I love Rosie O'Donnell. I am not ashamed to say it. I think she is fabulous, strong, a role model for all people.
And I am sick to death of the media jumping at every chance to criticise her instead of taking a moment to think and understand.
There is controversy at the moment about Rosie posting a photo of her 4 year old daughter, Vivi, dressed as a soldier with an ammunition belt. For a start, Rosie has always publicly talked about how she encourages her children to be kids, to explore different ideas, and their imagination. She has explained that Vivi chose the costume from buycostumes.com and that really isn't surprising considering she has two older brothers who no doubt play soldiers and guns and cowboys and robbers around the house. But more poignantly, when did it become politically incorrect to allow your kids to play war (which I am sure most of us did at age four), especially when the politicians who are running our countries are sending us to war?
And more to the point, as Rosie has said, why is a photo of her little girl in a costume on her blog international news (yep, it reached the Sydney Morning Herald this morning) when the over 3000 American lives lost in Iraq so far and the estimated 1 million Iraqi civilians who have died is not? Or we can even expand on this. Why is this little girl who is innocently dressing as a soldier and exploring her imagination news when there are REAL 4 yr olds and little kids in other countries who are REALLY being trained to be soldiers, with REAL guns and REAL ammunition and who have to kill REAL people. Where are these kids in the news? Where are their photos? Where is the outrage?
Rosie showed a powerful photo of her little girl. Eyes full of innocence. Ammunition belt slung over her shoulder. A powerful contrast that is all too real for thousands of children worldwide who really are made to fight. Or a just a photo of childhood innocence that is all too often stripped from kids by the media that has blown this out of proportion.
Peace out.
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