In a recent interview, Tia explained why she didn’t think it was cool that a friend’s son was sent home from school for painting his nails.
And that didn’t sit well with a lot of people.
Sandra Rose writes:
In an article on Momtastic blog titled ‘Why Stereotypes Shouldn’t Exist’, Mowry-Hardrict defended a friend who allowed her young son to wear nail polish to school.
Mowry-Hardrict criticized the school for calling the mother to pick up her son after he was bullied over his nail polish.
She wrote: “Not only that, the teacher told him to take it off. And it’s like, okay, would you have done the same thing if it was a young girl who had on pink nail polish?”
Mowry-Hardrict’s Instagram followers dragged the mother-of-one relentlessly for defending feminine stereotypes in boys.
One wise woman wrote, “It’s not a stereotype it’s the truth! Boys should not be wearing nail Polish period!” She added: “The real problem with the world today is that people like you are confusing our youth!”
Another astute follower chimed in: “I never understood why women try so hard to take masculinity from our sons, raise them to be whatever they want to be but not what God made them to be.”
I’m just gonna say it and not argue with who ever gets offended on here and wants to argue. A lot of black people are too close minded. The way we treat gays and transgender people is disgusting. We treat them exactly how the racist whites treat us. You can’t teach a child how to be gay, masculine or feminine. They are who they are. So if your son likes nail polish, you can beat him, kick him out the house and school, but he’s still going to like nail polish. Learn to love your kids no matter what. By letting them be themselves, they can live happier lives.
Thank you! Such a big part of our culture across the African diaspora is rooted in European gender norms and mores, and I’ll just say they haven’t served us well yet.
I completely agree.
Right!
Such a refreshing comment!!!!!!!
You’re refreshing, Hershey. I wish you would comment more like you used to. I know this hits close to home.
Please. He is a child. He can like what he wants but if I am the parent he wont wear it until he is legal age. No,you cant beat it out of them but Im not going to have someone else beat him for it either. Growing up is hard enough without having to deal with all that. When my child is old and confdent enough to deal with what comes with that lifestyle without me having to run to his rescue every week, then we can decide then. Till then its not happening
I agree totally. Who gave this boy child nail polish in the 1st place. Why didnt he follow respect when he was told to remove it. The issue is there are certain levels of doing your own thing when you are a child and another when your grown.
I disagree, the reason why growing up is hard is because of the “bullies” and the “single minded” people who think it’s ok to make fun of people or hurt people whom are different or think differently than they do! GOD is the ONLY one who can judge us!
God bless every single one of you who is tired of black people and black children being placed in boxes. Not all of us want to live in conformity and fear to make other people comfortable. Life is too short and telling someone not to be themselves does more damage than many realize.
This whole topic has been discussed way too much.
Would this even be an issue if these deadbeat fathers were actually in their children’s lives? Now that’s the real question. But I’ll let them get back to dragging the mom and blaming mothers for every damn thing.
She needs to cut her son’s hair.
You should be able to raise your child how you want. As long as they are well taken care of and not being abused what’s the problem?
Every generation thinks they broke the mold on parenting and have some new and better way of parenting so this is a discussion that always leads nowhere. We live in a country that embraces certain lifestyles a little too much so some feel that children are introduced to certain images hence being influenced but at the end of the day we all just want whats best for our children
People and their conspiracy theories.
All this does is remind me that a lot of women are s-xist. They enjoy gender roles and don’t even understand how brainwashed they are. He likes nail polish? And? Does that make him a bad child? A bad person? My people, my people.