Would you want your son wearing pink toenail polish? I would.
So lately, I've been doing some thinking about gender roles. You know, when you find out you're having a girl and all of a sudden your house is oozing pink out of every crevice? Or if you're having a boy, only to find that your choices for clothing include: balls (like they don't have a lifetime to obsess about balls!), dinosaurs, and puppies. I read an article today talking about the uproar caused by J. Crew when they mailed a flyer with a picture of a little boy getting his toenails painted pink (at his request) by his mother. Oh no! Gasp! Doesn't that mother know she's turning her son into a homo by doing that? Please. (I'm not going to get started on the issue of homosexuality because I know and love many people who are gay and didn't make that "choice"...) Who cares if that little boy wants to wear toenail polish? Will my daughter become a lesbian or become "gender confused" (as some suggest of the J. Crew ad) due ...