German Dad Helps Son By Wearing a Skirt

"Nils Pickert's 5-year-old son likes wearing dresses. If anyone thinks that's odd they can take it up with Nils. He's the guy in the skirt. The German dad has become a role model not only for his son, but for parents around the world, after a photograph of the pair holding hands in red skirts spread across the internet. "Yes, I'm one of those dads, that tries to raise their children equal," he explained in an essay published alongside the photo in Emma, a German feminist magazine. 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...".* Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room) discuss on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Piper Weiss on Yahoo: http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/dad-...

Photo courtesy of Emma Magazine: http://www.emma.de/ressorts/artikel/k...

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[Eric Chu]

Why hello there, militantly uninformed heteronormative scumbag.

People like you are the reason transgendered and trans/intersex people kill themselves. Do us all and yourself a favor and educate yourself before opening your hateful, ignorant, bigoted mouth, won't you? Or don't. The choice is your's. Not that you could even understand half the words of what follows: on DOT ted DOT com/Dreger

You know what to do with that url, I hope. Or I can spell it out for you. Fuckwit.

[MaLoDe1975]

WEST berlin???? is the cold war still on? didnt us news cover its over?

[pureredskill]

I have no idea why, I thought the exact same thing.

[retrospect1983]

please share your words with the catholic church. those "men" have been wearing dresses for eons.

[retrospect1983]

please try to convince the Catholic Church of this ... perhaps they will dispose of all those dresses the men wear.

[swirlingmass]

trying to imagine cenk in a dress, i reckon it would be one of those flowery long skirted dresses that grannies use as their sunday best. I don't know why.

[rubiconsound]

What's the chick in the back doing? Facebook? Working a customer service line?

[Riley Chan]

Back in biblical times men wore sarongs...

[Loki Laufeyson]

Deal*. >:I

[Loki Laufeyson]

Oh, no.

Actually, I got that line from a science article. Though, yes, Wikipedia has it included in theirs.

There are tons of ignorant people I have to do with on a daily basis. Coming from a pious Christian family, it puts even more pressure on me. Yes - sometimes I wish I was not this way. It would definitely be easier. I tried to change it, truly. But alas... 'Tis not possible.

You can leave, if you wish... But I implore you to do more research on the matter. Don't become -them-.

[Jester JLay]

I appreciate you looking into the research yourself, and I honestly don't mean this as an insult, but quoting from a Wikipedia article isn't a good source to back up an argument. Look, I know this is a touchy subject and one that you personally have different beliefs in, so I will bow out. I wish you all the best.

[Loki Laufeyson]

Read this: en.wikipedia(.)org/wiki/Homose­xuality