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I consider myself to be a fairly open-minded person. I practically leak.

But I'm surprised at my animosity toward the color pink. I mean, it's just a color. But don't let it near me!

Am I the only one passionate about pink?

Couldn't care either way.

If I like a tee shirt and its pink then it doesn't make a diff to me what so ever!

My fav pink is hott pink though :)

Jay

i don't mind pink, but i prefer, green, blue purple and brown

I am all about pink, but then again I am a woman.

It is funny that before WWII, pink was for boys and blue for girls.  Then it changed.  Never have found out why.

I am told that in Canada in order to hunt Moose, you are required to wear pink.


Janet

pink is ok in small doses

like I have a pink husband(one of those pillows that prop you up)

and I used to have a pink phone, but now I have a new skin for my phone

I don't really like pink, but I can like it in small doses, like I said

I'm good for a (very) light shade of pink, otherwise it's gaudy to my eyes (and opinion)

It's a very cheerful and sweet colour. I like it and I think of cotton candy when i see it.  I wouldn't wear a pink suit for a business meeting or walk around the streets with a pink handbag though. 

yeeeah no...
I'd rather not

I absolutely love pink, probably my favorite color. I'm passionate about it in the opposite way. My entire bedroom and bathroom are decorated in white and pink and I wear it often. I even have 2 pair of pink Converse tennis shoes (with pink laces) and yes, my cell phone is pink too lol

Pink is the official color of Breast Cancer Awareness  :icon_chick: Plus I just like it.

Have You ever seen pink and orange coral? Breath taking

I tend to avoid it in my own posessions. Social conditioning, I suppose... though it really depends on the item itself... one of my favourite t-shirts is pink, but I love it purely because of the design on it (a load of Japanese writing and a picture of a yellow chick). ;D Though according to a friend of mine the writing said something about chicken soup! :D Very worrying...

Virginia Marie: "Have You ever seen pink and orange coral? Breath taking" (Cannot figure out how to use the Quote option! ??? )

Pink and orange coral is gorgeous. I don't mind any of the colours of the rainbow in the natural world, it's just when it comes to artificial stuff I can actually choose the colour of, I would rather avoid it. (:

I have animosity toward pink, mainly because my mother tried to girl up my bedroom with that color. I liked black. I liked red. Instead I got magenta curtains (magenta!) and a stupid pink lamp with a fuzzy pink stuffed poodle on the base. You get the picture.

When we moved, I was told I could do up my new bedroom any way I wanted. Naturally, I chose red and black. She caved in and did up the room in red and white. Threw in a couple of black items for accent. Painted the walls yellow. YELLOW. Over my protests, of course. She was implacable. My father didn't intervene. The original gutless wonder. I suppose he thought it was a mother-daughter thing.

I feel that she reneged on the offer. Couldn't deal with her little butch kid. I'm sure she thought she had a budding lesbian on her hands. At fourteen, she said I was mature for not wanting to wear makeup. At sixteen, I was an anomaly for not wanting to.

And it all goes back to the stupid pink poodle...oh, and the idiotic paintings of big-eyed girls in crinolines...I mean, seriously. I couldn't sleep at night because of those paintings. They actually gave me nightmares.

So, no, I am not a big fan of pink.

Pink and black look good on me, and compliment my skintone and hair. I have to admit it makes me feel feminine too, even in private.

Pink is teh evil ;) I also think it's stereotypical, i.e. "oh, you're a girl so you must *love* pink." Um, no sorry. To me pink gets associated with frilly little girls and I have never been frilly. Ever. *shrug* I was and probably still am a tomboy. :)

My favorite colors are green, blue and purple. I believe I have one pink shirt and it's not a solid pink either. It has green and white stripes in it as well. For the record, I also don't do pastels or yellow either.

WR

I love pink, always have.  I love the combination of pink and black.  My bedroom is painted pink, my bed sheets are pink, and at least half of my clothes are pink lol. 

Perhaps overkill from years of being denied pink. 

I also have a pink cellphone.  I'm not out so when people start on it being pink I just tell them it was the same price as the same black phone and some of that money went to breast cancer research.  My SO's mother had breast cancer (she's a survivor)  and I do the walk every year.  So folks generally back off rather quickly.
I keep my ribbon pin on my jacket all the time so folks generally don't ask me too many questions.

However I love my pink polo - it's the most girly thing I have at the moment.  It's something I can get away with at work and such.   I like the "girls" colors - pink, purple, teal and lucky me they look good on me. :)

Every once and a while when I find them starring at me I just want to face them and say: Haven't you ever seen a man in a pink shirt before? 
Hell - John Travolta wore pink and no one ever questioned him!  Oh well.

Quote from: Virginia Marie on October 25, 2009, 07:39:57 PM
Pink is the official color of Breast Cancer Awareness  :icon_chick:

Yes. And I have breast cancer and am blessed with supportive friends and family. So

:eusa_dance: :eusa_clap: :icon_dance: Yay for Breast Cancer Awareness :icon_dance: :eusa_clap:  :eusa_dance:

but I still don't like pink

I love pink with a passion... lots of shades.  Some look terrible on clothes but others are killer.  I also like purple but that almost always looks terrible in fabric.

I also love black/white/grey/red, so...

What I really want is a baby pink sleeveless sweater-dress in my size... maybe if I learn how to knit!

I'm okay with pink. Not my favorite (green), but I don't abhor it or ambivalent about it. I don't wear pink, just doesn't do my complexion good. I'm not too fond of hot fluorescent pinks or neon pinks, but in measure they can have their place.

Pink coral, yeah, fabulous!

Breast Cancer Awareness pink, yeah and important as well.

"Stereotypical Stepford Wife, June Cleaver pink", umm, not so much.

Pink butt... umm... I'll just keep my mouth shut now.  :eusa_naughty:

Deanna

I LOVE the color pink but mostly wear it with something black. Black and Pink to me is the most awesome color combination in the Universe.  :)

Hmmm, I was just realizing that I don't really have allot of pink stuff.

Other than panties, a camisole nightie, and my breast cancer awareness tee, I can't think of much.

Oh, I think I might have a sweater and some leggings  :laugh:

I have a tailor made dark charcoal suit which I chose to have with a strong, vibrant pink silk lining (and waistcoat back) because it's a great contrast.  Looks fabulous!  Men can wear pink when it's done with some class.

Years ago, I read that pink walls were meant to soothe people, like mental patients. All it would do for me is make me pissed as hell...STOP TRYING TO SOOTHE ME!!!!!!!!!!

The pink room would work for awhile, but then they had to be transfered to the blue room

I love Pink and Grays mixed together.

Don't care too much, but I don't wanna be smothered in it.

I'm a guy and I can't help but follow conditioning.

Sometimes when I'm feeling bold, I'll wear pink nail polish. It doesn't look right with the clothes I wear though :P

Quote from: jamie lee on October 26, 2009, 09:07:44 PM
I love Pink and Grays mixed together.

Totally with Jamie,

I have several pink tops that go great with grey skirts. OK with black but stand out with grey (TME).

I also love blue, again often with with grey and/or black. Oops my avatar.

Do you reckon we are stereotyped as children into colour selection?

I didn't think so. I thought it was just phases of life, experiment with colours we like no matter what gender we may be.

As Janet said pink and blue use to be traditional colours for girls and boys. Anyone know why?

Are there new colours nowadays?

For example most university kids are non-conformist (so they say) and dress the same.

Cindy

Detest pink, it causes people to need those funny white coats with the buckles in back.

Quote from: Virginia Marie on October 26, 2009, 06:51:22 PM
The pink room would work for awhile, but then they had to be transfered to the blue room

Only if they were transguys...

Quote from: CindyJames on October 31, 2009, 05:28:19 AM
Totally with Jamie,

I have several pink tops that go great with grey skirts. OK with black but stand out with grey (TME).

I also love blue, again often with with grey and/or black. Oops my avatar.

Do you reckon we are stereotyped as children into colour selection?

I didn't think so. I thought it was just phases of life, experiment with colours we like no matter what gender we may be.

As Janet said pink and blue use to be traditional colours for girls and boys. Anyone know why?

Are there new colours nowadays?

For example most university kids are non-conformist (so they say) and dress the same.

Cindy

I love blues and grays too, I have quite a few blue tops. I have so many pinks, blues and grays that when I wanted a new blue or gray hoodie my wife told me enough ! so she went out and bought me a new women tan and white one !

As far as stereotyping I think their is some truth in that, as my 11 year old grandson wouldn't let us buy him a new jacket because it had 2 small pink stripes mixed in with some blue ones stating "Pink is for girls only"

Jamie

Quote from: BrandiOK on October 25, 2009, 09:28:17 PM


Perhaps overkill from years of being denied pink. 

There a lot of truth in that quote, I was 16years old when I started transition, first 16years of my life the color pink was alien, then when I started transition the color pink was introduced into my life and it was everywhere, it became my favorite color. My parents decorated my room in different shades of pink, I remember the walls painted in a pretty Barbie pink, the ceiling painted in a soft baby pink, when I opened my eyes every morning it was the first color Id see and the last color before I went to sleep. I remember my bedside locker and lamp where a beautiful barbie pink. My brother hated it, he thought it was over the top too sissy and girly, but I was very comfortable with pink, it made me feel feminine.
Nowadays my cellphone is pink, over half my clothes are pink, my computer laptop is a dell pink, at night my BF thinks I look like a princess in my pink nightie lol
Im not ashamed, I love pink.
p

It's a great color, it just has to be used properly. Conceivably, one could put together an all-pink room or an all-pink outfit, but you'd need half a dozen different shades to make it work nicely. And people will still dismiss it as gimmicky... (sigh)

I love the color. That being said, I still can't spend very long in the Barbie aisle at the Toys-R-Us.
All the hot pink starts to burn after a little while. Who doesn't think that though? ^_^

Iv read all the replys in this thread, both funny and interesting, but its kinda split, and Arch your so so funny, I love your sense of humour, but what is it about GUYS AND PINK.
I remember an incident with my brother years ago with the color pink lol my family had visitors to stay, but I was away on vacation, my brother had not moved out yet, so the only room available for him to sleep in was my room, now my room was very very pink, every shade of pink, Barbie pink, soft baby pink, minky pink, peachy pink, right down to the curtains on the windows which where actually white but had a pink trim frill tied back in hooks to the wall with pink bows. Anyway my brother refused to sleep in my ''girly pink room'' as he called it so slept on a cold hard floor downstairs for nearly a week, my Mam and I had a good laugh about it for years, Im sure he got a sore back out of it, what a sacriffice to make, choose to suffer back pain than sleep in pink, we girls don't have a hang up on blues, but what is it about GUYS AND PINK.

P

Quote from: pretty pauline on November 07, 2009, 10:22:25 AM
Anyway my brother refused to sleep in my ''girly pink room'' as he called it so slept on a cold hard floor downstairs for nearly a week, my Mam and I had a good laugh about it for years, Im sure he got a sore back out of it, what a sacriffice to make, choose to suffer back pain than sleep in pink, we girls don't have a hang up on blues, but what is it about GUYS AND PINK.

P

Wow that's some serious hatred just for a small band of the visible light color spectrum.  :P
I don't get the anti-pink thing.   But as I said I love the "girly" colors anyway. 

A while ago I asked a friend why he was against pink.  He said it's a girls color.  I pointed out that his Vikings Jacket was purple and that's a "girls color" too.  He just shrugged and said "But it's not pink." 

Yeah, huge help that conversation was huh?

When I was a little kid (5 and under) pink was my favorite color.  Then I started to school and began to understand the social associations of the color pink and quickly learned to loathe it.  The only thing I now own in the color pink is a grey tie with pink elephants on it.

I think I saw those elephants chasing your cat the other night  :laugh:

I wonder if it's the same elephant that finewine has?

Cindy

 :icon_blah:  No..just...NO.  I refuse to have anything to do with the color pink. Heh my cismale fiancee loves pink...x.x

Quote from: Virginia Marie on November 08, 2009, 12:43:44 AM
I think I saw those elephants chasing your cat the other night  :laugh:

Well, that would certainly explain my cat's behavior.  ;)

pink doesn't bother me.

It's not one of my favourite colours though.

I like purple, and I don't care how effeminate it is.

Quote from: insanitylives on November 12, 2009, 08:25:26 PM
pink doesn't bother me.

It's not one of my favourite colours though.

I like purple, and I don't care how effeminate it is.

No worries ! PURPLE is also a fem color !  ;)

Um.
I'm a boy, jamie. (eh. it was probably posted before I figured out how to put an avatar/gender on..)

Like i said
Don't care how girly purple is. I like it (it was also the compromise for my room. Mom wanted pink, i wanted black)
Don't hate pink though.. I mean it's a color. Why hate? It can't hate back

I put up a pink curtain yesterday and I like the way it makes my house look with the sun backlighting it. It makes my skin look a lot more yumable too, oh where oh where are you mister becca eater?  :(

Quote from: heatherrose on November 14, 2009, 09:40:23 AM
In my other life, as a diesel truck mechanic, my BOSS who was a tree stump
of a man, with forearms as big as 4"x4" posts, stored his over $250,000 worth of
personal tools, in his custom built 10'x7'x4', $10,000, PURPLE, Matco "roll around"
toolchest. You don't need to make any excuses for liking PURPLE, Dude.

oh that is NICE.

I don't like pink.  Green's my favourite colour.

Most of the people I work with spray paint their tools so at the end of the day we can get them back. So I love the social conditioning deal, none of the girls would ever think of using 'pink' it's too 'girly' in a male dominated world where they are trying to not be considered 'just a girl.'  On the other hand, guys hate it with such a passion that that color on it will keep them from walking away with a $250 power-driver just because I spray painted it fluorescent hot pink.  It's also nice because I often work in the dark (yeah, moral and mental, but in this case I'm talking a physical darkness) it makes them easy to find with an LED light.

Pink tools.....Good Idea  ;)

Quote from: insanitylives on November 14, 2009, 09:22:10 AM
Um.
I'm a boy, jamie. (eh. it was probably posted before I figured out how to put an avatar/gender on..)

I'm so sorry  that's what I get for reading with out my glasses on !

Jamie

Quote from: tekla on November 14, 2009, 07:46:17 PM
Most of the people I work with spray paint their tools so at the end of the day we can get them back. So I love the social conditioning deal, none of the girls would ever think of using 'pink' it's too 'girly' in a male dominated world where they are trying to not be considered 'just a girl.'  On the other hand, guys hate it with such a passion that that color on it will keep them from walking away with a $250 power-driver just because I spray painted it fluorescent hot pink.  It's also nice because I often work in the dark (yeah, moral and mental, but in this case I'm talking a physical darkness) it makes them easy to find with an LED light.

Genius.

I like it. At least, I do when it's used in a visually pleasing manner. it's not my very favorite color, but I certainly have nothing against it. I don't really have something against any color-- as an artist, I find myself using so many colors so often that it's hard to hate any of them!

(Hot pink can be a little blinding in large doses, though, I have to admit. I'm more fond of pastel pink.)

I typically go with earthy tone and colors, but sometimes I just need wear pink.

Pink is for flowers and meat.


I still have nightmares about my drivers-ed teacher in the pink short-shorts....GAH!

It's funny.  When this poll came out, my answer was "Don't let it near me."  But just recently I've been starting to grow a little fond of it again.   Not in large doses, mind.  But as an accent color, it can be nice.

I'd rather not. Don't have a problem with it I just don't like it.

I like it in comination with grey too, although I seem to remember in the late 60's wanting to paint my bedroom dayglo pink and black. 8) Very Jefferson Airplane, however it was not allowed to fly!!

I love pink... Pretty much any shade of it will do. :D

This is the only pink shirt I own and the only one I'd ever wear. :P

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Pink is only my absolute favourite colour. lol.

I am completely addicted to the color pink; I have hot pink shirts, a hot pink jacket, pink tights, pink socks, pink pants, pink shoelaces... oh, and pink hair. Can't forget that.

It's a fave of mine, right up there with blues and purples. My cell phone is pink, and I'm wearing a pink shirt right now.

I wish I had more pink things x.x

Only pink thing I have is a pair of pink girly socks I stole from the laundry room in my building >:-)

Wear them whenever my dad isn't home ;)

Quote from: Janet Lynn on October 25, 2009, 02:52:58 PMIt is funny that before WWII, pink was for boys and blue for girls.  Then it changed.  Never have found out why.

I am told that in Canada in order to hunt Moose, you are required to wear pink.

Are you kidding me, that's very interesting, I had no idea!

btw I hate pink... but I like moose

okay I replied on the first page of this thread but since its been resurrected I have to again.... I LOVE PINK!! I have pink skirts, pink dresses, pink sweaters, pink jackets, 2 pink cellphones, pink shoes, pink roses on my bed sheets, pillowcases, and comforter, pink curtains in my bedroom, and at the moment pink fingernails, toenails, and bellyring. Nah, it's not my favorite color in the world or nuthin' :laugh: (still, I don't have pink hair so I guess I'm not as passionate about it as some people lol)

I like the brighter pinks like magenta rather than the paler tones.

Pink is my third favorite color after green and then purple at the highest.

I like the color pink... But I like several other colors as well

Actually ORANGE tends to be one of my fav.s

It's the new pink...LOL

My favs are green and blue.

I like pink but purple is way better :3

This isn't me, But it is my nightie and cardigan... Yes, I gave into the pink...LOL

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Well, okay... It was the ORANGE lace trim that got to me... LOL

I love pink!  I also love fuchsia too!  I just wish I could wear more pink outside my little world.  I would love to get a pink netbook so that I can place all of my fem stuff into. :D

Quote from: brainiac on April 20, 2010, 12:42:13 PM
This is the only pink shirt I own and the only one I'd ever wear. :P

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OMG, where can I buy that shirt?

Love pink!  :icon_yes: It's totally stereotypical for a girl to like pink but I can't help what I love :). Pink with black, pink with teal, pink with orange, pink lacey things, pink pink pink!! Pink with black is my favorite though, like.. pink converse shoes with pink hair and a nice pair of black skinnies oh yeahhhh lol.

Well as a child i was very against pink, (despite it secretly being my second favourite colour) because i was trying my best to identify as male. So pink clothes, pink shoes and generally the colour pink were out. I did have a pink bedroom  :-\ not my choice unfortunatly.

Now i don't no i've got so used to not liking pink that i still don't.

EEEEEEE!!! I LOVE PINK!!!!

Pink is mah favorite colour and will always be :D I think I suit pinks! <3

I think of colors like I think of musical notes. None are beautiful alone, but in a particular context every color can be beautiful. Even that awful mustard brown you hate so much can look heavenly when it's the color of a sandstone cliff above a rust-red creek shaded by soft green cottonwoods under a deep blue desert sky dotted with puffy yet crisp white cumulus clouds.

Here are some ways I like the color pink:

The color of the middle section of summer thunderheads just after sunset, when their anvil tops are still white and their bases a deepening bluish-gray.

The flush of cheeks in a slopeside bar after a day of skiing.

Dew-covered paintbrush blossoms in a high alpine meadow.

The swirls on the inside of an oyster shell.

Raspberry sorbet on a sugar cone.

The sweater I'm wearing right now. (it's chilly today!)

I used to love, love, love pink when I was younger. But now, eh. Not so much, lol.

Lately I have come to like it a lot.  When i have the money,( and the courage) I will wear a pink motorcycle jacket with white piping and trim, I saw a while ago.

I don't much care for the color pink, but I don't really hate it either.

Love pink. <3