Here’s a real Rockwell painting, courtesy of the hacks at USA Today and apparently NBC News.
“A California man took his toddler son for a mani-pedi after the boy’s teacher told him ‘painting your nails is only for girls.’” The dad took him to a nail salon in (where else?) West Hollywood, and made a TikTok video of the child abuse, and society being what it is, the video went viral.
“The clip – which as of Thursday had more than 4 million views and had garnered more than 700,000 likes – shows Shearhod’s son, Ashton, at a West Hollywood nail salon, excitedly shouting, ‘I want pink!’ before the service.”
Isn’t that cute. Dad happens to be a public school teacher (@Libsoftiktok, call your office), which USA Today stressed for some reason – maybe to encourage parents to homeschool. “He said his son first expressed interest in nail polish about age 2. ‘Since then, we started painting our nails together.’”
If anyone is looking to reboot the Andy Griffith show for the 2020s, I think I found your update for the heartwarming father-son fishing bit in the title sequence.
On the bright side, feminists should be encouraged. At the rate we’re going, we won’t have any masculinity left, toxic or otherwise.