file under: are you fucking kidding me?

[veronica_rich]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2011/04/j-crew-and-jenna-lyons-pink-toenail-controversy.html

I saw this on "The Daily Show" so I had to go look it up to make sure Jon wasn't having me on. Basically, it's a J. Crew ad where a woman is playing with her young son and in one photo, is painting his toenails neon pink. AND IT HAS CAUSED CONTROVERSY. About gender identity.

And you only get one guess as to what "news" network is making the most hay with this.

Further proof we are apparently far too affluent in this country with not enough adversity in our lives. Or, you know, some people are. How else would they have time to worry about such bullshit?

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[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

far too affluent in this country with not enough adversity in our lives. Or, you know, some people are. How else would they have time to worry about such bullshit
I can't go to look at the news or even go to facebook to read at my friends' groups without hearing firsthand about death and torture in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and then being deluged with stats about the threats to higher education and medical funding in Great Britain, Canada and the U.S., or the atomic/earthquake/tsunami crisis in Japan, deadly mudslides in Central America, etc. Obviously, however, all that is not what matters.
Noooo! It's some little boy with pink fucking toenails!!!
Thank you Faux News, for lifting the veil from eyes.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

They focus hard on the little things so they aren't forced to engage honestly about the big things as often. It's a distraction technique.