Male users - do you wear pink?

[1995hoo]

I wear orange all the time, preferably with navy trousers or shorts, but UVA orange is a brighter shade than Tennessee or Texas orange. I even have an orange button-down business shirt with the V-Sabre logo over the pocket.

[US81]

Regarding the history of the color pink in society:

There was a neurobiology study in the 1950's examining the color preferences of adults. IIRC, blue was favored by both genders, males slightly tended to prefer greens and yellows, females tended to slightly prefer deeper blues and purples. Somehow the findings were misinterpreted as "proof" that girls are somehow innately predisposed to like pink.

[vtk]

However, I have learned over the years that purple is more synonymous with homosexuality compared to pink... 

Pink is gay, purple is bi. At least, that's what they mean on the bi pride flag, which also features blue for hetero.  Just like a single day can be five different "national ___ day"s and a couple of saints' days, a color can mean anything.

I don't own any pink clothing.  If I did, i'd probably wear it when going out on my days off, more than to work; I try to wear plain clothes (or Ohio State stuff, which doesn't draw attention here) to work.  I will not wear a combination of dark blue and bright yellow unless it's an HRC logo.

[Ren97]

Pink is gay, purple is bi. At least, that's what they mean on the bi pride flag, which also features blue for hetero.  Just like a single day can be five different "national ___ day"s and a couple of saints' days, a color can mean anything.

Here we go again.

I don't wear flashy colors personally, I prefer to blend in with the rest.

[1995hoo]

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I don't wear flashy colors personally, I prefer to blend in with the rest.

A pink shirt doesn't have to be a flashy color. Depends on the shade. Same thing applies to blue, for that matter.

[Alps]

In the spirit of the above statement, all talk about religion and sexuality has been purged. Let's stick to the question at hand, and remember that this is a ROADS forum first and foremost.

And my whole post that had more than those topics was purged? Right let's reiterate it...

Pink as a man's colour was lost about 90 years ago - Hitler's pink triangles may have killed it off, but I highly doubt that would have had an effect outside the German empire. In Britain it was women wearing it having been 'liberated' by all the men going off to fight in WW1 - they 'stole' the colour and then men didn't want it back, instead stealing blue off the ladies. The whole process took less than 10 years after the German invasion of Belgium on August 4 1914. I guess the US might have held on in WW2, as, after all, they were so late to join up in WW1, that there wasn't the time for them to conscript and send over nearly all their men before the Kaiser was defeated.

Unfortunately, parts of your post were tangled up in the mire. Also, I like the way you've differently worded and expanded on the historical aspect of it here.

[Alps]

Pink is gay, purple is bi. At least, that's what they mean on the bi pride flag, which also features blue for hetero.  Just like a single day can be five different "national ___ day"s and a couple of saints' days, a color can mean anything.

Here we go again.

I don't wear flashy colors personally, I prefer to blend in with the rest.

This isn't "here we go again" - vtk is simply clarifying how each color is applied as far as the flag goes. That's factual, straightforward, and this thread continues to be monitored.

[Brandon]

I was wondering, for the male users here, do you wear pink?

No.  I'm fairly pink (skinned) as it is with blond hair that borders on reddish.  Colors that contrast nicely with that tend to work better on me.  Hence, I trend toward blues, greens, some reds, and grays.  However, I will never be caught dead wearing blue with yellow (UM colors).

[JMoses24]

I own only one pink shirt -- and it has a logo for the roller derby team I support, made when one of the members of the team was battling breast cancer.

I do own other shirts that have pink on them.

In short, I have no problem wearing pink.

[Scott5114]

I wouldn't have a problem with wearing pink, but I simply don't have any pink clothing in my wardrobe. I tend toward cool or neutral colors: lots of greens, blues, and grays. About the only warm color that I wear regularly is red.

[formulanone]

I tend to avoid orange (Tennessee) and red (Louisville), although I do own or have owned shirts of those colors. I've worn purple before and like it.

I usually don't refuse to wear a shirt because it features the colors of a team I hate except for burnt orange.

I don't even consciously avoid the colors of a team I don't like, if they look good, then I don't really care...unless you're going to a game in person or party.

[realjd]

real men wear pink.

No, real men wear what they like regardless of color.

[agentsteel53]

I do not wear clothes.

[Brandon]

I do not wear clothes.

OK, Lord Godiva. 

[Laura]

Note to self: Mike has no pink clothing. Fix this immediately.

[6a]

I don't currently have anything pink but that's simply because I haven't found a shirt I like that contains pink. I tend to go more for the pattern than the color, anyway.




Eh, well I guess a couple of those have *some* pink but it's not a defining color of any of them.

[Doctor Whom]

I don't wear flashy colors personally, I prefer to blend in with the rest.

Whether you blend in depends on the crowd into which you're trying to blend.  Clothing that would let you blend in if you were in Manhattan would make you stand out if you were in a blue-collar town in Virginia.  Um, or so I've been told.

[bugo]

I don't wear flashy colors personally, I prefer to blend in with the rest.

Whether you blend in depends on the crowd into which you're trying to blend.  Clothing that would let you blend in if you were in Manhattan would make you stand out if you were in a blue-collar town in Virginia.  Um, or so I've been told.

You wouldn't be out of place with a T shirt and blue jeans in the city or in the country.