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The Funslinger

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zehydra said:
it's uh... a strange picture to say the least. I don't find it offensive, although that mom'll have explaining to do when he finds this picture at an older age, lol.
hello, embarrassing 12th birthday party! XD

edit: what bothers me is how everyone sees cross-dressing being synonymous with homosexuality. I mean I doubt every guy to slap on a dress has gone "you know what I fancy now? A cock!"
 

Xanadu84

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zombflux said:
Shit for all I know the kid is a girl.

And who cares, he's 5, nobody has a sexual identity at that age.
Interestingly, thats not exactly right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

I didn't read the whole wikipedia article, but I did read the book that went over the case study. Long story short, a boy was re-assigned surgically as a girl after a circumcision accident. The parents raised him as a girl, never told him about the surgery, and generally made every enviornmental factor indicate, "Girl". He gravitated towards boyish things, generally acted like a boy, and felt that there was something severely wrong with him. When he eventually found out he was originally a boy, he said that it made perfect sense, and lived as a man.

But in regards to this ad, yeah, an instance of pink toenails is absolutely nothing to worry about, and calling this an issue of any extent is silly.
 

crudus

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Isn't that a girl anyway? Well, the social norms and whatnot are defined by the media anyway so I am not sure what people are bitching about.

Wierdguy said:
Besides the first impression "holy shit is she about to kiss that kid?!" no not really
That's what I thought too. Then I thought "wait, all toddlers and mothers do that".
 

The Apothecarry

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The kid is five. In terms of painted nails, he's just trying to have fun and be like his mom (which shows that she is a good parent because he looks up to her). Gender-confusion my ass.
 

natster43

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Not really. So what if the kid is having his nails painted, he is five. I would be like seeing a kid wearing a pink shirt at that age.
 

Daveman

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I didn't even notice his toenails until it was pointed out. Nope, there's definitely nothing wrong here.
 

DarkhoIlow

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I don't have an idea if it's a boy or a girl so can't really say.

If it is indeed a boy then that picture is just wrong at first glance,even though kids at that age have no idea about their sexuality.
 

Qmonster

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I think most little kids, male or female, at some point step into their mom's high heels and go "I'm a giant!" and not "I'm so confused!" Children that young partaking in and activity that is considered the norm for the opposite gender means only so much. I mean, little kids eat dirt...
 

dex-dex

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i knew two guys in my secondary school who are identical twins and their mother said to tell them apart when they were young one of the had their toes painted pink.
also who cares? he is five. kids world at that moment are about custard and spinning.
 

darthotaku

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oh please, my sisters made me put on dresses and makup when I was five and I didn't turn out wierd or anything like that.
 

beema

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The thing that's wrong with this picture is that it is supposed to be a clothing ad somehow. How the fuck does this ad make any sense? What does a weird mom painting her kid's toenails have to do with J Crew!?
 

Vault boy Eddie

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It got people talking about them so it worked, it's still gonna be removed by them I think. it's still an interesting choice tho, I would have thought they would have show off how good the shirt is or something, not how free and liberal the parent is.
 

thylasos

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The Apothecarry said:
The kid is five. In terms of painted nails, he's just trying to have fun and be like his mom (which shows that she is a good parent because he looks up to her). Gender-confusion my ass.
Pretty much this. Also: are there absolute arse-loads of these posters around or something? I fail to see how it would become something worthy of note... I mean, local paper, maybe, but exposure on national news or whatever?
 

Cheesebob

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WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? I AM SO ANGRY ABOUR THIS. I@M GOING TO WRITE TO THE DAILY MAIL/FOX NEWS ABOUT THIS HORRIBLE HORRIBLE THING.

wait, what am I looking at and why should i feel angered?
 

lightningmagurn

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Im not gonna lie, I got my nails painted when I was 5 too, now I have a girlfriend, so I like to think I'm not gay.
 

Jonluw

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I think I have a picture of five year old me in my mother's high heels, wearing lipstick, a dress and a wig.

Clearly, I am a transvestite.
 

k-ossuburb

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In an age where grown men can enjoy My Little Pony, I see no problem with this. Hell, I've bought a few womens shirts just because they fit me and they were the only ones in the store with designs I liked, the fact that they were made for women means nothing, it's just a shirt.

Anyone who gets offended by this needs to quickly catch up with the rest of us, gender and race are a thing of the past now (well, to me and most of the people I know, at least, I can't speak for the entire world for obvious reasons) it's about time people just got over it.
 

Zeekar

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I'm offended that the kid is clearly floating in mid-air. Stop breaking my physics, kid!