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Father of the Year Helps Dress-Wearing Son Feel Comfortable
nice story from Germany about a father going out of his comfort area to help his son, and likes it !!
http://gawker.com/5938676/father-of-the-year-helps-dress+wearing-son-feel-comfortable-by-putting-on-a-skirt-himself
My five year old son likes to wear dresses,” says German dad Nils Pickert.Back when he lived in West Berlin, it was certainly a conversation-starter, but not much more than that. Now, however, Pickert and his son live in a “very traditional” South German village where his son’s predilection for dresses is the talk of the town.
“I didn’t want to talk my son into not wearing dresses and skirts,” Pickert tells the German feminist magazine EMMA. “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.”
At first, Pickert’s son was reluctant to wear a dress in public, fearing he would be laughed at, particularly by other kids at his preschool. But that all changed one “skirt and dress day” when he and his dad made a resident of the town stare so hard she slammed into street light face first.
“My son was roaring with laughter,” says Pickert. “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.”
As you might imagine, this story has a happy ending:
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.
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somehow I wish all fathers do as this father has done
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4 Replies
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Yes, it still amazes and dissapoints me that females can wear whatever they wish, be it jeans overalls etc. and then put on a nice feminine skirt or dress outfit. Males are of course stuck with a set tradition of clothing.
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I agree completly i always think about that women can wear anything have short hair flannell shirt jeans thongs not one word would be said , i have been going out more feminine looking not full on but looking more fem i get so many looks although some good looks and some strange ones too, but the fact mens clothing is so god damb boring so i cant stop grabbing my fem shirts and dabbing a bit of makeup on before i go out.
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It takes challenges to societies normality for those norms to shift , the more the norms are pushed the more things become accepted, that story is a great example.
I choose to live my male side of life with some make up, lippy, bling and women cloths (sports wear) , but when I’m in a dress and heels I am all woman, a different story really. -
I agree with everything that has been said so far around pushing bounderies to find acceptance. Isn’t that just what we are endeavouring to do? I use some make up daily, nothing flamboyant but enough to feel good, and I wear female clothing, pants suit is order of the day with blouse and the usual nominal underwear. Push those bounderies I say!
Our German father is a hero, a trendsetter and most definately someone to be admired. We need more fathers like him.
Hugs
LIz
