Conservative Idiots Freak Out About Boy Wearing Nail Polish in J. Crew Ad

Richard Lawson — Last week an ad was emailed to J. Crew customers featuring a photo of the company's president and creative director Jenna Lyons and her son in which she was painting his toenails pink. A caption below the picture read: "Lucky for me I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink. Toenail painting is way more fun in neon." Oh, fun. Good for her. Good for him. Right?Wrong. This is an outrage!

Psychologist Keith Ablow, the father of Glenn Beck's son, saw this ad and was so upset he decided to write a column about it. And that column is a thing of horrifying beauty. Let's look at a sample!

Increasingly, girls show none of the reticence they once did to engage in early sexual relationships with boys. That may be a good thing from the standpoint of gender equality, but it could be a bad thing since there is no longer the same typically "feminine" brake on such behavior. Girls beat up other girls on YouTube. Young men primp and preen until their abdomens are washboards and their hair is perfect. And while that may seem like no big deal, it will be a very big deal if it turns out that neither gender is very comfortable anymore nurturing children above all else, and neither gender is motivated to rank creating a family above having great sex forever and neither gender is motivated to protect the nation by marching into combat against other men and risking their lives.

Hahaha. This motherfucker thinks a young child putting pink nail polish on his toes means that the Army is going to become a parade of siss-fags who are all promptly shot to Swiss cheese by the real men, the Al Qaedas. Boys should not be wearing nail polish, nor should they have washboard abs or gelled hair! Boys, men, should be pot-bellied and wild-haired, farting and raping and shooting guns in the air, while girls are pink and smell like cake batter and never wear trousers. Hahaha. What a stupid fuck Dr. Keith Ablow is. Sorry, but he just is! He ends his article thusly:

I wonder what Jenna would think if her son wanted to celebrate his masculinity with a little playacting as a cowboy, with a gun? Would that bring the same smile of joy and pure love that we see on her face in the J. Crew advertisement? Or would that be where she might draw the line?

Guns are better than nail polish, if you're a boy. Thanks, Dr. Keith.

Some other moron is upset about this too, so that's good. I mean just look at that picture! Look at that smiling little faggot! Just terrible. Just so worth writing angry columns about. Thanks, everyone. Thanks and great job. Thank you for protecting the sanctity of humanity, of which you are such a good example, Dr. Keith Ablow.

Me -N- My Gay Son with Lady D

1.  What would you say you are most proud of about yourself to date?  I am most proud to be a strong independent black women.  I am proud to able to provide for myself in the simplest way, having the bare essentials of survival keeps me grounded.   Even though, I'm going through a few set backs "Still I Rise" for this to shall pass.  Lastly, I am proud yet humbled to have joy, peace and love through my faith in Jesus Christ as my Savior.

2.  What would you say you are most proud of about me to date?  This question makes me emotional and tears fall from my eyes.  What I am most proud about you in this space in time, is that you are a survivor.  You have gone through so many different cycles of ups and downs in your life and yet you hold tight.  I am proud of your creativity, your leadership, your patience, your kindness and thoughtfulness.  I am proud that you can turn one's sadness to laughter.  Oh, I could go on and on (mother's love, mother's love).  Lastly, I am proud that you have the capability to empower others.

3.  How did you respond when you first heard that my father was murdered?  I couldn't believe it!  I was totally devastated.  Losing someone once loved dearly hurts.

4.  If you could change one thing from your past what would it be?  There is something I would change but it is personal.  I can't disclose it.  When we have our one on one time, I'll share with you.

Me -N- My Gay Son with Lady D

 1.  How would you feel if to date, I hadn't come out to you and kept a secret about my sexuality?  At this point in time if you had not come out to me about your sexuality, I would have been hurt and disappointed.  We have a close relationship and if you can't tell your mother then there would have been a missed connection.
2.  I have felt like the 'black sheep' of the family for years, how does that resonate with you?  Your feeling like the black sheep in the family, saddens me.   However, on a positive note, I'm blessed and grateful that we have each other.  The Black sheep will always stand out and be noticed.
3.  When you found out that you were going to have a child, did you want a boy or a girl?   When I found out that I was going to have a child, I wanted a boy.  I wanted him to have the personality, charm, looks and intelligence of his father; in whom I was so love with.  By God I was blessed with the gift!
4.  You have an addiction to collecting Betty Boop.  What is your fascination with the vintage character?  My fascination with Betty Boop, is that she's the sexiest cartoon character I have ever known.  Reminiscing from my cartoon days she was smart, funny, sassy, playful and oh did I mention sexy.  Hmmm, sounds like me, LOL.  My latest collection is Betty dressed in a 70's outfit with the disco ball.

Me -N- My Gay Son with Lady D

 

1.  Do you think music can influence sexuality?  Hmmm, this is good question.  I think there is music with sexual under- and overtones, which can influence sexuality.   It is unfortunate that some music promotes promiscuity, degrades women and promotes crime and violence.

2.  We have had conversations about suicide.  How does it make you feel knowing that sexuality is the trigger for wanting to no longer be alive?   It really saddens me to think that because of one's sexuality, suicide would be the final out.  Not wanting to live any longer as a result of not being accepted, no one to talk to, no one to love you, seems so painful.  If we as a society would learn to mind our own business, we wouldn't have to concern ourselves with other people's sexuality.  God has the final say in ALL life and death.

3.  With what you know now, what would you have done differently in order to raise me to become a better man.  If I knew what I know now, I would have enrolled you into a mentoring program; especially after your father passed.  I would have pushed you to continue to get your college education. I think the urgent need for positive role models to mentor the youth is a must in this day and time.  It's not enough to have a man present in the household,  that man should have a positive and nurturing influence in your children's lives.

4.  Did you have gay friends growing up?  I may have had some and didn't know.

Me -N- My Gay Son with Lady D

1. Did you ever envision marriage for my future?  How do you feel about 2 people of the same sex, getting married?

I never envisioned you getting married to another man. I have wondered what it would be like to have a grandchild, though.  It can still happen, you do have the tool  and the juice (smile). About same sex marriage, being a Christian, I believe in what the Bible says about a man and a woman becoming. However, I think that when individuals of the same sex care and love one another, a civil union should exist for them.

2. What advice would you give to mothers who have young sons and they suspect them to be gay? How should they approach their child or should they?

If mothers notice their son having effeminate behavior such as dressing up in girl's clothing, or playing games traditionally created for girls, then they should take on having a conversation with them after having educated themselves on homosexuality.  On the flip side, there are some mothers that know that their child is gay but may think of it as a phase and believe that they will some day grow out of it.

3. How do you feel about gay men of God, ministers, evangelists and clergy men?

I am totally against gay men preaching from the pulpit.

4. Have you ever wondered how our lives would be if I were straight?

If you were straight, I think our lives would still be as it is now, filled with fun, love, laughter and honesty. However, I think perhaps you would be in a relationship married with children. I don't think that you would be put under so much pressure to prove yourself as a man. You would be more embraced the world we live in.

Me -N- My Gay Son with Lady D

My mother and I were talking about the lack of public conversations dedicated to growing up a young, gifted, black,  gay boy.  I was one of those boys and for the first eighteen years of my life, my mother was clueless.  Not naive, but clueless.  I used to get into everything.  Her closet, her make up, her business, but she was none the wiser.

One day, my mother bought a pair of black patent leather shoes and she would always look so fierce when she wore them. I admired her.  Watched her put on her make up in the bathroom mirror.  Eyeliner.  Lipstick. Blush.  She was my hero.  My dad was taken from me by a murderer, when I was eight years old so she was all I knew. She was my everything and the only person who seemed to love me for me.   She didn't tease me.  She defended me when others did.  She tickled me when I was sad.  She taught me how to cook and clean.  She showed me how to grow.

Lady D joins TheFutureForward.net with a candid dialogue between the two of us and stories from my childhood.  If you know someone who may have a gay child, (because let's face it, we were all children once and SOMEBODY knew), pass this along.  Suggest Me -n- My Gay Son to them and let them decide.  Imagine a world where mothers can speak candidly with their children about their sexuality.  Boys will grow to become better men who don't have to hide who they are.  They won't have to become masters at lying.  They can learn how to authentically give and receive love.

1.  What was your initial reaction when I told you that I was gay?

Wow!  I was surprised and then a sudden sadness washed over me.

2.  Thinking back to me growing up, can you recall any moments when you suspected that there was something special, something different about me, you knew what it was but didn't talk about it with anyone else.

(1)  I think about the times when you opted to jump double dutch with the girls instead of any of the sports with the boys. 

(2) One day I noticed that my eyeliner pencil was missing.  A woman knows her make up bag, trust me.  Then you started wearing eyebrow liner.

(3)  You said that you wanted to show me something and walked into the room wearing my six-inch, black, patent leather heels.  Initially, I was disturbed but you were dancing around an entertaining.  I remember telling you not to put them on again, but you somehow got away with it anyway. 
(4)  There was a time, when you asked me to take you to a classmate's house. When we got there, the house was dark and no one was home but you and the boy proceeded down to the basement. 

3.  Do you feel that had you done anything differently that I could have turned out to be straight or do you feel that this was something that I was born with?

During your early years I really didn't see any signs or maybe I wasn't looking because you were a happy child.  However, I felt that I had done ALL that a single mother could do.  I enrolled you in the Boy Scouts of America and the children's choir at our church.  I sent you to camp during the summer months and I kept you busy in school activities.  You were my little genius, I wanted you to grow up to be a good man, that's all I wanted for you.

4.  Who was the first person that you told after I told you.  What was that experience like for you knowing that the world doesn't embrace homosexuality?

I held on to that for a long time, hoping that it was just a phase and then I told my long time friend Preston.  The experience wasn't positive for me at all and he gave me no feedback at all.  It was unnerving.