Perfect answer. |
Well I never wear nail polish and my muscles are weak. Explain that, PP. |
It's always the men that can't do a push-up or change a tire that get caught up in stupid crap like this.
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I would do it for my five year old if he asks. He also asked to get a doll now that his little sister got one. I actually felt bad that we never offered him a doll, I just didn't think of it. I didn't get into gender neutral toys and maybe I should have. I see nothing wrong and if people have a problem with it it's THEIR problem. |
My kid likes it sometimes, so we do it. This week we did his right toenails red and left ones blue to reinforce left vs right.
If he wanted to do his fingernails I would tell him that he might hear from people who say boys can't have fingernail polish but that those people are idiots and it's totally his choice, what color? If his father derided him for things he likes there would be issues much bigger than nail polish. Some of the husbands here are not exactly quality dad material. |
I have no problem with it but I asked my 12 year old boy out of curiosity what he would think to see a boy with nail polish.
He said that it's not exactly masculine but you don't have to be masculine to be a boy. He wouldn't pay much attention to it, though. NBD. I asked him if it would matter what color the polish is and he said that colors are colors and they don't have genders. It lead to an interesting convo, which can be hard to come by with my quiet tween, so OP, thanks for that. |
You and your son bonded over something that made him happy. My 3yo DS always wants his nails painted when I do mine but I don't do it just bc he won't sit still long enough for them to dry. |
Why is this even a question? He's 5. My son wanted multicolored toes. So that's what he got. It was fun! |
When my son was little he had long hair, liked to dress up in his grandma's jewelry, sometimes wore nightgowns, and had several dolls. He ended up straight and masculine now that he's an adult. Go figure! |
Let him have fun exploring this stuff freely before the world rips it away from him. It's part of being a kid and it's all good fun. If you don't let you kid do it, at least teach him that people make different decisions and it's never ok to make fun of someone because of choices in what they wear. |
Itâs cute.
My son loved having painted nails whenever I got mine done. Lasted on & off until 7. He is 10 now. Into art, chess, tennis, and parkour. Some of his anime-type drawings have colored nails |
What a load of crap. |
Basic biology - the males of a species generally have brighter coloring.
Historically, men have often sported elaborate and extravagant fashions. In ancient Rome, women were once prohibited from wearing more than one color or having too much gold (although silk was forbidden for men so that they would stay tough). https://www.britannica.com/topic/dress-clothing/Government-regulation-of-dress For most of history, men have been the ones wearing high heels. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-13/why-do-we-wear-high-heeled-shoes/9135936 Even the whole pink/blue color assignment is fairly recent. When it started, about a century ago, pink as the âstrongerâ color was assigned to boys and âdaintyâ blue was assumed to be the right color for girls. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/ While I think men were smart to get out of the high heels, I have sometimes felt sorry for how constrained they are by modern fashions. In formal attire, they get to choose between a black tux, or maybe if theyâre daring, a white jacket. For business attire, they can wear a black, brown, grey, or navy suit, but they can choose the color of the necktie to strangle themselves with. Even as kids, sparkly, glittery, and/or frilly things are mainly reserved for girls. Girls are free to wear blue and will almost certainly have lots of blue denim in their wardrobe, but if a boy wears pink, theyâre liable to get the side-eye. My girls had lots of fun when they were younger experimenting with nail art, and painting their nails in general. I donât see any reason why boys shouldnât have the chance to paint their nails, too. Growing up in the â70s and â80s, the trend was to knock down gender stereotypes. While I rolled my eyes at my middle school English teacher, whose sentences for grammar examples all ran along the lines of âJohn bakes a cake.â and âJane fixes the car.â, I think that feminists of that era were right that boys and girls can both make choices outside of the stereotype. While there may be some things (including fashions), that may more generally appeal to boys than girls (or vice versa), there is such wide variation both on preferences at a personal level at any specific time, and at a cultural level depending on time and place, that it just doesnât make sense to get worked up about restricting something as superficial as fingernail polish to a specific gender. |
I paint my sonsâ nails. They are 5 and 7. I steer them towards colors like blue, green, and black glitter. I donât wear a lot of pink and red polish and they think my pale neutrals are boooooring |