So by now you've heard about the crap going around about the J Crew ad that features one of their female execs and her five-year-old son in a great Mom-to-kid pose with smiles and love. It's very cute. Oh, and the son has some nail polish on the toes of the foot Mom is holding...this really concerns the uber-conservative types.
As far as I'm concerned, I am not concerned. Who gives? Do people really (really) think that by painting a little boy's toe nails with pink polish is going to confuse him? He is probably more confused by the outrage that is now surrounding what probably was a fun moment with his Mom. Apparently, some of these crazy people are saying it's promoting transgendering (or whatever the term they've used).
People are just plain old crazy. Granted, I am not a fan of nail polish on little kids or babies with earrings just because, well, they're babies and little kids. It has nothing to do with gender identification confusion; I just think that kids hardly have enough time to be kids before they're whipped into mini-adults. But that's me. What would these morons have said and how would they have reacted if the kid was truly a child who felt that he was not a boy, but a girl with boy parts? They would have, no doubt, found something in a bible that they could interpret it as a sign of demonizing and demoralizing and de-whatevering. That's the fun part of the bible, you can read pretty much anything into it as your crazy-ass religion wants to...they'll be sure to find some kind of reference to the adorning of manly nails...geez!
So, there you have it. J Crew, to their credit, has chosen (so far) not to respond to the crazies. I'm sure my very conservative brothers will have something to say, but then why not.
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