His Nails Are Painted Too!

The entire family is currently sitting on our front porch painting our nails, or getting them painted. It's amazing to me how innocent an art form this is when seen through the eyes of my 5 and 6 year old and yet, when I view it according to the rest of the world, boys with painted nails seems downright heinous. To my kids, it's just like temporary tattoos..... especially since it's so temporary. I mean it doesn't take a needle or ink and doesn't puncture a hole in any part of the body.

I see infants being carried around with earrings and can't help but think how that child must have screamed when that evil person held the stud gun to her lobe and pulled the trigger. And how shameful of the parents to think more of the child's appearance than her development. How can girls be taken seriously when from birth they are taught that looks are THAT important. Sure you can argue that it's a cultural thing. I would agree but debate that cultural tolerance should be reserved for those practices which are not sexist.

Why not write off my husbands brightly painted toes, my son's brightly painted toes and fingers and the fact that mine and my daughter's equal their splendor, as a cultural difference between our family and the majority of the world. We(the four of us) are a tiny culture saturated in gender freedom. Don't hate.