Celine Dion's SON looks like a girl!

[SplshMtn99]

Finding someone named Rene or Emile (or Emil) is extremely common around here. I have several within my own family.

Ditto. And in my family too. Its all us French Canadians from Woonsocket, RI area. Also pronounced as Rennie.

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

Honestly I don't care about her son's hair. Unless her helping him take care of it in anyway prevents her from singing. Then I'm all for it.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

def. looks like a girl

 

[suzimar57]

oy - would someone please cut that kid's hair already!!!!

 

[bumbershoot]

If you are not then the identity crisis concerning everything gender wise can become nothing but confusion.

My brother had long hair until he was 3. Seems the boys in my family have GORGEOUS hair as it grows, the little stinkers. He was totally happy with it, and then he went into some sort of preschool, and the barrage of nastiness from other children caused him to ask to have it cut, in tears, utterly saddened.

He wasn't confused about his sex, his boyness. Not at all. He was confused about the reaction by other people to his hair. Which is just hair.


To me this sort of "confusion" is like people who won't hyphenate a last name, or won't take a new last name with a second marriage (or go back to a maiden name post-divorce) b/c they are worried about confusion in school about the kids' last names. Once I was 9 I had a different last name than my mom, and I was never confused. And I found it pathetic that my teachers who KNEW ME and knew my mom (my elementary school was tiny, one room per grade, you moved up the row of rooms as you got older, you knew who your teacher in 6th grade was going to be from 1st grade) continued to get confused.

harumph.

 

[bumbershoot]

...and have a girlish name. They KNEW that people would think it was a girl.

This is bringing up all sorts of stuff for me!

My brother's (different brother than just talked about, this is my full brother 2 years younger instead of 13 years younger) given name was Robin.

Which is a boy's name.

As are Leslie, Stacey, Tracey...augh usually I have a HUGE list of names that were boy's names until some girl's parent took it over...Madison...ugh I can't think of my list!

Anyway, there are TONS of names that were taken over by girls, or rather their parents, causing people to think that a boy has a girl's name.

As someone mentioned, in the area where they are from, Rene is a boy, and Renee is a girl. Just b/c we here in non-French-speaking areas can't see the different in spelling, doesn't mean it's truly a girl's name!

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

My daughter is in elementary school and goes to public school, the kids can wear their hair however they please a few have long hair and many of the boys have an earring. My godson had hair down to his mid back by kindergarten and kept it long when he could up until he was 13. He had cancer so each relapse it would fall out and once it started to grow in he never wanted it cut. It fell out the first time when he was 2 and after that he never wanted it cut, he would get it shaped and trimmed but never cut-he also had his ear pierced-two in one ear. There was SO much more to worry about than long hair and earrings-once you have a kid with cancer it puts everything else into perspective!

Wow-excellent point!! I hope your godson is ok now and the cancer is completely gone. I have a son with a disability and when you have a child that you worry about in that way-well-it just changes everything and you can't explain what it's like to others. Your perspective is just so different after going through something like that. I wouldn't care if my son grew his hair to his rear-I just want him healthy and happy.

Celine's son is cute-maybe he wants his hair long. Kids, even at age 6 have their own definite ideas about how they want to look. Maybe he'll be embarrassed about it when he grows up-I know I am over my pictures of me as a kid!! Eek!

 

[bumbershoot]

You guys are REALLY saying you have looked at his face, looked at the broadness of his cheeks and the utter boyness of his face, and really see a girl's face?

Weird.

Reminds me of my MIL. And random people we met at places like WW meetings. When DS's hair was long (golden-red curls, just amazing hair) people constantly said he looked like a girl. Then we accidentally had it cut (never EVER let a hair-cutting person trim the front of your boy's hair, when she has JUST said she doesn't believe in long hair for boys, just do NOT do it, grab him OUT of that chair before she ruins his hair!!!) and the day after people said he looked like a girl would suddenly say he looked like a boy.

Well, to me, looking like a girl or boy means more than just long vs short hair. It means a face.

And Rene's face is all boy. (as is my boy's)

Why is his hair curled?

My hair does that naturally when long. Doesn't mean it's curled.

 

[aprilgail2]

This is bringing up all sorts of stuff for me!

My brother's (different brother than just talked about, this is my full brother 2 years younger instead of 13 years younger) given name was Robin.

Which is a boy's name.

The only male I know named Robin is Robin Gibb (and he even sounds like a female when he sings!)- I do know a bunch of female robins though, one of my first friends in school back in the 60's was a girl named Robin so its been a girls name for a long time around here.

 

[bumbershoot]

The only male I know named Robin is Robin Gibb (and he even sounds like a female when he sings!)- I do know a bunch of female robins though, one of my first friends in school back in the 60's was a girl named Robin so its been a girls name for a long time around here.

Robin Hood...

Robin Williams

 

[bumbershoot]

Must be different all over. Around here, everyone has it short- many very short. As I said, our school has a rule that boy's hair must be kept short and tidy at all times.

It astonishes me that a school is allowed to dictate such things.

What do they say about girls? Must they all have sex and gender appropriate long hair?

Gack at that school!

People do tend to look at hair first when they are "deciding" the gender of a child they've just met. My DD has pierced ears and can be wearing a princess T-shirt, pink sandals and a SKIRT and you would not BELIEVE how many people think she's a boy.

She won't say anything but her big brother usually issues a brutal corrective.

But I think her "Tinkerbelle" hair is adorable and easy to take care of...and usually she likes it to - so it is staying. I don't think anyone here would say that I have to force her to grow it out....and don't see the difference between her situation and Dion's son.

Exactly! My friend has a girl, and gave her an Irish BOY's name, and always kept her hair short (matching mommy and me cuts, actually). And people would think she was a boy (especially Irish people), but my friend never thought to change her girl's hair, she just thought the people had issues for thinking her little pixie-faced girl was a boy!

 

[bethbuchall]

It astonishes me that a school is allowed to dictate such things.

What do they say about girls? Must they all have sex and gender appropriate long hair?

Gack at that school!

Are there really public schools that can dictate hair length? I am very non-confrontational, but I would be before the Board of Ed on that one.

 

[bookgirl]

Okay, he's french people. Rene is a very common boys name. And long hair is common on boys. It's a gray shirt what's girly about gray.

Geeze just because middle america is freaked out about the role of boys and the paralyzing fear that any thing from clothing colors to breathing the same air as non heterosexual will warp them, does not mean the rest of the world is.

Personally I don't like long hair on boys, because the whole shaggy in the eyes thing annoys me, but his looks nice, his parents don't have a problem with it, and making assumptions about trans gender tendencies is just tacky.

My nephews both have shaggy hair (I'm no longer allowed to get their hair cuts because I got it cut to thier hair lines last year for baseball) but I'll save the fight for brushing thier teeth. Let them have it shaggy, hair is a non fight.

 

[Briarmom]

My brother's (different brother than just talked about, this is my full brother 2 years younger instead of 13 years younger) given name was Robin.

Which is a boy's name.

As are Leslie, Stacey, Tracey...augh usually I have a HUGE list of names that were boy's names until some girl's parent took it over...Madison...ugh I can't think of my list!

Anyway, there are TONS of names that were taken over by girls, or rather their parents, causing people to think that a boy has a girl's name.

Let me help with your list.

McKenzie
Logan
Ashley
Mason
Taylor
Aiden
Jordan
Kyle
Tegan
Reese
Morgan
Hayden
Riley
Carson
Ashton
Sidney
Hunter
Lindsay
Bailey
Cameron
Casey

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

I am really amazed that people are concerned about HAIR. It's HAIR!

 

[MomofKatie]

The only male I know named Robin is Robin Gibb (and he even sounds like a female when he sings!)- I do know a bunch of female robins though, one of my first friends in school back in the 60's was a girl named Robin so its been a girls name for a long time around here.

It's a pretty common name for males in the UK.

 

[Aidensmom]

Let me help with your list.

McKenzie
Logan
Ashley
Mason
Taylor
Aiden
Jordan
Kyle
Tegan
Reese
Morgan
Hayden
Riley
Carson
Ashton
Sidney
Hunter
Lindsay
Bailey
Cameron
Casey

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

I am really amazed that people are concerned about HAIR. It's HAIR!

There are GIRLS named Aiden? OK, I was a little peeved when I found out the "unique" name I thought I picked for my son was popular, but now it is a girls name too?

 

[Briarmom]

There are GIRLS named Aiden? OK, I was a little peeved when I found out the "unique" name I thought I picked for my son was popular, but now it is a girls name too?

Yes. Unfortunately there are. It is getting ridiculous, really. No boys' names are safe from being used on girls. And no, adding a 'y' where every vowel goes does not make it 'fymynynne'
I was sitting at the Pediatric Dentist's office, and the hygienist came out and said 'Logan and Mason' and two little girls popped up.

 

[aprilgail2]

Wow-excellent point!! I hope your godson is ok now and the cancer is completely gone. I have a son with a disability and when you have a child that you worry about in that way-well-it just changes everything and you can't explain what it's like to others. Your perspective is just so different after going through something like that. I wouldn't care if my son grew his hair to his rear-I just want him healthy and happy.

:

No he passed away at 14 after a 12 year battle with cancer-Leukemia and then brain tumors- which I thinks makes me even more laid back with my daughter. I pick very few things to make a big deal about with her and hair length or color would not be one of them, important things, saftey things,education,-not hair... I take her out of school for vacations to enjoy the time we have together and we live more in the now just in case the "later" doesn't happen. You never know what the future holds. We would take my godson out every year to go on vacations together and let me tell you, I cherish those memories with him and am SO glad I will never have to say "gee I wish we would have....."- we did it then, didn't put it off because you never know when you have a sick child if there will ever be a tomorrow.... I would give the world to be able to see my godson again, hair, no hair, whatever-its just hair, its not a big deal you can change the length, color whatever anytime you want, not worth fighting about.

 

[basas]

It astonishes me that a school is allowed to dictate such things.

What do they say about girls? Must they all have sex and gender appropriate long hair?

Gack at that school!

Are there really public schools that can dictate hair length? I am very non-confrontational, but I would be before the Board of Ed on that one.

It’s a private school and simply part of the dress code. Don’t like it, don’t go there. I’m glad for the rules.

 

[shortbun]

Well, my son had middle of the back length hair until a month ago. He'll be 12 in July and is letting it grow again. Half his soccer team has really long hair. My nephew has two friends who let it grow that long and then donate to locks of love, then repeat. Really long hair on boys is common around here just as crew cuts are in certain families. We avoid gender stereotyping as much as we can. Btw, the girls in my son's class were all bereft when he got his cut. He has gorgeous thick hair. My neice was calling him, "Fabio." lol!
I like it long but he's an athlete and it was getting too hot. My sister's name is Rene. My parents spelled it wrong. She got a draft notice. Apparently the U.S. govt. is hip to Rene being a man's name. ( I know it's not called a 'draft' notice anymore but I can't think of the correct term)