You Can Be Whatever You Want To Be, But You Can’t Be That

By: American Decency Staff

Chris Hemsworth is a decent man.

He's known for being down to earth and humble. He appears to be a faithful husband and father in the midst of the fickle and treacherous subculture of Hollywood.

In case you're not aware of Hemsworth, he's the actor who plays Thor in Marvel's "Avengers" movie franchise and, most recently, the Huntsman in "The Huntsman: Winters War" – a prequel to the story of Snow White.

Last year, Vanity Fair published an interview with Hemsworth entitled, "Can Hollywood Handle Decent, Modest, Good-Humored Chris Hemsworth?"

Recently, someone found his wallet and returned it to him, Hemsworth gave him all the cash inside (I'm guessing a Hollywood A-lister carries a hefty wad of bills) and wrote a letter of recommendation to help him reach Eagle Scout.

All that is to say, Hemsworth seems like a respectable man, especially by Hollywood's standards.

So I was curious how this actor who, for me at least, connotes a certain amount of respect would respond to, as a click-bait article title teased, his daughter "saying she wants a penis."

If you've been paying any attention at all to politics and culture, you realize that this is a relevant topic, as North Carolina has passed a law insisting that people use bathrooms corresponding to their anatomy, while at the same time an appellate court refused to uphold the right of Title IX funded schools to do the same. State after state, including our home state of Michigan, is dealing with the same issue.

The idea that children can select a gender regardless of their genitalia is being vigorously debated across the nation.

So, as Hemsworth relates to Ellen DeGeneres, his 4 year old daughter is envious of her little brothers' genitalia. He mentions that he tried to explain that women have breasts, but she insisted that she wanted what her brothers had!

It's a cute little typical dad story, but what makes it relevant is his answer, "you can be whatever you want to be." He says when she heard that, she said, "thanks, Dad!" and let it go. He jokes that they may have to have a conversation in a few years, but that maybe there will be a pill by then where she can just grow one!

It's evident in the clip that he doesn't actually believe his daughter to be "transgendered;" he explains that he wanted to be a part of "The Huntsman: Winter's War," because it showed the kind of strong women he wanted his daughter to be influenced by.

He clearly isn't trying to make her a poster child, he was just telling a cute story, but his reaction is a portrayal of what polite society expects of its members. This is what is celebrated as good parenting – telling your daughter she can be a boy if she really wants to be.

Too big of a stretch from a parent's embarrassing story about their kid? Check out the heaps of praise British songstress Adele received when she brought her son to Disney World dressed as Princess Anna from Frozen!

Like Chris Hemsworth, I also have young daughter. She's three, a year younger than the actor's, but should the day come that my daughter questions the value of her gender or tells me she wants what her baby brother has, I am thankful that I can tell her confidently that God makes us different because He has different plans for us, that girl's have an awesomely important purpose that only they can fulfill, that she can be what GOD wants her to be which is infinitely more than she could imagine to want for herself.

On the same day that Hemsworth told this story, Abigail Dodds wrote about the Beauty of Womanhood, at Desiring God. This is how she described the importance of uniqueness between the sexes:

When we forsake our feminine glory in pursuit of the uniqueness that belongs to men, we abandon our God-given glory; we become usurpers, persistently insisting that our uterus and biology are equal to nothing, irrelevant. Women believe the lie that in order to be relevant in a man’s world, you become like a man, when the opposite is true. Do you want to be relevant? Then shock the world and be what you were made to be: a fearless, unflappable God-fearing woman. Do not abandon the very differences that make you essential.

I still believe Hemsworth to be a decent man, and I think his daughter is blessed to have a father like him. I hope that they can understand God's good gift of 'different' and use them to His glory.

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