh, let's just admit it: that's why we really hate them.
Is that your life? Probably not. But don’t your hair look nice?
SexyChattyCatty is a regular contributor at CrabbyGolightly.com where she writes frequently on TV, America's favorite snack food.
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