Nailing it

In Seconde Life nail polish on male avatars is as controversial as chopping down a tree, putting it indoors and festively decorating it around Christmas time. It’s about as shocking as making the statement that the pope wears a lot of white. For some reason however, a man wearing nail polish in real life, risks being verbally or even physically attacked for it. So go ahead and call me flipping woke for saying that attacking people for something as silly as a bit of colour on their nails IS. NOT. OK. If I went around doing that to every person I see with questionable taste, I’d never shut up and be throwing punches left, right and center all day long every day.

You are welcome to your opinion. You can think whatever the hell you want, but do you really think when people came up with the concept of “freedom of speech”, they meant that whenever you see someone who’s physical appearance is not inline with your tunnel vision of what is “normal”, you’re allowed to shout verbal abuse at this person and even physically assault them? I believe most people are being disingenuous when they’re calling on freedom of speech after displaying such heinous behavior, because they simply have no decent defence for being an indecent person. Deep down they have a sense that the laws pertaining to freedom of speech were put in place for a much more useful purpose than to give them the right to spout their bigoted opinion like a hippo taking a dump, pebble dashing society with their load of shit.

It takes so little effort to look up the history of nail polish and find that “ironically” originally it was actually worn by men. Fekking strapping warriors, no less. At around 3200 B.C. (probably on a Tuesday) Babylonian warriors would paint their nails with kohl to intimidate their enemies. So maybe that’s why men wearing nail polish today are getting attacked. Some people are feeling very intimidated by the pretty nails and choose to go down the preemptive attack route, just to be on the safe side.

Step away from the violence and the somewhat crude kohl treatment of the Babelonians and take a look at the history of nail polish in China. You’ll see that the Chinese aristocracy, regardless of gender, was mixing up beeswax, gelatin and egg white, dyed with orchids or roses and leaving this goop on their nails for some hours until it left a stain. On the down side, you had to be rich to be even allowed to colour your nails in that society. It was considered a crime for peasants to have the audacity to colour their nails.

I tell you what else grinds my gears! The assumptions that get made about people’s sexuality based on what they choose to wear. A while ago I saw a clip on Facebook by a TV presenter telling us that next time you watch his show, you may notice he’ll be wearing nail polish. He did this because a male friend of his was attacked simply for having some colour on his nails. I don’t read comments myself, but I have this friend who annoyingly insists on nagging about people’s comments every now and again… with screenshots! Anywhoo, there was this one comment that stated “I have no problem with people being homosexual, I’m just tired of this woke shit being rammed down my throat.” WTF is up with people using that expression all the time? The clip was pleasant and short, with not a hint of aggression. The video still image clearly showed his nails. The title made pretty clear this was going to be, to put it in the commenter’s words: “woke shit”. Obviously one had to click it, to watch it. So how is that ramming it down their throats? You cannot willingly click and watch shit and then accuse people of forcing upon you, you festering sack of puss! Furthermore, at no point the clip mentioned sexual orientation. The commenter just made the assumption: nail polish on a man? It must be a homo. Must it be? Tell it to the ghosts of Kurt Cobain, David Bowie and a whole army of Babylonian warriors you ignorant shmucks.

At this point Billy jumps of his soap box and presents you with the credits for his look…

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