2/ It is almost - but not absolutely exclusively - a female thing. (I believe that Afghani men use a type of nail polish in between being afianced and marriage). This is how signals work: there is cultural variation around a functional / evolutionary core.
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3/ The bright pink and red colors of lipstick, nailpolish, etc. are plausibly linked to the color of mucus membranes, chaining off of primate interest in seeing exposed female genitals. It's no surprise that christian louboutin red-bottom shoes were (a) shocking, (b) popular
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4/ The midwit posture of "oh, thing X is just thing X; there's no context or reason behind it, therefore whoever says that Y should not X is just silly / stupid" is rankest idiocy. Prove it. Go grow yourself a toothbrush mustache.pic.twitter.com/w9m5auNn9V
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5/ This is how signals work: they assume both a base biological reality AND a contingent cultural reality. And the progs KNOW THIS. That's WHY they want boys to wear nail polish, and not - say - t-shirts with red and gray diagonal stripes.
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Those also are status signals. Manicured nails show that you're a high-class person who doesn't have to do manual labor that can mess up the nails. Heels are also not conducive to actually getting work done.
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Susan Brownmiller wrote extensively about this in "Femininity". Almost everything considered "feminine" is status-signaling. Tight-fitting dresses, long hair, big hoop earrings, pretty much anything we call "feminine" is saying "I have SERVANTS to do my physical labor.".
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In other times, NobleMEN wore red-heeled shoes (prob. where the term well-heeled originated) as well as rouge, paint, etc to hide pallor and pox scars. It’s all about attracting sexual partners - and little kids shouldn’t be doing any of it.
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In the past about 100 years ago, red was for boys because it was a sign of masculinity.
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