Posted on 08/28/2012 2:35:47 PM PDT by scottjewell
Nils Pickert's five-year-old son likes to wear dresses, and Nils was concerned that he was going to grow up without a strong, positive role model. So he did what any mind-bogglingly incredible dad would do: he started wearing skirts himself.
[Translated from the German]:
"My five year old son likes to wear dresses. In Berlin Kreuzberg that alone would be enough to get into conversation with other parents. Is it wise or ridiculous? "Neither one nor the other!“ I still want to shout back at them. But sadly they can’t hear me any more. Because by now I live in a small town in South Germany. Not even a hundred thousand inhabitants, very traditional, very religious. Plainly motherland. Here the partiality of my son are not only a subject for parents, they are a town wide issue. And I did my bit for that to happen...
I didn’t want to talk my son into not wearing dresses and skirts. He didn’t make friends in doing that in Berlin already and after a lot of contemplation I had only one option left: To broaden my shoulders for my little buddy and dress in a skirt myself. After all you can’t expect a child at pre-school age to have the same ability to assert themselves as an adult. Completely without role model. And so I became that role model...
Being all stressed out, because of the moving I forgot to notify the nursery-school teachers to have an eye on my boy not being laughed at because of his fondness of dresses and skirts. Shortly after moving he didn’t dare to go to nursery-school wearing a skirt or a dress any more. And looking at me with big eyes he asked: “Daddy, when are you going to wear a skirt again?”...
To this very day I’m thankful for that women, that stared at us on the street until she ran face first into a street light. My son was roaring with laugher. And the next day he fished out a dress from the depth of his wardrobe. At first only for the weekend. Later also for nursery-school.
And what’s the little guy doing by now? He’s painting his fingernails. He thinks it looks pretty on my nails, too. He’s simply smiling, when other boys (and it’s nearly always boys) want to make fun of him and says: “You only don’t dare to wear skirts and dresses because your dads don’t dare to either.” That’s how broad his own shoulders have become by now. And all thanks to daddy in a skirt.
Plus as Vladimir asserts, it has been men who have developed laws, religions, technology, built cities, fought wars. If they begin to “go soft” it will end. Whereas females can “play” at these things. If they all go “too male” that becomes bad and dangerous to society also, for obvious reasons.
“I had only one option left:...dress in a skirt myself.”
Yeah...um...this guy might need a punch in the head.
Abso-freeking-lutely.
I’m a woman, too. I see your point, but my viewpoint is a bit different: Pants are far more comfortable... for everyone. That’s why, imho, this type of behavior seems to be an obsessive compulsion. We girls were expected to wear dresses on certain occasions, and sometimes dresses were fun to wear. But, most girls themselves wear pants every day. Why would a little boy feel the need to wear girlish dresses at all? As a young girl, I played with dolls and did girly things, but we wore dresses only for special occasions (or as uniforms in Catholic school). That is, we wore dresses when we were told to, or expected to, wear them. But, otherwise, we wore pants. I don’t ever remember having the obsession with dresses that, for example, this little boy seems to have.
Why not just tell him “Dresses are for girls, son, and if you don’t like it, t-s-. Life is like that sometimes.”
He can wear dresses when he grows up and buys them himself.
Not every idea that gets stuck in a kid’s head is a good one. It’s probably due to their still being kids and all.
And pedophiles.
“I had only one option left:...dress in a skirt myself.”
Yeah...um...this guy might need a punch in the head.
Even Godzilla saying WTF right now LOL!
Hey did you hear Mike Myers try get that character into movie didn’t do too well so they put on backburner in Hollyweird
They still working on the script right now
“You’re a woman. So what do you think about a “feminine” man? Honest answer.”
I don’t know for sure. Depends what your definition of “feminine” is. Men who make themselves look nice does not count as “feminine” in my mind, as so many make fun of here. Some are so gone I’d probably assume they’re gay - but sometimes, I’d be wrong!
Actually, you didn’t really reverse anything. Honest answer: what do you think of a “masculine” woman?
Back to the “feminine man” thing - my husband and his co-worker made a great point going on a story of co-w from Home Depot.
Homo men are “beyond women” - they behave in ways even normal women would never do. DH’s friend said if a woman behaved the way some of these homos act, everyone would think she was loony. At best, they act like silly little toddler girls.
Confucius say: “Man who wear skirt in public likely get kilt.”
LMAO
Or a 100 foot ape!
If we're speaking in the physical sense, I have to say I'm repulsed by a "masculine" woman -- that is, one who lacks all the curves, soft roundness, and jiggling avoirdupois of a physically feminine woman. I'm thinking bull dyke here, or an overthetop body builder. Now a fit and toned-up female looks rather nice; a female Conan the Barbarian doesn't.
Now as for an intellectually "masculine" woman, I think that's hard to define. I like smart, assertive, confident gals. Always have. But I refuse to claim those as "masculine" qualities. They are human qualities, shared by both sexes.
But those qualities sure look good in a bikini!
I live in small town USA. The men hunt, fish, farm, 4 wheel, snow mobile, work on cars. I cant imagine one walking down main street in a skirt with their nails painted. It just wouldnt fly. I think it’s the water. We have wells. No city water full of chemicals or estrogen. Who knows.
Makes you wonder just what were in those bombs we dropped on Deutschland during WWII?
And when the child decides to start doing porn at the age of 7, since he's without role models in that age group, Daddy Dearest will start gathering neighborhood boys for fliming to provide those role models, too?
Maybe, just maybe, there's a REASON that there's no role models in that area, Vater. Just sayin'.
but yet the feminist in me says “why is it that WOMAN = BAD”
Since the article was about how the guy was dressing, I’d assume we’re generally talking about how the woman presents herself, not whether she is naturally endowed or how she thinks. ;-) THAT is the question.
First off, don’t yell at me. Others here had the courtesy to NOT jump down my throat for my thoughts and to have a serious discussion. (For that I am grateful.)
And they ARE *my* thoughts, not any MSM or anything. I am the last person to be glibly accused of being anything liberal.
I already stated - as a woman, I’m a bit offended every time this kind of thing comes up - always the implication that we women are inferior (”bad”, in short): definitely any trappings of femininity are to be avoided by men. Meanwhile, it’s OK for women to seem manly and take on masculine trappings.
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