Dad Wears a Skirt So His Son Will Feel Strong Enough To Do So As Well

September 1st, 2012 § 0 comments

Image orig­i­nally pub­lished in Emma Magazine.

I saw this story by Piper Weiss on Yahoo and it is heart­warm­ing and inspiring:

[Nils] Pick­ert never minded that his son liked dress­ing in lit­tle girl’s clothes, but when his fam­ily moved from West Berlin to a small south­ern town in Ger­many, he learned that other peo­ple did. In fact, it became a “town wide issue,” accord­ing to Pick­ert, whose essay was trans­lated by Tum­blr user steegesch­noe­ber.

A new school didn’t make life any eas­ier for his young son. Shortly after his first day, he stopped rev­el­ing in his own tastes and Pick­ert wor­ried about the dam­age it could wreak on his self-confidence. “I didn’t want to talk my son into not wear­ing dresses and skirts,” Pick­ert explained. “He didn’t make friends doing that in Berlin… so 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.”

I really think that speaks for itself. You should go read the arti­cle.

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