Pink bar tape for men?

[topcat1]

Nothing wrong with pink

 

[phantasmagoriana]

Is that a Pinnacle? Looks just like my Arkose, with the exception of the bar tape.

 

[topcat1]

Is that a Pinnacle? Looks just like my Arkose, with the exception of the bar tape.

speechless!

 

[Tin Pot]

There are socially constructed rules of behaviour.

Are they constructed for a legitimate reason?

Are they objectively effective for the species?

Do they cause harm?

Does rejecting these rules achieve anything useful?

 

[numbnuts]

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2017/jan/20/the-week-in-menswear-pink

 

[DiddlyDodds]

No

 

[mickle]

There are socially constructed rules of behaviour.

Are they constructed for a legitimate reason?

Are they objectively effective for the species?

Do they cause harm?

Does rejecting these rules achieve anything useful?

Run that by me again...

 

[smutchin]

Do they cause harm?
Does rejecting these rules achieve anything useful?

Yes, and yes again.

 

[theclaud]

There are socially constructed rules of behaviour.

Are they constructed for a legitimate reason?

Are they objectively effective for the species?

Do they cause harm?

Does rejecting these rules achieve anything useful?

No
No
Yes
Yes
HTH.

 

[vickster]

Is that a Pinnacle? Looks just like my Arkose, with the exception of the bar tape.

It says Mercian on the frame, so probably not

 

[phantasmagoriana]

It says Mercian on the frame, so probably not

Oops, wasn't clear in my post - I meant the one in the OP! (I can tell the white one's a Mercian, and a very nice looking one too!)

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Courtesy of @casquetteurs

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Pink and Blue genderisation of colours only started in the 20th century, it was on radio 4 last week......

not quite what you heard. The colours swapped gender roles in the 19th C. Before then pink was a weak blood red, and thus manly, whilst blue was the colour of female virginity after the Virgin Mary.

 

[Tin Pot]

Run that by me again...

People get very worked up about gender and sex, on the whole it takes up a lot of emotive debate time for some people.

Pink being generally associated with girls, and light blue with boys is not the root of all evil. Sexual differentiation, and the social elements that go along with it, is an important part of maturing from child into adult.

If we were debating gender roles, equal pay, etc then there would be something of substance to argue, but colours associated with sexes does no harm whatsoever.

 

[jefmcg]

but colours associated with sexes does no harm whatsoever.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1128775?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

"Mothers of 32 firstborn infants aged 5-10 months were videotaped playing with a 6-month-old "actor baby." 2 female infants and 2 males appeared equally often as actor babies in sex-appropriate and cross-sex clothes and names. Sex-typed and sex-neutral toys were available. Initial toy choice varied with perceived sex of infant. Perceived boys were verbally encouraged to gross motor activity more often than perceived girls, but there were no significant differences in overall physical stimulation. However, mothers responded to the gross motor behavior of perceived boys with gross motor activity significantly more often. Results suggest early socialization in the direction of a masculine stereotype of activity and physical prowess."