A pink Polo or button down I can do. Pink paint or decor in my home? No. Absolutely not.

Not buying any of it. Nope nope nope.

I love a pink shirt on a man! However not sure how I would feel about a man in a pink room....

if it's a thomas pink shirt maybe. but no to most.

I had a pink bedroom for a while. My hubby was fine with it, but then he doesn't care about anything I do to the house. And I love a man in a pink shirt, people look fabulous in pink. It makes everyone's skin shine.

not seeing this. Every one of those rooms looks great... for a single woman. Any man living in that space would have to entirely loose all man-points, and have to give up his man-card.

Room 6 could work, all the others I don't think so. And I like pink -- I've got several pink dress shirts and polos.

It's conditioning, not intrinsic color preference...if you need proof, go back a generation or two and witness all the manly-man Midcentury guys happily tooling around in pink cars and choosing pink kitchens and bathrooms. The color read as "optimistic" in the postwar, Ike-and-Mamie world, and so many guys had spent years in military brown and olive drab that they embraced pink. It lasted right up through the '60s, when earth tones took over. And there was a brief resurgence of pink on guys in the Miami Vice/Preppy '80s that ended up in decor too. It's only the last 20 years or so that pink has been more exclusively "female."

For what it's worth, I like pink on guys, and know plenty of guys who don't mind pink in the home, if it's done correctly (i.e., not like a third-grade girl's princess bedroom)!

I have pretty pink towels in the master bath but at my husbands sink I always put a more masculine color. He'd never go for any of these rooms.

Actually, in most place in the world through most of history, pink is more of a male, masculine colour and blue is used more for girls. Its only until the past about 200 years in the western world that this has changed.

"The people who were traditionally dressed in pink and called girls were boys. Pink was considered the traditional colour for boys and blue for girls in the 19th century. In 1927, there was a report about Princess Astrid of Belgium who had decorated her son's room pink, only for her to give birth to a daughter. Part of the reason why blue may be seen as the traditional colour for girls is because the Virgin Mary is dressed in blue. Right until the mid-15th century, all children were referred to as girls, boys were called "knave girls" and girls were called "gay girls". The word "boy" originally meant "servant"."

More information on this can be found at the following link, where I remember originally seeing information about this, goes into a lot more depth about the area.

With that said though, I have also recently painted a room pink and I am a man, it is also what I use to work in every day, it does however have one black wall though too and the pink is a very light colour.

People defining colours as a basis of their sexual orientation based on how they grew up and perceive the colour, relating colours to what they know only remind me of immature school kids that pick on other people for no reason at all but only because someone told them that their way is right.

I apologise for my bad spelling and grammar, it was a rushed post, I also forgot the link to what I was talking about:-
http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/qi/episodes/7/7/

"go back a generation or two and witness all the manly-man Midcentury guys happily tooling around in pink cars and choosing pink kitchens and bathrooms."

Those cars and kitchens weren't purchased by men for themselves - They were purchased by men for their wives.

Back then, American men didn't wear pink EVER - something about insecurity in their own masculinity I guess...
...but most American men didn't even wear blue shirts with their suits either - it was white all the way.

Gotta disagree...quite a few of them actually *did* wear pink (usually in combination with white, gray and black). I've got at least one photo of my dad wearing a pink shirt under a black sport coat back in the day, and he's a tattooed, badass American Navy Vet - not at all insecure about his masculinity!

Maybe it wasn't traditional office wear, but for casual stuff, it definitely existed. You still see pieces pop up on occasion in vintage stores, though (due to age) they are more rare than they used to be. Still quite a few pink/black, pink/gray and pink/brown ties, though! Even Elvis was in on it!

http://www.elvispresleynews.com/images/ElvisFashion-PinkShirt.jpg

Pink, in its paler iterations, is a fabulous neutral for interiors, and sadly underused. And a man in a pink shirt is HOT. No matter what side of the fence he is on, it means he is totally confident in his sexuality.

I will never forget the spectacular pink apartment owned by a very hot Italian guy I was hanging out with when I was visiting Rome in 1989. He had painted all the narrow walls in a neon glossy hot pinks and one very neon purple. All the other walls were white. The neon pinks looked electric against the other white walls. The ceiling were super high and the floors dark wood. There was some great furniture including infamous Tongo sofa.
It was one sexy apartment and as he was.

I do like love a good crisp pink button down oxford shirt worn casually with jeans on some men.

Glad some commenters have set this silly notion straight that pink = feminine, now and forever. How utterly myopic! And how fragile American masculinity must be that it can be taken down by nothing but color (which, as has been pointed out, has long been associated with men and blood).

@Vacationland--

I stand corrected - I guess I was thinking of office wear, not casual wear...

...tho if pix #3 doesn't scare off alot of guys who might be considering pink for their homes - I don't know what will!

I think what bothers me the most about the "pink isn't manly" comments are how they infringe on someone else's perspective of what it means to be a man. It particularly disheartened me when it came to Jame's Inside Man/Valspar redo. Here he was, thrilled with his new color and people were commenting about how it wasn't 'manly' enough.

I've seen this quite often with my husband and his father. Out of 4 boys, my husband's love of music (he played bass guitar for jazz band, tuba for the marching band) wasn't manly enough for dear old dad while the rest were tooling around on their skateboards and skipping class.

I worked with an attorney who used the "f" word to describe another attorney he was working with because of his 50's style hat and some very sharp clothing choices.

My point is, no one should denigrate anyone else for not matching up to their preconception of what it means to be a man. The man is #3 is totally all about the pink. Is he not a man?

P.S. #3 totally gives me hives but that guy is clearly working it.

ALL I KNOW IS THAT I WAS ON A PINK CRAZE S/S 2010...VERSACE,ETRO,T. PINK, CALVIN KLEIN,BURBERRY AND PAUL SMITH-IT JUST GOES W ALOT! I DO HAVE DEEP RICH OPULENT MAGENTA (REALLY MORE VIOLET)KITCHEN WALLS...STAINLESS STEEL ,DARK WALNUT/BLK CABINETRY,BLK GRANITE W OPALESCENT GLASS BACKSPLASH TILES-VERY SEXY ...TO ME ANYWAY.

Not judging, but re: "makes your skin look great", I dunno, the guy in room #3's skin is not so appealing. Of course, his room is neon. But I wonder if this is supposed to apply to all skin tones?

Echoing what a few comments have mentioned, until the middle of the 20th century, pink was seen as a "boy" color because it was considered a light hue of red. Similarly, for the last couple thousand years, purple was considered the color of royalty. Why have colors become so calcified as signifiers of gender and sexuality? I blame Mattel!

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I have pretty pink towels in the master bath but at my husbands sink I always put a more masculine color. He'd never go for any of these rooms.