Reese Witherspoon: Bully My Kids, Please!
Reese Witherspoon says that she hopes that her kids get teased and bullied.
Speaking about her new film, Penelope, about a girl named Penelope, who ends up with a pig
Reese Witherspoon says that she hopes that her kids get teased and bullied.
Speaking about her new film, Penelope, about a girl named Penelope, who ends up with a pig
Bullying is not okay. And neither is allowing children to navigate situations without help that we ourselves would not. I mean, if I walked into my office (when I had one) to have someone shove me in the shoulder or back me into a corner in the ladies’ restroom and threaten physical violence or call me names or push me down the stairs, I would file charges against them and they would be taken away in cuffs. If my boss harrassed me, I would file suit and retire. But my child is supposed to fend for herself in a comparable situation? Absolutely not.
I’m guessing that she means teased more than bullied. I think you’re right that no one who was bullied would wish it on their own kids.
I think she is more afraid that her kids will be given everything because of who they are (her kids) and that she just wants them to be “normal”
Of course, who knows? It’s hard to say what was missing from that interview – things said that weren’t published.
rrr – a) because she doesn’t say that she got bullied, in a discussion about bullying. Her great example of peer-based childhood trauma is not making the volleyball team. Not bullying. b) because no person who was actually bullied would ever wish it on their own or anyone else’s kids, full stop.
Why do you assume that she never got bullied as a kid? Pretty much all kids get bullied at one point or another and I can’t imagine why Reese Whitherspoon would have escaped it.
She didn’t say that the most distressing moment in her childhood was not making the volleyball team.