Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishA fire service has been accused of wasting time and resources after it took part in a project where firefighters painted their fingernails.Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service sparked a backlash after crews applied red nail varnish to support an initiative called Hard as Nails.The Stapleford fire station took part in the campaign last week, sharing images to social media where they were met with a barrage of criticism as well as some messages of support. The project was designed to ‘break down barriers’ by ‘challenging stereotypes, building empathy and redefining masculinity’.But one described it as ‘utterly embarrassing’ while another said: ‘A load of absolute woke nonsense. Another woman commented: ‘I’m all for talking about men’s mental health but seriously! What sort of picture are you trying to paint pretty sure the public don’t want to see this having a manicure whilst at work, no way.’A fourth added: ‘You can’t convince me that paying staff to get their nails painted on station is a good use of time and resources.’The fire service replied to one comment: ‘This is a positive initiative. It’s not taken up a huge amount of crew time and it’s about opening up conversations about allyship and ultimately, men supporting women’ Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service sparked a backlash after crews applied red nail varnish to support an initiative called Hard as Nails The initiative was met with a backlash. Some said it was ’embarrassing’, including what appeared to be an ex-firemanThey responded to another: ‘Interesting that all the people who have watched Adolescence recently are now talking about the importance of understanding this stuff, but when one of our small but mighty fire stations gets involved, uproar!’In a statement, a fire service spokesperson said: ‘Supporting the Hard As Nails initiative was a very small, but hopefully powerful, gesture and just one of many examples of the work we do with those in our communities.’We’re extremely proud of our team at Stapleford fire station who got involved in this.’Unfortunately, we did receive some negative feedback when we celebrated this work on our Facebook page.’This isn’t new for us, unfortunately, and we do understand that people have different views.’However, we are proud and passionate about making people safer right across the county, and that does look different now to how it did many years ago.’We did also receive some overwhelmingly positive feedback on this work, too, which outweighed some of the negativity and was nice to see.’Jeff Buck, 70, from Hard as Nails, told the BBC it was important to have debates about masculinity – particularly in the light of Netflix drama Adolescence.He added: ‘The whole purpose of Hard as Nails is to stimulate that debate, to get people talking, to have those conversations about masculinity, gender identity, all those things that need to be discussed.’It’s a nice antidote to all of that toxic masculinity, isn’t it?’Here were firefighters, who are some of the bravest men we’ve got in our society, who are quite happy to symbolically paint a nail and say, ‘Yes, I’m supporting this project.”It can be light-hearted but with a very serious message and a very serious purpose.’It really struck me that, when I was reading those messages, people probably didn’t really understand what it was about.’They [the firefighters] they weren’t having a manicure, they weren’t all sitting around, drinking cocktails and having a manicure.’They were doing something symbolic to show their support for a very important project.’
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