Pink and the Unspoken Rule
I was taught growing up men did not wear pink. It wasn’t so much a spoken commandment as it was an implied one. It was lumped together with other ‘forbidden’ things such as bracelets, necklaces, and earrings which ‘threatened one’s masculinity’. I remember a teacher once saying “…If I ever see my son wearing a bracelet, I will rip it off and hand him a football.” As a boy growing up who wasn’t effeminate, but who also wasn’t the most masculine guy in the class, it was comment
