A dad in Missouri went viral on TikTok after posting about his son's experience wearing nail polish to school.
Doug Weaver, dad to 6-year-old Finley, said, "Over the weekend, my son wanted his nails painted so we painted them. And on Monday, he came home from school and told us that three of the kids in his class told him that painting your nails is for girls."
His video post, which he uploaded on October 26, has been viewed over 1 million times. In the video, he explains that his son knew exactly how to respond.
"He told those kids that nothing is just for boys or just for girls," the dad recalled in the recording.
"So I asked him, 'Well, what did they think of that?' He said that two of them didn't believe him, but one of them did believe him and he started telling one of the other ones that he also thinks that it's OK for boys to paint their nails," Weaver continued.
He went on to share some advice he gave his son that seems spot-on: "Sometimes the people that are the meanest talk the most and talk the loudest."
He explained that although that's sometimes the case, that doesn't mean they're right.
The 34-year-old art teacher spoke to Good Morning America about why he thought it was important to speak out about the issue on social media.
"I see a lot of people on TikTok talking about very similar topics and tackling the same ideas," he started.
"One of the reasons that I want to post this content is because I am a [cisgender, heterosexual] man."
"You don't hear these things talked about by cis het men nearly as much. It's a lot harder to find … I think because it's easy not to [talk about it]."
