“It’s sad, really. When our society treats anything associated with femininity like a deadly pathogen that threatens masculinity, it tells us three things:
- that masculinity must be pretty fragile, to be threatened by something as innocuous as a little nail polish or a floral purse or a kids’ cartoon;
- that our culture is still struggling with a strong undercurrent of homophobia, despite much progress in recent years; and
- that our culture really has a deep-seated problem with women and girls, to consider anything associated with females repulsive and wrong and deviant when they’re near men. (There is no parallel sense of repulsion when girls enjoy boyish things, like cars or trucks or superheroes, because boys’ things aren’t regarded as inherently degrading.)”