Posted on 08/28/2012 2:35:47 PM PDT by scottjewell
Nils Pickert's five-year-old son likes to wear dresses, and Nils was concerned that he was going to grow up without a strong, positive role model. So he did what any mind-bogglingly incredible dad would do: he started wearing skirts himself.
[Translated from the German]:
"My five year old son likes to wear dresses. In Berlin Kreuzberg that alone would be enough to get into conversation with other parents. Is it wise or ridiculous? "Neither one nor the other!“ I still want to shout back at them. But sadly they can’t hear me any more. Because by now I live in a small town in South Germany. Not even a hundred thousand inhabitants, very traditional, very religious. Plainly motherland. Here the partiality of my son are not only a subject for parents, they are a town wide issue. And I did my bit for that to happen...
I didn’t want to talk my son into not wearing dresses and skirts. He didn’t make friends in doing that in Berlin already and after a lot of contemplation I had only one option left: To broaden my shoulders for my little buddy and dress in a skirt myself. After all you can’t expect a child at pre-school age to have the same ability to assert themselves as an adult. Completely without role model. And so I became that role model...
Being all stressed out, because of the moving I forgot to notify the nursery-school teachers to have an eye on my boy not being laughed at because of his fondness of dresses and skirts. Shortly after moving he didn’t dare to go to nursery-school wearing a skirt or a dress any more. And looking at me with big eyes he asked: “Daddy, when are you going to wear a skirt again?”...
To this very day I’m thankful for that women, that stared at us on the street until she ran face first into a street light. My son was roaring with laugher. And the next day he fished out a dress from the depth of his wardrobe. At first only for the weekend. Later also for nursery-school.
And what’s the little guy doing by now? He’s painting his fingernails. He thinks it looks pretty on my nails, too. He’s simply smiling, when other boys (and it’s nearly always boys) want to make fun of him and says: “You only don’t dare to wear skirts and dresses because your dads don’t dare to either.” That’s how broad his own shoulders have become by now. And all thanks to daddy in a skirt.
The school bullies will be all over this kid.
“And what’s the little guy doing by now? He’s painting his fingernails. He thinks it looks pretty on my nails, too.”
What happens when he decides to do a little rump ridin?
Right, he has totally missed the point. He is supposed to be setting limits, not going along with every whim this kid has. What if the kid wanted to dress as Hitler? I don’t think the boy needs to be humiliated over the dresses , jut gently guided away from them by a strong, caring Dad, which he obviously doesn’t have.
And it seems the feminists have handed men a female-centered agenda which they’re following, to the point of dressing boys as girls.
I’m sure the Dad will join in. It’s obvious he’ll go down any road the kid wants to travel.
Easily the best point on the thread.
So instead of setting an example of how to be a man, he wants to make his son “feeeeeeeeeel” better and decides to dress like a boy who is abviously confused. Nice. Where is this Dad’s dad so he can smack the crap out of him?
how much ya wanna bet it was the other way round??? the kid prolly saw his fruityfather wearing one first
The cultural background in me wants to raise an eyebrow and smirk, but yet the feminist in me says “why is it that WOMAN = BAD” which is essentially what reaction to this is.
No one gets upset when girls dress in pants (which I do all the time; not much of a girlie-woman). Not upset when we get into cars (again, another of my things).
But when boys show any interest in “girl” things - watch out!
I know this won’t be popular, but I just have to say it. As a woman, I’m always a bit offended how “feminine = bad”.
So, I really don’t know what to think of these things. Do men just fear being homo more than women do?
Never mind Scots and Romans and just about every ancient man wore “skirts”. Hell, even in Siam men wore skirts, women wore “pants”.
(Soon to be "Ich bin ein Eyeliner.")
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Get those shoes off and bake some damn cookies!!!
(yes, I’m just kidding)
Then I imagine this kid will be wearing a skirt til the cows come home...
Toga, peplum, kilt, sarong, apron, whatever -
Napoleon’s French troops had a name for the kilted Highlanders from whom they fled in terror - THE LADIES FROM HELL.
Real Men Do Wear Skirts - they just don’t call ‘em that.
Kreuzberg is the San Francisco of Berlin. Freakishness is in great abundance there.
That said... gee, Dad.. how about showing a little fatherly guidance and encourage some normalcy for your son... idiot.
You wrote:
“So, I really don’t know what to think of these things. Do men just fear being homo more than women do?”
To be concise: Yes. Men also build civilizations, establish law and order, work out philisophy, began the conquest of space.
Women, on the other hand, make us play nice, be polite to everyone, be tolerant (yelch!), make the law about “fairness” rather than “rights”, and exalt the role and rule of feelings and sentiment in society.
I’m just saying...
I hear you. It just seems to be a universal law of some type, that girls are simply adding when they do male things, but males are “devolving”. Could it be because every fetus begins as female? thus males fear the backward movement but females feel they are simply adding “the road not taken”? All I can think of.
Feminine doesn't mean bad. It means of or relating to females. As a man, I can affirm that feminine means good -- assuming the person who is feminine is a female.
Now let's reverse it: You're a woman. So what do you think about a "feminine" man? Honest answer.
As a woman, I’m always a bit offended how “feminine = bad”.
The pants thing, women can get away with, but IMHO a man in a dress in Western culture is, well, not manly.
By the way, if you have Catholic sympathies as your profile says you might really enjoy the following books by a tremendous woman philosopher:
http://www.amazon.com/Privilege-Being-Woman-Alice-Hildebrand/dp/097061067X
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Woman-A-Divine-Invention/dp/1932589562/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y
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