05-10-2011, 12:34 PM
Guess there has been a bit of an uproar over a J Crew ad that blew the crap out of gender roles and stereotypes, with their pink toenails.
So..why the disparity??
![[Image: PINK.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/Marie56/PINK.jpg)
If a girl wants to try her hand at baseball or ice hockey, she's likely to be praised as plucky. But if a boy likes the color pink?
Well, that's often a toenail of a different color.
Last month, J. Crew unleashed a furor when a promotion depicted its creative director, Jenna Lyons, painting her 5-year-old son Beckett's toenails with pink nail polish. "Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink," the caption read
MORE HERE http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps...1105100304
So..why the disparity??
If a girl wants to try her hand at baseball or ice hockey, she's likely to be praised as plucky. But if a boy likes the color pink?
Well, that's often a toenail of a different color.
Last month, J. Crew unleashed a furor when a promotion depicted its creative director, Jenna Lyons, painting her 5-year-old son Beckett's toenails with pink nail polish. "Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink," the caption read
MORE HERE http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps...1105100304