Poor 5-year-old Beckett, pink nail polish on his toes and a major brouhaha all around him.
Beckett is a cute little boy with long blonde curly hair and a penchant for pink. His mother is the stylish Jenna Lyons, president and creative director of J. Crew. The two were photographed for the company's latest catalog hawking Essie nail polish.
"Lucky for me I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink," reads the caption. "Toenail painting is so much more fun in neon."
Cue the protests from some experts who say poor Beckett is being used by proponents of "liberal, transgendered identity politics," Erin R. Brown writes on the website of the Culture and Media Institute ("Advancing Truth and Virtue in the Public Square") that Lyons' "indulgence (or encouragement) could make life hard for the boy in the future."
She also wonders "what young boys in pink nail polish has to do with selling women's clothing." Uh, J. Crew was also selling Essie nail polish.
And really, all this from hot pink polish?
I remember how horrified Hubby was when I told him about the day I picked up Firstborn Son, then 3
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His teachers and I laughed, the teachers more knowingly because they said they see this all the time. Hubby was not amused. Today, Firstborn still loves dinosaurs and everything else boys are
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"supposed" to like. Sadly
cheap prom dresses 2011, he's learned. You have to be taught.
My 3-year-old nephew likes to play with anything his big sister plays with, be it Tinkerbell toys or dress up. In the same vein, Cheeky Baby has taken to toting a red Imaginext triceratops figure everywhere she goes.
She likes the roaring sound it makes. Should I be worried? Is my child transgendered and confused?
I should really turn my parents in on this whole issue, because they dressed me up like a boy for the first, oh, five years of my life. (And I have the pictures to prove it.)
Forgive them though, I was born on Dad's birthday and they were hoping I, as the fifth child, would be the longed-for boy, so to comfort themselves, they bought me bright orange pantsuits and red overalls to wear beside my year-older sister, who loved glamming it up in frilly dresses.
(The boy-dressing stopped around kindergarten. Then they just started dressing my sister and me in identical outfits, another level of parental crime.)
But have I grown up confused and transgendered? Math-challenged, yes; absent-minded
cheap short prom dresses, always. But pink nail polish does not a gender identity crisis make.
As I write this
cheap Cocktail dresses, Cheeky Baby
cheap long prom dresses, now all of 20months, is dressed up in a riotous pink concoction of a tutu and yes
ball gowns, she is clutching the red dinosaur too.
I imagine someday soon she will want to dress up as a Power Ranger
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Columnist Anissa V. Rivera can be reached at the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group, 1210 N. Azusa Canyon Road, West Covina
cheap Bridesmaid dresses, CA 91790. 626-301-1461.
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