Last December trolls swarmed Hilary Duff’s Twitter feed after she posted a photo of herself kissing her then-four-year-old son, Luca, on the lips. Some people on the Internet took this perfectly harmless interaction between mother and son as an excuse to shame Duff. Comments like “gross,” “sick,” and even “get a room” began to pop up, but Duff shut them down with a pretty epic clap-back.

“For anyone commenting that a kiss on the lips with my 4-year-old is ‘inappropriate,’ go ahead and click a quick unfollow with your warped minds and judgment,” she tweeted.

And now something similar is happening to Olivia Wilde. The actress posted a photo to Instagram of herself kissing her three-year-old son (Otis) on the lips, and the comments section is already flooded with troll-y garbage.

“Kissing your kid like your husband. It’s not good for him,” one person wrote. “It’s gross,” wrote another. A few people even said Wilde will make her son sick by kissing him on the lips, which is just wrong and problematic on many levels. And get this: One user actually insulted Otis’ haircut. He’s three years old!

Instead of going on some long-winded rant about why these comments are out of line (that’s obvious, right?), let me just say this: Stop policing celebrity mothers. Wilde knows her child—and what’s best for him—better than random people on the Internet. It’s beyond messed up that a mother can’t share a genuine moment of love with her child without people contorting it into something wrong.

Wilde hasn’t acknowledged these comments (yet), but we’ll update this post if she does. We expect her clap-back game, like Duff’s, is very strong.

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