{"id":2150,"date":"2005-04-14T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2018-07-02T11:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:32:38","slug":"2150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/14\/2150\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Men Aren’t Afraid To Wear Pink"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone asserts: "Pretty (cool!) in pink<\/a>", which not only offers a bright shirt with the caption Tough Guys Wear Pink<\/i>, but also asserts:<\/p>\n

What do baby blankets, bridesmaids, hip-hop artists and skaters have in common?<\/p>\n

Pink!<\/p>\n

In case you haven’t left the house or turned on MTV in the past 12 months, pink is hot for guys. And girls are hot for guys in pink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reminds me of my grandmother’s second wedding. I was an usher, blushing with the responsibility at 19. The wedding colors included pink, and the dictum would indicate I would wear a pink shirt. Acourse, as a poor boy, I didn’t own any pink shirts and didn’t have the fiscal wherewithall to readily acquire one. Besides, I don’t like pink. So I said I’d wear a white shirt, of which I had plenty because in those days, you damn kids, grocery store baggers wore slacks, white shirts, and ties<\/i>.<\/p>\n

“Real men aren’t afraid to wear pink,” my stepmother manipulated.<\/p>\n

You see, friends, real men (of whom tough guys<\/i> are but a subset) don’t follow the dictations of fashion magazines and newspaper columns. Why, every time I look at the style section of FHM<\/i> or Playboy<\/i>, I smirk. The guys down at Tap City would beat the cosmopolitan out of me if I tried to real the suggested clothing among them, and I wouldn’t blame them; t-shirts should come free with proofs-of-purchase or should cost under $10 for a brand name advertisement or under $15 for saying something clever. They should not cost $30 to display a fashionplate of an upscale store and should never be worn under a sport coat unless you’re Billy Joel or Billy Jack circa 1979.<\/p>\n

You want to know what real men do? They do whatever they want, in a burly fashion.<\/p>\n

If they want to wear pink, no one says a word. And if they think pink clothes are fru-fru, they don’t wear them contrary to the prevailing winds of fashion. And they post blog entries about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone asserts: "Pretty (cool!) in pink", which not only offers a bright shirt with the caption Tough Guys Wear Pink, but also asserts: What do baby blankets, bridesmaids, hip-hop artists and skaters have in common? Pink! In case you haven’t left the house or turned on MTV in the past 12 months, pink is hot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20304,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/20304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}