J. Crew

I don't want to sum up this entire controversy, but if you haven't heard about it, essentially in the most recent J. Crew catalogue there is a picture of a woman painting her son's toenails pink and nearly, or possibly every, major Western news channel picked up on this picture and labeled it "blatant propaganda celebrating transgendered children" and "gender bending." In regards to the first quote, firstly how does pink nail polish celebrate transgendered children and secondly why would it be an issue if it did? The Daily Show with Jon Stewart did a fantastic segment on this controversey which you can watch here. Jon handles the issue so well, and I suggest watching the clip because he there is a reason that he has a television show and I don't. As Jon said, "you make it sound like it's a story about incest and cannibalism." He also fantastically mentioned that if you paint your child has their face painted to look like a cat that does not make them a cat or a cat lover. I think J. Crew made a smart decision by not commenting on the story, in fact I believe they called it a non-story. This is not a "gender bender." Pink is a wavelength of light. Light does not decide gender.