Photograph Of Little Boy Wearing Pink Shoes To Preschool Sparks Heated Blogosphere Debate

[magus_69]

A viral photograph of a young boy who opted to wear pink shoes on his first day of preschool has sparked intense debate in the blogosphere.

Comments

[trivalent]

While we're at it, lets remind women not to wear skirts or 'indecent' tops or anything possibly construed as attractive.

[kittymink]

this too. arg, smh

[tigerdreams]

Thank you; this is what I came here to say. The gender-essentialist pink-is-girly-and-girly-is-bad line of thinking is bad enough, but for me, the idea that bullies are justified and victims have to change themselves in order avoid being victimized is just the icing on the shit-cake.

[sunktheglow]

This is so stupid. If a boy wants to wear pink shoes, don't tell him he shouldn't because of what people will think. Teach him to be strong in the face of that nastiness, don't teach him to hide who he is. People wonder how intolerance gets bred into the world, but then parents train their children to expect it. UGH.

[scolaro]

First of all: Go kiddo!

And second:
...Sam liked the shoes because they were "made out of zebras," as zebras are his favorite animals...

LOL on so many levels!

[kaelstra]

Go Sam!

[luminescnece]

I understand wanting to protect your kid from the pain and suffering of bullying. But as a kid who was viciously bullied for no overt reason through four schools in four different cities, bullying is random. Some children will be bullied for things that other kids do and are not bullied for. I was predominately bullied for being poor despite the fact that most of the kids bullying me for being poor lived in the same circumstances I did or worse

[lil_insanity]

This is a good comment and you should feel good.

[not_emily]

...bullying is random...

Truth.

[sio]

If people got as down on the parents of bullies as they did on the parents of girls that want to dress as boys and boys that want to dress as girls perhaps this world might be a better fucking place.

a-fucking-men. that's why i think schools should be fined out the ass for not doing what they're supposed to do to ensure that all kids get a peaceful education. also, bullies should be criminally charged--and their parents along with them, if there is a persistent pattern and the bully parents can't be bothered to control their little criminals.