My friend pointed me out to an article about an advertisement that shows a mother and her son laughing and putting on pink toenail polish.
A psychologist appeared on FOX News and said it was supporting transgender politics.
Someone please explain to me how a moment of happy bonding between a mother and son is going to convince him that his gender expression does not match a physical body. Transgenderism is a complex identity and branch of sexual and gender politics and to trivialize it by saying young boys embrace transgenderism by putting on neon pink toenail polish is outrageous.
It's true that this boy might be ashamed or embarrassed later in life for being in this ad. But what is it that would make him feel so awful, perhaps de-masculinized? Is it really the woes of the tragic transgendered lifestyle he will apparently take on? I would argue it is the rigid system of gender boundaries--"trappings" as the psychologist described them--that make boys and girls of all kinds to feel ashamed about doing something that isn't supposed to feel right.
We are the ones disciplining this young boy's body and mind with our stubborn binary politics, not some "liberal agenda."
This ad and the surrounding controversy points to SO MANY fundamental societal flaws. Try taking a little boy who loves pink out into the world while he's wearing his favorite pink tank top...the reactions are astonishing. Some people would even determinedly refer to him as "she" -- that pink shirt took over EVERY other "gender clue."
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