<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Dec 16, 2019, at 8:38 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 10:06 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Maybe it has something to do with the fact that common men will do absolutely everything to avoid appearing gay, in any way?</i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But that just begs the question, why isn't flamboyance associated with hetrosexual masculinity in humans as it is in most other species? And why is the color pink </font>particularly<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> unmasculine?</font></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Well, before 1900, pink wasn’t considered unmasculine or even feminine. See:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://jezebel.com/the-history-of-pink-for-girls-blue-for-boys-5790638">https://jezebel.com/the-history-of-pink-for-girls-blue-for-boys-5790638</a></div><div><br></div><div>I see much of this thread seems to be generalizing from people’s lives now, especially in the US. (was And it also seems that many males here are middle aged and probably not dressing metrosexually. Even in your own lives, haven’t you seen men’s fashion shift and change? Yeah, the pink thing seems locked in place for now, but I’m guessing adult straight men wearing leggings wasn’t a thing when you wear in college, right?)<br><br><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>