Notice anything "odd" about this screen grab from JCrew.com?
FOX News sure did.
J.Crew sent this pictorial out in an email newsletter to subscribers last week. It can also be seen on the website itself. And FOX had a freak-out about it. A story on the FOX News website about the ad reads:
“This is a dramatic example of the way that our culture is being encouraged to abandon all trappings of gender identity,” psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow wrote in a FoxNews.com Health column about the ad.
The article also quotes an opinion piece posted on the Culture and Media Institute's website by Erin R. Brown, with a headline that trumpets "J.Crew Pushes Transgendered Child Propaganda."
Oh come now.
So the kid's favorite color is pink and he likes to have his toenails painted?
Big whoop.
I have even less trepidation about Jenna Lyons sharing with the world that her son likes pink pedicures than I do about your average mom blogger doing the same thing -- because the truth is that Lyons' son Beckett will never be subjected to a middle class, suburban America crowd of peers that may very well one day tease him for this ad. Instead, Beckett will grow up in Manhattan with other privileged kids who, if they were to see this ad at the age of 10 or 12, would probably think it was cute. Or cool.
It looks like it was simply a slow news day for FOX News.
Racked agrees:
It's just pink nail polish, people. If the kid wants to wear pink nail polish, let him wear pink nail polish.
What do you think?
Image via JCrew.com
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Comments 34
That is the cutest baby hipster ever.
I completely agree, nothing to get excited about. A few years back, my son was into me painting my own toenails and wanted his painted in alternating green, blue and pink. His karate teacher told him it was "interesting" and he replied, "I am a free thinker and I like it!" LOL!
It's pink nail polish! Not a gun or anything dangerous! I had no idea that the color of something automatically screws with someone's gender identitiy. Yet another reason why I HATE Fox News and anything they say on there. If I had a son and he wanted pink nail polish, he would get pink nail polish. If my daughter wants to wear a batman costume, play with G.I. Joe figurines and hot wheels, then she can and she will!
Who in their right mind would take anything they heard on Fox seriously? There is nothing "wrong" and certainly nothing "dangerous" about this. We should encourage creativity and individuality rather than beating the old stereotypes to death.
lol, I remember painting my 2 sons toes w/ blue glittery polish once, ack. Really no big deal!
When I was painting my toenails pink, my 23 month-old son came over and wanted me to paint his nails. I ended up doing both his thumbnails. No big deal. It doesn't make him transgender or gay. It just means he was interested in what I was doing. God people need to get over themselves instead of trying to force kids to conform to a preconceived, ridiculous standard.