What is the big deal!

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I realize that this is probably a very debatable subject; truth is though I do not understand the over reactions. My subject J. Crew. For those of you who have not heard or read the article yet; let me fill you in. J. Crew has put out an ad that shows a mother spending some time with her child; that has painted toes. No big deal right? So, why all the talk? The child is a boy and his toes are painted pink. There have been several articles over this, but the only ones I have read are on Foxnews and Yahoo. There are those that say that this ad is horrible and is a danger to the child. I have this to say... What?! Their whole argument is about gender identity and that she is pushing her son to be something that he might otherwise naturally not be if encouraged in masculine activities. Who is to say he is not. You cannot make assumptions off of one photo. Anyways I think that the negative views are crock and they are grasping. Is it that his toes are painted? If so, they are saying that every man out there that goes and gets his nails manicured has gender identity issues. Or, is it that the toes are painted pink. So, every man who likes the color pink or wears a pink shirt has gender issues? Pure grasping is what I see from them. I say this for several reasons, first of all when I was a child the only sibling I had to spend my play time with was my younger sister. My sister and I spent great deal of my play time with her playing with toys that were defiantly not for boys. Such as Barbie dolls, my little pony and dress up. I will tell you this none of that made me have gender identity issues. In fact it helped to reinforce who I was. For those of you who know me I am not some small dainty guy walking around lol. I also learned things such as braiding hair and applying nail polish. What I see in this picture is a mother having a playful time with her little boy and honestly I believe it is very healthy for a boy to spend time with mom doing feminine things. Now I have to say if the picture showed a father with his daughter getting dirty, playing in the dirt or some other masculine activity there would have been nothing said. A boy playing with dolls, playing dress up or painting toe nails does not cause them to be gay or have gender identity issues. All the times I spent playing with my sister as a child just helped me in the long run. Most of all since I have 3 little girls! I swim in estrogen every day. But, as a father I am able to do things like paint toe nails and braid hair. I say to these people give it up and stop criticizing people. If they want to point fingers at gender identity issues point at all the dead beat dads out there that walk away from a woman with a boy or the father that never has anything to do with his boy child. Anyways that is my rant for the day; I am just tired of people putting down others, who cares if they turn out a little different than the norm. Let people be who they are and rejoice that they at least know who they are; the world would be so much happier. Someone identifying with another gender better or being gay does not make them a bad person.... it makes the human and everyone is different.

Been A While

Okay, it has been a while.. okay so it has been a long while..< roles eyes >. I have not fallen of the Earth, yet, but I have been spectacularly busy. So, all of it has not been so spectacular. It seemed the holidays got here went as quickly as they came and the new year hit and BOOM! Yup I got busy. School,life, kids, wife and friends. I regret to say that one of those has now fallen of my list (school), yeah I think that I just need a break from that for a while and focus on some of the things I enjoy.
While this blog will continue to focus on God and faith, I am going to be expanding it to cover much more. How much more? Life! Kind of vague I know, but it will be fun. Some of the things you will see on here are some of my crazy philosophical ideas, our snakes and their breeding, also our breeding of rats and mice, book reviews and things happening in the life around us and in the world. Yeah it is going to be interesting!
I do hope everyone will enjoy this new approach i am doing; I also hope that it will bring more comments and discussions.