r0bertbrowniejr:

Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.

She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that “ninjas can wear pink shoes too.”

Sam went to preschool and got several compliments on his new shoes. Not one kid said anything negative toward him about it. 

However, my mom received about 20 comments on the photo from various family members saying how “wrong” it is and how “things like this will affect him socially” and, put most eloquently by my great aunt, “that shit will turn him gay.” 

My mom then deleted the photo and told Sam that he can wear whatever he wants to preschool, that it’s his decision. If he wants to wear pink shoes, he can wear pink shoes.

Sam then explained to her that he didn’t like them because they were pink, he liked them because they were “made out of zebras” and zebras are his favorite animal :)

I would say ninjas don’t wear pink because it’s flashy and would draw attention to themselves, but you know what? I’m more afraid of the ninja that DOES want to draw attention to himself.

Kudos to the mom. I hate those shoes on any child, boy or girl, but that is an opinion of aesthetics, not morality or gender roles. Part of being a kid is the adventure of dressing yourself and the tacky outfits that come along with that.

(Source: danielnadcliffe)

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    this is adorable ghvkgf

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    awwwwwww kids like this make me smile :)

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    i hope y’all prepared him for the taunting, heckling, hate, and other negative results you get with this decision. I...

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    Rock out with your zebra shoes my dude. Being comfortable in your own skin is something most will never realize!

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