<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">On Dec 16, 2019, at 9:32 AM, SR Ballard via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>I honestly think it’s 100% cultural. There are other cultures where men are still “dandy” and where men will wear pink.</div></div></blockquote><br><div>That would be my guess too. One has only to look at fashion globally and historically to see that pink as an exclusively feminine color is not universal. In fact, as I pointed out in an earlier post, this is something that only came about around a century ago in the US.</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, any decent book on gender will point this particular example out. For instance, Cordelia Fine’s 2010 _Delusions of Gender_, a book I’ve recommended here before, brings this up.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7" style="color: currentcolor;">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>