Saw this story on Tumblr and I really liked it. Makes you think about society and people's perceptions.
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Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.
She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that “ninjas can wear pink shoes too.”
Sam went to preschool and got several compliments on his new shoes. Not one kid said anything negative toward him about it.
However, my mom received about 20 comments on the photo from various family members saying how “wrong” it is and how “things like this will affect him socially” and, put most eloquently by my great aunt, “that **** will turn him gay.”
My mom then deleted the photo and told Sam that he can wear whatever he wants to preschool, that it’s his decision. If he wants to wear pink shoes, he can wear pink shoes.
Sam then explained to her that he didn’t like them because they were pink, he liked them because they were “made out of zebras” and zebras are his favorite animal
What does it say about society when a group of adults could stand to take a lesson in humanity from a class of preschoolers?
I saw this exact story on facebook with a few altercations. It was about a boy who wore that princess dress to a preschool party that was themed "Prince and Princess"
The mom posted the picture on facebook, adults were mean, kids were accepting, some kids even complimented the boy's dress.
Well, the truth is that men have to stick to gender norms more than women if they want to be fully accepted in society. Wearing pink girl shoes when he's a little boy might seem cute, but it will become problematic when he's older.
