Men Should NOT Wear Nail Color Because...

... ok, I don't have a good reason! Every reason I come up with ends up sounding ridiculous or worse. Like:

• Because girls wear polish. (OK... girls do a lot of things. Girls eat/drink/sleep/breathe.... girls also own property, go to college, work outside the home, vote, run for (and win) public office, drive cars, wear pants, get tattoos, shoot guns, drive trucks, fight in wars... (and that second list is all stuff that - one time or another - was considered "for men only"... and in every case, "for men only" was oppressive))
• Because people will think you're gay. (A... So what? They'll be wrong. Their thinking so doesn't make it so, and why would I care what a mistaken, prejudiced stranger thinks?  B... If I WAS gay, what would be wrong with that?)
• Because it's not manly, it's feminine. (A... It's just paint. There's nothing in the bottle that makes it feminine - no pixie dust, fairy dust, butterfly wing powder, ground unicorn horn, estrogen or cooties. Tattoo ink is also paint - and that form of body art was once "for men only"... B... If it WAS feminine - ladies - does "feminine" equal "bad"?
• Because men don't wear nail color. (Why not? "They don't, because they don't" is a circular argument, it proves nothing. "They don't because their friends don't" is closer to a reason - but that reason is FEAR, as in "They don't, because their friends don't... AND THEY FEAR stepping away from the safety of the herd and defying its assumptions." But, "masculinity" has never been about timidly cowering in the safety of the herd - a MAN is a bold, courageous, independent, even defiant creature - he blazes his own trail in the wilderness, he does not submit to arbitrary, unjustified societal expectations.
• Because men don't WANT to wear nail color. (Why not? Because they've been immersed in a society which imposes the expectation that they shouldn't want to... and they've never bothered to question the rules they live under, so they've never even considered whether they would want to..) - On an INDIVIDUAL basis, this is a perfectly valid reason for any man (or woman) to abstain, but even here, the disinterest is largely influenced by societal conditioning.
• Because the Bible says that men shouldn't wear women's things. (Again, what - besides a societal assumption - makes nail color "for women" and tattoos/pants etc.. (until recently) "for men"?)
• Because their faith prohibits decoration. (... if they're Amish... OK.)
• Because men are too smart to waste money on something frivolous like paint. (Really? A man can spend enough money "pimping his ride" - chrome rims, spoilers, ground effects, "kickin' bass" sound system, underbody neon, CUSTOM PAINT JOB - to buy a lifetime collection of nail color! If you tell your man you want to spend $4K on a boob job, he's thinking "How much MORE boob can she get for $5K"...  ;) )
• Because natural, crusty yellow toenails are attractive on men. (Ummm... NO!)
• Because women won't like men with nail color. (More of the "societal assumption", "follow the herd" thinking...)
• Because color on males is unnatural. (Really? Look at the peacock & peahen... Look at the lion... nature is full of examples of colorful males.)

Those are the "reasons" I can think of - and all of them fail. But, maybe I've missed something.

If you have a reason I haven't considered... or if you just want to write about how you feel about the idea of men wearing nail color - good or bad - go ahead and sound off! Every opinion is valid here, you have a right to your feelings and nobody has a right to say you're wrong for feeling however you feel. My feelings are tough (numb?) enough to withstand wearing hot pink polish to the beach, they won't be hurt by anything you might say here. So, if you're inspired to say ANYTHING.... let's hear it!