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Pink toes a no-no for little boys? J. Crew ad angers the gender wary
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So apparently an photo depicting mom and J. Crew executive Jenna Lyons painting her little boy's toe nails pink has some worried about the erosion of our society. The photo appeared in a newsletter mailed to customers last week.
According to a column by Dr. Keith Ablow for FoxNews.com, "This is a dramatic example of the way that our culture is being encouraged to abandon all trappings of gender identity."
Another expert for Fox added that the ad is "blatant propaganda celebrating transgendered children."
Hunh?
We sought another viewpoint from clinical psychologist and mental health advice columnist Dr. Andrea Bonior.
"Children naturally try on different gender roles as they develop," Bonior tells Zap2it. "Especially those who are creative or artistic. To stigmatize it probably contributes to the very real problems of objectification of young girls and sexual violence. It's ignorant and unduly alarmist -- if your kids decide to pretend to be puppies one afternoon, shall we start worrying about future bestiality?"
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Sorry. You do up a dude's toenails in pink and your just trying to make him fruity.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with this! Gender exploration for youths is perfectly natural. Besides, whose business is it anyway whether a boy likes girls things or whether a girl likes boys things?
So Fernando...are you saying that a heterosexual's link to heterosexuality is tenuous? A homosexual is a homosexual. A heterosexual is a heterosexual. If painting a hetero boy's nails pink makes him gay, that say more about the nature of heterosexuality than it does the "fruit"iness he'll adopt.
Fernando has some issues of his own. His mother probably never let him wear pink nail polish, and his earnest dad would probably have beaten him. Good ole' family values.
I looked at the ad and all I see a mother and a son having a good time together. I didn't even notice the nail polish. But that being said if a person wants to raise their son to wear nail polish it is up to them. If they want them to play with guns it is up to them. Their kid their choice.
Honestly, what are we afraid of? That because this child wears pink nail polish that he MIGHT grow up to be "fruity", gay, bisexual or transgender? Really there are worse things he could grow up to be...like a rapist, child abuser or a murderer. How about we just try loving and supporting our children?