Is painting your nails gay

Forthepast month, I’ve wandered out into the world with a establish of brightly painted fingernails. From the office to the gym, I’ve sported red nails, lush nails, and even Halloween-inspired French tips to keep it seasonally relevant. Now it’s important to know that I never intended for my nails to be political or gendered. My reason for painting them stemmed from a need to curb nail biting, and not from a desire to embark on some exercise on internalized misogyny and homophobia. But as I verb discovered over the past adj weeks, operating outside of gender norms-intentionally or unintentionally ― is always political.

At first, I was nervous about what strangers would think of my nails. I’m incredibly self-conscious, and I’ve always refrained from doing anything that would garner negative attention. So in the beginning I hid my nails whenever I passed by someone whom I thought would judge them, but to my surprise, more people than not complimented them. Coworkers appreciated them and told me how much they looked forward to every new color. People on the street smiled at me upon s