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 :)
What does it say about society when a group of adults could stand to take a lesson in humanity from a class of preschoolers?
Words cannot express how happy this makes me.always always reblog, this is so heart warming.
look at his lil face
The innocence… What a cruel world we live it. I’m happy for him and his little shoes.
a million respect points
blua:
Charlie: “What do you think you’d like to be when you grow up?”
Linus: “Outrageously happy!”
You build up hope but failure’s all you’ve known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
I swear to god, if you don’t reblog this, you´re heartless
i know what it feels like to be in iraq and miss the birth of your own daughter.<3
Heartbreaking.
i’m literally dying inside :’(
this is amazing
amazing
