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Old 04-11-2011, 11:08 PM
 
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So you think it should be illegal to advertise a product if it features a man with pink toenails?

I was at a Wendy's the other day where most of the male employees were wearing earrings, and I didn't have the impression that they were gay. Would you boycott a business that allowed men to wear earrings? Just wondering how extreme you are.
No one said anything about the legality of the ad. This is a free country and I am happy to keep it that way. That being said, just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. I agree with the psychologist in the link. The mother in the ad, who is polishing her son's toe nails, is not doing her son any favors. And, in case your question was actually sincere, no I would not boycott Wendy's for hiring men with earrings, but if Wendys started pushing earrings or toe nail polish on young boys, I might lose my taste for their salads.
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Old 04-11-2011, 11:13 PM
 
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Well, how about the fact that encouraging the choosing of gender identity, rather than suggesting our children become comfortable with the ones that they got at birth, can throw our species into real psychological turmoil—not to mention crowding operating rooms with procedures to grotesquely amputate body parts? Why not make race the next frontier? What would be so wrong with people deciding to tattoo themselves dark brown and claim African-American heritage? Why not bleach the skin of others so they can playact as Caucasians?
Lol the jump from dressing in dresses to sexual reassignment surgery to racial reassignment surgery is hilarious. I couldn't help but laugh at the really obvious attempt at instilling fear in readers.
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Old 04-11-2011, 11:14 PM
 
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No one said anything about the legality of the ad. This is a free country and I am happy to keep it that way. That being said, just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. I agree with the psychologist in the link. The mother in the ad, who is polishing her son's toe nails, is not doing her son any favors. And, in case your question was actually sincere, no I would not boycott Wendy's for hiring men with earrings, but if Wendys started pushing earrings or toe nail polish on young boys, I might lose my taste for their salads.
My cousin painted his nails blue at age 23. He's still straight as can be. He shows no signs of psychological disorders of any kind.

Wearing fingernail polish doesn't make someone gay or trans or mentally ill.
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Old 04-11-2011, 11:20 PM
 
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You deny there isn't a gay agenda? They aren't out to normalize and desensitize people, starting with children, to their abnormal behavior? What do you think gay marriage is all about? Won't be long before they are teaching this wonderful alternate lifestyle in pre-school.
Letting people live the way they want. The whole point of gay marriage is about NOT forcing someone else's agenda on people. Not allowing it forces anti-gay people's agenda on gay people.
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Old 04-11-2011, 11:20 PM
 
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My cousin painted his nails blue at age 23. He's still straight as can be. He shows no signs of psychological disorders of any kind.

Wearing fingernail polish doesn't make someone gay or trans.
The act of wearing it? - no. A mother encouraging her son to wear pink nail polish or a mother encouraging her son to wear princess dresses? Possibly. Certainly helping to create some gender confusion issues. Read Freud.
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Old 04-11-2011, 11:24 PM
 
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The act of wearing it? - no. A mother encouraging her son to wear pink nail polish or a mother encouraging her son to wear princess dresses? Possibly. Certainly helping to create some gender confusion issues. Read Freud.
My parents forced me to wear dresses and makeup as a kid and I still turned out gay. All their encouraging me to conform to gender standards did nothing to make me straight. Encouraging gender-non-conformity doesn't make a straight person gay, just like enforcing gender-conformity doesn't make a gay person straight.
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Old 04-11-2011, 11:35 PM
 
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No one said anything about the legality of the ad. This is a free country and I am happy to keep it that way. That being said, just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. I agree with the psychologist in the link. The mother in the ad, who is polishing her son's toe nails, is not doing her son any favors. And, in case your question was actually sincere, no I would not boycott Wendy's for hiring men with earrings, but if Wendys started pushing earrings or toe nail polish on young boys, I might lose my taste for their salads.
so by this line of thinking a mom that lets her daughter play with trucks isn't doing her any favors?
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Old 04-12-2011, 12:17 AM
 
Location: Boise
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painting your fingernails as a child doesn't make you gay... jesus...
you people are sooo paranoid.. heaven forbid you have to balance reality with your dogmatic religious beliefs...regardless.. that's your deal.. and you are just a loud minority.. most people are past the bullsh*t and nonsense of it all. Gay people have kids.. they don't turn out gay.. straight and gay little kids paint the damn walls with crayon let alone their toenails.. it's REALLY a non issue..
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Old 04-12-2011, 12:26 AM
 
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This is why we shouldn't let girls play sports or learn math. Gender roles people, stick to them. Ladies stick to your home ec or else they'll get gayified.
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Old 04-12-2011, 12:31 AM
 
Location: Boise
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This is why we shouldn't let girls play sports or learn math. Gender roles people, stick to them. Ladies stick to your home ec or else they'll get gayified.
no see.. society says it's ok for girls to be boyish.. but if a boy is girly.. OMG it's the homo disease!!! ack!

proof that our society is still male gender dominant..
it's rubbish
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