Alicia Keys Has 'Major Rant' About Expecting Children To Conform To Gender Norms

Nov 13, 2019 by apost team

Alicia Keys spoke about a personal experience she had with her four-year-old son at a nail salon. The experience made the singer rant about how gender norms already internalize at an early age with young children. 

Keys spoke about the experience on her social media page. She said she had taken her toddler Genesis to the nail salon with her, the small boy asked her if he could have the nail salon artist paint "each nail a different color." 

"And after she painted his nails, he looked at me and he said, 'Mommy, I don't want this on my nails,'" Keys said.

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However the 15-time Grammy winner didn't understand why her son had changed his mind. "I was like, 'Why? You were so sure. You were good,'" She said. "And he was like, 'People are not gonna like it.' Can you believe this? Four years old. He's 4! And he already understands the concept that someone's going to judge him because he chose rainbow colors on his nails."

The singer told her son that he shouldn't be concerned with if other people don't like it. She told him,  "lot of guys paint their nails" and that he should "stick with it."

"You chose it. You liked it. You do it. Who cares what anybody else says?" Keys remembers saying to Genesis. 

The 39-year-old continued her discussion on the matter saying that it is okay to embrace the masculine and feminine energies within oneself. She concluded her "major rant" as she called with asking her followers what they think about the gender norms. 

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