How will this work then?

The same as yours!!!

Poor child.

How will this work? - it won't. Attention-seeking nitwit!

Oh, not Russell Grant then? Thought he was a bit old...

It wouldn't work because Brand's too much in the public eye and wouldn't be able to resist parading the poor child in front of the media at every opportunity.

He's an idiot. You can't gender neutralise a child no more than you can impose a gender.

He'll give the child an odd name, never tell it whether its a boy or a girl, dress it in gender non specific clothes and offer it a range of toys. Some don't even tell their families whether the child is male or female. Basically he'll screw with the child's head until the child realises it's a boy or a girl and demands to be treated as such.

Was very surprised that Russell Grant would be doing such a thing. Brand however, that's a different story. Anything to keep his name in lights, after all he knows best doesn't he?

Glad it isn't Russell Grant but not a bit surprised that Russell Brand comes out with something so foolish. He shouldn't be allowed to have children. I see that there is a mother, his fiancée, Laura Gallacher. So I hope she has more sense and that her opinion will prevail.

Lol sorry all .... I , did of course mean Brand...damn that lack of Edit button

There was a story about a couple who did this with at least one of their kids, in Canada I think. I haven't seen anything about it since it was first mentioned in the press. Has anyone?

I think it's only people who completely align with "blank slatism" who'd consider this. As I understand it the blank slate idea is that all child development depends on nurture/environment and nothing on genes. Seems a bit simplistic to me.

" How will this work then? "

It won't, will it? How ridiculous he is. I would go so far as to say that what he intends to do is actually child abuse.anyone else agree?

Stupid man. Poor child.

This is OK magazine. I can't help thinking RB is taking the piss.
"Russell, who popped the question to fiancée Laura Gallacher recently, also opened up about his romantic proposal. And he admitted the emotional moment made him cry.
The 41 year old added: “I cried at my own beauty.

“You know when you think ‘I’m being so nice now, Oh God I think I’m going to cry’ because you’re impressed with how nice you are.
“I properly planned it and put proper ideas into it and made it all nice and did like a surprise party for her.
“Her mum helped me to organise it, get her on side!” "

As for his comments about the gender of his child, he sounds as though he is going to be a devoted Dad.
I didn't 'impose a gender' on any of my children either!

Prat!

He was married to Katy Perry for a short while - apparently they split up because he was keen to have children and she wasn't...

Poor child will have enough to cope with having him as a father!

There's a lot to be said for not labelling toys as boys' toys or girls' toys. Ditto clothes and footwear. At least until puberty.
A lot to be said for not having certain expectations of girls but not of boys, or vice versa.

If that's what Brand means, I don't have a problem with it.

But, as my dad used to say, biology will out. And there's nothing wrong with that either, so long as it doesn't restrict people.

I'm not sure that is what he means Bags .

We shall see.

Perhaps not, n&g, but it is the principle that matters, not what some narcissistic Sleb thinks or does.

We are an all-female family, nine girls until a grandson appeared.
He was just different from before he was two, fascinated by how things work, peering up drain pipes, obsessed by diggers. I gave him a doll and buggy, just as I'd given my daughters trains and trucks. He threw out the doll and put a crane in the buggy.
Once a little boy discovers his willie there's no way he'd want to be gender neutral.

He's having a child?

Should we inform Social Services?

I think Brangelina's daughter chooses to dress as a boy and says she is a boy, but quite honestly I wouldn't have noticed unless someone pointed it out.

Anyway - are they particularly aware that there is a difference unless they have a brother or sister or the family walks around naked?

Unless we actually from the horses mouth we have no idea what he really means. Magazines are sensationist.