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"  One comment I&amp;#039;ve seen online frequently in the wake of Kate Winslet&amp;#039;s recent pregnancy announcement \u2014 the father being her third husband, Ned Rocknroll \u2013 is the insistence that we&amp;#039;d be judging Winslet on having children from multiple marriages if she were a non-famous women of color or a woman at a socioeconomic disadvantage. Which is fair, and probably accurate, but the truth is that no woman should face judgment for making independent decisions about her life and how she chooses to make a family \u2014 Winslet included. I guess those commenters finally got what they were waiting for: one Judith Woods of The Telegraph has unleashed an extremely catty slut-shaming extravaganza about Winslet&amp;#039;s relationship history, maligning her for having a daughter (Mia, 12) with Jim Threapleton, then a son (Joe, 9) with ex-husband Sam Mendes, and now getting pregnant by Rocknroll.  Writes Woods: &amp;quot;What her daughter, in particular, makes of Winslet&amp;#039;s revolving-door relationships can only be guessed at. But to the outside world, Kate, it just looks tacky. Three children by three different fathers doesn&amp;#039;t look good on anyone.&amp;quot;  What&amp;#039;s next, dude? Are you going to start ranting about her &amp;quot;dirtypillows?&amp;quot; You know what else &amp;quot;doesn&amp;#039;t look good,&amp;quot; by which we mean &amp;quot;who the f*ck cares?&amp;quot; Tom Cruise, Billy Bob Thornton, Geraldo Rivera, Larry King, Martin Scorsese, Kenny Rogers, and countless other celebrity men who have multiple marriages behind them. But God forbid a female actress fall in love with more than one man in her life and have children with them, says Woods, because they&amp;#039;re supposed to be CLASSY, not one of those uneducated baby-daddy-having skanks. She continues that life isn&amp;#039;t like the movies, because Kate Winslet surely has no idea that&amp;#039;s the case: &amp;quot;...The director shouts &amp;quot;Cut!&amp;quot; and they return to real life, where instead of the swell of violins there are children to be bathed and put to bed and told that no, sweetheart, Daddy&amp;#039;s not here because it&amp;#039;s not his night. Has bitter experience (your offspring&amp;#039;s, if not yours) taught you nothing? It might be [expected] if you had joined the cast of the now-defunct Shameless, but you are an A-lister, a home-grown star in the Hollywood firmament we should be proud of, not apologetic about. Falling in love and marrying and having a baby and breaking up and then doing it again (and possibly again?) stretches credulity, undermines your credibility, and the fallout for the little human beings you&amp;#039;ve brought into the world is too awful to contemplate.&amp;quot;  Oh, okay. So not only is she supposed to apologize to her daughter, which is something that&amp;#039;s between her and her daughter \u2014 and something that Woods knows nothing about, incidentally \u2014 but she&amp;#039;s supposed to apologize to us, The People, for having the audacity to make her own personal decisions. Awesome! (Also: Kate Winslet&amp;#039;s daughter is old enough to read the Internet, and I can guarantee you that you have hurt the feelings of this &amp;quot;little human being&amp;quot; you care about so much by calling her mom a regulation slag.)  As shows like Glee, Modern Family and the political movement on issues like gay marriage have shown, we&amp;#039;ve just come around to begin embracing alternative families, which is totally great, but retrogressive sh*t like this just sets us back (and depresses me). I wonder if she hates gay parents as well, or anyone who falls outside the Norman Rockwell-esque family unit, or if this only applies to heterosexual women that she &amp;quot;disapproves of.&amp;quot; Speaking of personal decisions that undermine professional credibility, how about Leonardo DiCaprio, Serious Actor, morphing into a skeevy chaser of multiple 20-something models? Or Benicio del Toro, Serious Actor, knocking up former reality star Kimberly Stewart out of what I&amp;#039;m certain Judith Woods would refer to as &amp;quot;wedlock&amp;quot;? (Also guilty of similar &amp;quot;transgressions:&amp;quot; Jeremy Renner, Ryan Philippe, Colin Farrell, Hugh Grant and countless others.) But, oh, right... they&amp;#039;re actors first. UGHH. OK, gotta go rub an ice cube on my neck to cool down the rage. Follow Anna on Twitter. Image via Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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