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Yesterday I decided to wear a pink colored shirt to work and I QUICKLY
learned how ignorant the human mind can be. My co-worker (God bless her
heart) decided to ask me a personal question. And her question to me was
why I would wear a PINK colored shirt? My response was because I
can…she then said that she doesn’t think a man should wear a shirt this color
and if he does then he more than likely is GAY. When she said that I
laughed because her logic was SO off center; how sad is that this way
of thinking exist in this world huh? PITY…Then she proceeded to question MY
sexuality by asking if I am gay, to which I asked her if she was interested? To
which she said that she wasn’t because she doesn’t date within the working
environment (NOT because she is a married woman), but because she doesn’t
believe in cooking AND taking a dump in the same place. I TOTALLY agree
with her on that sentiment; however I can’t help think how an article of
clothing would suggest that I am a HOMOSEXUAL? So does this mean that MASCULINITY
≠ A PINKSHIRT?
This proved to me that in today’s society we are WAY TOO
consumed with MASCULINITY. I thought that ONLY beauty was in the
eye of the beholder, I didn’t know that article of clothing made its way in
there as well? This belief, this notion is NOTHING more than a perception
that has NO result in anything other than our frames of reference. Hence
the ENTIRE GENTRIFICATION comes down to image and NOTHING else?
When are we going to learn that masculinity AND femininity are
nothing more than a facade? I might hesitate to agree that sometimes we gay men and women causes
persons like her to make assumptions about gender. I guess
@ the end of the day I can say that she has PERFECTLY characterized
what masculinity isn’t…Her take on what a man is about would be
funny it weren’t SO scary. This lady has a son AND GOD only
knows what he’ll grow to be, I can only hope that he doesn’t try to wear a pink
shirt because it is OBVIOUS that his mother is wounded because she
thinks that masculinity is something that a man wears.
I love color, always have and never did give a damn what anyone thought. Dont wear pink because I dont like pink... gimme lotsa violet, purple, yellow, all the rainbow colors... I wear every one, but not all at the same time. :>)~ I was an art student back in the day and nobody ever questioned my sexuality because of my bold use of color. (except me)LOL
ReplyDeleteI would LOVE to see you in a rainbow colored shirt.
DeleteGirl... It's just a color. I could see if it was like, a big floppy Mandingo dick on the front or something. Good golly... If she want's to know your sexual orientation (which is none of her damn bidniss), she should just ask you instead of putting up some "men in pink" preface.
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IKR women here are something else son!
DeleteIf a man MUST wear clothes, he should be free to wear any color that he wants. A good naturist friend of mine, who is VERY hetero, wears pink all the time. His reason? It looks good against my dark skin and all the women notice me first.
ReplyDeleteDoes your co-worker wear red? Should you remind her of that stereotype? LOL!
AS always, great post my blogger brother!
She certainly should!
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