Is it wrong for guy to like pink?

I just don't know. Is it, really?

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I'm surprised Chewi isn't viewing this thread.


No, not really.

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You can like whatever color you want. Whoever objects to you liking that color because of whatever reason, which commonly is that it is "gay" for a guy to like pink, can honestly go get hit by a car for all the world cares.

Of course not. I believe our society, especially the younger generation, is throwing out the old gender stereotypes and making it easier for people to just be themselves.

It really isn't. I used to love pink back in elementary school but I got made fun of because it allegedly made me gay. Such a terrible social stigma.

EDIT: Didn't proofread and made a dire mistake in my post.

http://blogs.mcall.com/parents/2011/04/so-whats-wrong-with-a-boy-liking-pink.html



hahahaahaha damn what a hyperbole

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Well, we are talking about Faux News, right?

Is all you need to know about this guy's credentials.

nothing's wrong with it.

It's only because of some people that makes a man who likes pink color lloks weird.

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http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c305/sweet_chin/photo0343.jpg

Sure, laugh all you want because it's pink. But this baby's got hardware you won't find on your monotonous, black, single design ASUS laptops with Win7 Home Basic!

/end boast

So I used to own a fuchsia pink shirt (extra-curricular club,color-coding) that I wear every friday. My male classmates would always make fun of me. A teacher also wearing a pink shirt stepped inside the classroom, and told my classmates that color does not define what a boy or a girl is. And everyone fell silent.

/end story

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@OP post: it's 2011, do you really need to ask?

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In some countries, including Japan, pink was considered a very masculine color until as late as the 1980's.

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Article claims that (before 1890) the tendency was gender neutral colors, like white for boys and girls... Here's the rest of the article quoted. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2831/was-pink-originally-the-color-for-boys-and-blue-for-girls

From the 1890s onward, boys' and girls' clothing styles started to diverge, with boys dressed in trousers or knickers at progressively earlier ages. Jo Paoletti of the University of Maryland, a longtime specialist on the topic, reviewed more than 500 descriptions and images of children's clothing appearing in print between 1890 and 1920 and notes a rapid "masculinization" of boys' wear, for reasons that remain obscure.

As part of this differentiation, there seems to have been an effort to establish characteristic colors for girls and boys. But it took decades to develop a consensus on what those colors were. For years one camp claimed pink was the boys' color and blue the girls'. A 1905 Times article said so, and Parents magazine was still saying it as late as 1939. Why pink for boys? Some argued that pink was a close relative of red, which was seen as a fiery, manly color. Others traced the association of blue with girls to the frequent depiction of the Virgin Mary in blue.

I’m not convinced, however, that there was ever a consensus that pink was for boys and blue was for girls. On the contrary, indications are the two colors were used interchangeably until World War II. Examples of pink as a mark of the feminine aren't hard to come by, one of the cruder being the use of a pink triangle to identify homosexuals in Nazi prison camps. After the war the tide shifted permanently in favor of blue as a boy's color. In 1948, royal-watchers reported Princess Elizabeth was obviously expecting a boy, since a temporary nursery set up in Buckingham Palace was gaily trimmed with blue satin bows. By 1959 the infantwear buyer for one department store was telling the Times, "A mother will allow her girl to wear blue, but daddy will never permit his son to wear pink."

How did pink get ghettoized as a girls' color? Nobody really knows. Professor Paoletti thinks the choice was largely arbitrary, but others credit innate biological tendencies. Research on color preference in monkeys has shown females prefer warmer colors like pink and red — supposedly an infant primate's pink face brings out its mother's nurturing instincts. A color preference study of Caucasian and Chinese men and women showed both Caucasian and Chinese women strongly preferred red and pink, while Caucasian men strongly preferred blue and green. However, the Chinese men showed a broader range, with many picking red and pink — possibly because in China red is considered lucky. To me that suggests the biology argument is pretty weak. Sure, my favorite color is blue. But it's entirely possible I say that because I was always told I should.

Another article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-Start-Wearing-Pink.html?c=y&page=1

So like whatever colors you like, but don't touch another man's junk.

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I like Pink, she's cool.

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That is the best response, Ryan.

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i have a bright pink shirt which i enjoy wearing.
i want a pink beanie to go with it

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I don't see anything wrong with liking pink, it's just a color. We have enough stereotypes in our society, right?

I say it's wrong to like a color for the wrong reasons. A guy to like to pink because it "proves his comfortable masculinity" is just stupid. Like a color cuz you like. That's all there is.

I don't know if you're trying to be funny, but this site is open to all people regardless of their sexual orientation.

I touch another mans junk on a nightly basis, and am not particularly fond of pink.