Posted on 10/26/2011 8:41:34 PM PDT by I still care
Last spring, I told you that Jenna Lyons, J. Crews president and creative director, wasnt just having a little, harmless fun with her son Beckett when she published a photograph of herself painting his toenails hot pink in a J. Crew cataloguea catalogue distributed to millions of people.
The quote accompanying the image of Beckett read, Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink. Toenail painting is way more fun in neon.
I said Lyons was making a cultural statement about masculinity no longer being important to boysthat she was, essentially, uncomfortable with his gender.
Comedian/commentators like Jon Stewart came out in force, defending Lyons and her behavior, and suggesting that I must be wrestling with some psychological demons of my own. How could I possibly think that a mom enjoying a little harmless dress-up with her son could mean she was messing with his gender?
But I didnt just think that. I thought Lyons was promoting a cultural agenda at her sons expenseand at the expense of all our sons whose masculinity was being downplayed. Why else would you pick that photograph, decide for Beckett that it was a really good one with which to brand him in the minds of millions, and make sure that his hair was long and wavy for the photo shoot? Why spend tens of thousands of dollars (or a hundred thousand or more) to distribute that particular photo of Beckett to millions of us.
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Similar to the daughter of lesbian Warren Beatty.
and Liberace was the spokesman for Blatz Beer. “Blatz is the most popular beer in Milwaukee. I’m from Milwaukee. I ought to know.” How things have turned upside down.
how to kill a brand....
j crew = fashion for homosexuals.
someone better fire that woman before she destroys the brand totally. (i think it is too late)
Wait until he discovers how that pic will follow him all through his school years and beyond. I think he will wind up hating her.
Then there’s Chaz and Anna Nicole Smith’s son, Danny.
Sorry, you cannot have a publically sexual mother, especially if you are a boy, without it creating so may conflicts while you are trying to develop your own sexual identity that the result is often, well, “mixed.” And sad.
We’ll see how Madonna’s son turns out.
Or Mom is unconsciously trying to reconcile herself to Dad’s past by making it appear, at least in her own eyes, that all little boys are drawn to girly leggings and weird hairstyles and other “fashionista” crappola, even though it’s Mom dressing them.
See, my husband is completely normal! Nothing to see here, move along!
Or as The Diceman put it,
“You either s-— d-— or you do not s-— d-—, there is no in-between.”
I’m A Boy
(Pete Townshend)
One girl was called Jean Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I’m a boy
My name is Bill and I’m a headcase
They practice making up on my face
Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear
Spend ages taking hairpins from my hair
Chorus 1
I’m a boy, I’m a boy
But my ma won’t admit it
I’m a boy, I’m a boy
But if I say I am I get it
Put your frock on Jean Marie
Plait your hair Felicity
Paint your nails, little Sally Joy
Put this wig on, little boy
Chorus 1
I wanna play cricket on the green
Ride my bike across the stream
Cut myself and see my blood
I wanna come home all covered in mud
Chorus 2
I’m a boy, I’m a boy
But my ma won’t admit it
I’m a boy, I’m a boy, I’m a boy
I’m a boy, I’m a boy, I’m a boy, I’m a boy
I’m a boy, I’m a boy, I’m__ a__ boy__
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