Moms of the Internet may be trying to shame Olivia Wilde for kissing her son on the lips, but Olivia herself isn’t sweating it. She retweeted a link to an article about the controversy with an eye-roll emoji and the message, “Homies we got bigger fish to fry. FOCUS UP. #itstheendoftheworldasweknowit.”
🙄. Homies we got bigger fish to fry. FOCUS UP. #itstheendoftheworldasweknowit https://t.co/potUWZGZtw
— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) October 15, 2017
Last December trolls swarmed Hilary Duff’s Twitter feed after she posted a photo of herself kissing her then-four-year-old son, Luca, on the lips. Some people on the Internet took this perfectly harmless interaction between mother and son as an excuse to shame Hilary. Comments like “gross,” “sick,” and even “get a room” began to pop up, but Hilary shut them down with a pretty epic clap-back.
“For anyone commenting that a kiss on the lips with my 4-year-old is ‘inappropriate,’ go ahead and click a quick unfollow with your warped minds and judgment,” she tweeted.
And earlier this month something similar happened to Olivia. The actress posted a photo to Instagram of herself kissing her three-year-old son (Otis) on the lips, and the comments section was flooded with troll-y garbage.
“Kissing your kid like your husband. It’s not good for him,” one person wrote. “It’s gross,” wrote another. A few people even said Olivia will make her son sick by kissing him on the lips, which is just wrong and problematic on many levels. And get this: One user actually insulted Otis’ haircut. He’s three years old!
A post shared by Olivia Wilde (@oliviawilde) on Oct 3, 2017 at 2:43pm PDT
Instead of going on some long-winded rant about why these comments are out of line (that’s obvious, right?), let us just say this: Stop policing celebrity mothers. Olivia knows her child — and what’s best for him — better than random people on the Internet. It’s beyond messed up that a mother can’t share a genuine moment of love with her child without people contorting it into something wrong.
Taken from GLAMOUR US. Click here to read the original.
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