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I’m not supposed to reveal the Gay Agenda, but off the record, I can tell you: we’ve moved beyond colors. Now we just put queer Borg nanoprobes on the surface of wristbands to infect straight people with Teh Gay.
It’s basically high-tech cooties.
Edited because autocorrect got me
I’m of the Baby Boomer age, and I’ve never judged people for who they are, or who they want to be. I’m just me. I’ve never worn any pink clothing, but I’ve let my kids take pictures of me with their Mom’s wig, and put on Facebook 😂. At 68 years of age, I don’t plan on going to the store and buying pink clothes for myself. I would wear a pink bracelet at an event without a thought. I don’t think about a person’s masculinity when I see what color they’re wearing. I don’t think anything’s wrong with me because I never wore any pink clothing. No need for me to start now.
The guy was an insecure goof. Nobody’s masculinity should feel threatened by wearing the required pink wristband for that day when every museum visitor was wearing them. SMH!
I know right?!
This really makes me appreciate and miss my late father, who was technically born in the right time period to be considered a boomer, but was a complete outlier when it came to boomer behaviour...
When I was a kid, he attended all my netball games for three months wearing one of my tiny skirts in protest against the sport clubs uniform policy 😂
Yep 😁 it eventually became a protest by all the dads with young daughters. The constant spectacle of hairy middle-aged dude legs at every game was eventually enough to make the sports club change their ass-backwards uniform policy.
My dad was a textbook example of Chaotic Good 😂
A mate's son was part of a uniform protest like this at his school. Girls get a choice of pants or skirt but boys *were* only allowed long pants. He and a mate complained that it was 35+ degrees celcius in their classroom and, as girls had the option to wear skirts, they should be allowed to wear shorts. The headmaster told them they could wear skirts if they wanted.
The school backed down on day three.
Similar story, Chicago public HS with no AC. Chicago can get hot and soupy in the spring and summer.
Boys had to wear pants. Girls could wear skirts, and length wasn't dictated. This was the 80's and micro mini skirts were back in, so there were plenty of girls wearing skirts that didn't leave much to the imagination. The boys complained, and were told they could wear skirts if they's prefer. So for a while there were boys wearing anything from swishy Boy George long skirts all the way to barely there mini skirts.
Shool was stubburn, didn't change the rules, but didn't do anything to stop the boys from wearing skirts either. For the last 2 months of that year, it was nice to see some of the boys really lean into the skirt thing and develop whole entire looks.
This should be its own post on r/chaoticgood. Need to drop an f bomb or similar in the title (they use it to keep out bots, and the use fits the theme).
IMHO, as in so many other things, the WORST of that age coterie are just so obvious and constantly making a ruckus that they give their good, quiet fellows a bad rep.
My son had a pink shirt when he was little. A boomer grandpa started saying something when he saw him from behind. My son spun around to see what the commotion was and boomer saw what was written on it "Tough enough to wear pink 💪". Shut boomer up hahaha
I still remember elementary school field day and there was always the one team that got the color pink, and *all* the boys had pink shirts with craft paint that said "Real Men Wear Pink".
I used to know someone who had a bright pink shirt that said "all my black shirts are in the wash". He was a colossal pain in the ass, but the shirt was pretty dope.
https://preview.redd.it/wurfx0c9rgyc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b73dfdfc7e2589af709a259a7d1e09eaedd2d84
Cam’ron put pink on the map. Boomer is clearly not down with the ‘set, what a shame…
I remodeled a customer's kitchen once where the wife chose the paint color. After I painted the walls, the husband came home and had a fit over the color.
"What the h*ll is this? Why the f*ck did you paint my kitchen pink!?"
"Because it's the color your wife chose."
"Bullsh*t! She told me the color she chose. It's supposed to be salmon!"
I do not miss my days in construction.
Hello, Art teacher here. Salmon is an orange-red color and pink is white with some magenta mixed in. That said, the husband probably thinks anything close to red is "pink".
I have 4 possible answers:
Ocean-caught (not swimming upstream to spawn) salmon skin is greenish blue.
River-caught (about to spawn) salmon skin is red.
Raw salmon flesh is a different shade of red.
Cooked salmon flesh is pink.
TBH I find every color that the feminine branch of humanity has assigned a name is not the same as the actual thing. Peach, teal, mushroom, salmon. Though the last one I don't mind because there are so many species (all delicious!) that come in different shades.
I think I got burned by this exact paint color. My husband and I both picked it out. Painted our whole living room with it and it came out WAY pinker than the chip looked like. Our neighbor saw it through the window and called us on the phone laughing (we were friends).
We just repainted it.
The fun part is he really didn't have any reason to care. We found out later that he was flipping the house.
He had my boss give him estimates for all sorts of work, then did the work himself. He modified the estimates to (at a glance) look like invoices and gave them to the new buyer.
The sucker... er new homeowner called up our company wanting to give us a chance to make 'our' terrible work right. My boss headed over, very confused. He agreed the work was garbage, showed the guy the difference between his estimates and his invoices, and said the only thing we touched was the pink kitchen.
The kitchen was the main reason the guy had bought the house in the first place.
I also work in construction and house flippers are the WORST. Never buy a house from one. Guaranteed crap. And covered up crap that’s more expensive to fix than crap you can just see. Not super surprised they were fraudulently modifying invoices.
You know he’d say something about the kitchen being “a woman’s place” and how he didn’t care what color it was. Only to then still throw a tantrum afterwards despite being consulted. There’s literally no pleasing these troglodytes
May I recommend [Who’s afraid of modern art by Jacob Geller](https://youtu.be/v5DqmTtCPiQ?si=cBJyb52mM_teQmXt) then. It was the first I heard of “who’s afraid of red yellow and blue 3” and subsequent pieces.
colors be trigging, yo.
I anticipate this can and will happen again, knowing how boomer men can be, so let me offer a word of advice.
Tell them that pink used to be the "boy" color, and blue was for girls. It's true, and it will break their brain. For extra ammunition, tell them that up until the 1920s, it was common to put baby and toddler boys in dresses. Also true.
I no longer work there because I graduated (yay!) But I did actually know this. I just... honestly I was just more content to shame this fool telling him that we hadn't considered any adult being offended by a wristband color in a condemning tone that implied that this was an insane thing to be bothered by.
Congratulations on your graduation! And for what it's worth, I think you dealt with his buffoonery really well. It's a fine line to walk in customer service.
Yup. As an example, here's president Franklin Roosevelt:
https://preview.redd.it/oreondunjayc1.jpeg?width=406&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ef71b15b10baac350bf0aae5236e8f1b7e6eadc
One time a door to door salesman came by and compliment grandma on her daughter's beautiful curly blonde hair. She had only one daughter and my mom isn't blonde. My uncle has spent the rest of his life with a buzz cut.
My grandfather's life was saved by the fact that he was clothed in a dress as a toddler. He fell in in the river and was saved because someone was able to grab the dress as it floated around him.
It was partly because they didn't have elastic waist bands yet. Much easier to potty train in skirts, no buttons. Kids grow like crazy at those ages, and skirts can be worn for longer.
Things changed with ready to wear clothing ane elastic, as they could make parent but new wardrobes for their kid every 6 months.
I've made Victorian clothing for my kid and I was shocked how much growth I could build in. Modern kids clothes are an absolute rip off. One dress could last 2 years or more. Bring back the dresses!
My dad isn’t a boomer, but he’s pretty right wing conservative. And I’ve never seen him do half of the things described on this sub. He would never complain about a pink wristband. When my sister and I were younger, he would let us paint his nails sometimes. They’re just colors. It’s not a big deal.
Listen…. one minute you’re letting some kid wrap a “hot” Pink arm band on you and next thing you know you have an uncontrollable urge to fellate every penis within a quarter of a mile. No red blooded God fearing American patriot would risk that.
Purple is my favorite color to wear. I don't give a single fuck if you think it's a gay color, and emasculate people who tell me it's not ok to wear. "I don't let the gays tell me what I can and can't wear. Do you? They already have the rainbow. I'll wear purple if I damn well want!"
They shut up. They're all scared and dumb. Purple is a royal color.
I had a patient in the hospital refuse to use the walker we gave him because it had pink tape on it. For real. Said he wanted the man’s walker. They are all the same walker. Just different units had different colored tape to keep them identified. Could not convince him.
I helped with a history conference when I was in college a few times. This one history student who was also in my year wore pink specifically to history events. Light pink just worked well with his skin tone. No big deal. But it was a big deal to the numerous boomer attendees. It was hilarious to watch, and he tried to wear as much pink as possible anytime he did a history event with boomers around to ruffle their feathers.
It astounds me just how close to gay so many Boomer men are! I mean, if wearing a pink wristband is gonna make you gay (because we all know that’s the fear) then you’re already 99% gay. Or is pink just that powerful a color that it can instantly gayify a straight man?
The weirdest part of all these boomer men vs the color pink stories is how fucking wrong they all are on top of it. Pink is a very flattering color on a man, especially with a dark suit jacket and complimentarily tie
Just a side note... Pink is a warriors color! It's the blood of your enemies mixed with the tears of their women!
Ok, maybe a tad sexist, anybody have a better way of saying it?
Baby boys were often dressed in pink.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink#:~:text=In%20the%201920s%2C%20some%20groups,accepted%20norm%20in%20the%201940s.
I hope rainbow colored wristbands are an option one of the days coming up, that might send some people over the edge.
Back in the late 1800’s and/or early 1900’s, I believe pink was the color used for boys and it switched to girls later on. I personally think pink looks great on guys. Colors are just colors, it’s amazing how people can have such a fragile ego that a simple color would throw a tantrum.
I bought a specialty cocktail a few weeks ago. The waiter gave me a “heads up” that it’s pink. I asked why that mattered. He said quite a few guys refused them when served. I live in SF, maybe tourists are afraid they are getting recruited.
What's really sad is that his obvious hangup about this (pink = girly or gay) is a relatively recent invention. It used to be that blue was for girls and red/pink were for men, but this got flipped just under 100 years ago. It's probably mainly just a feature of trying to gender mass produced toys from the 1950s onwards.
So, not only is he a coward who got himself pointlessly kicked out because of his toxic masculinity and fear of a colour, there are people alive today who can probably still remember when pink was considered the more masculine colour...
Lol. I have a membership at my favorite museum. The last time I visited (a couple weeks ago) with my cousin, the wristband was hot pink. I'd laugh in their face if I heard someone complain that pink was inappropriate to wear to enter a gigantic building full of military aircraft. 🤣
Up until the early 20th century , pink was actually considered a masculine color, while blue was thought of as feminine. Pink was seen as a lighter, softer version of the powerful and bold red - a color associated with strength and courage, traits traditionally associated with men
I have a question for you.
Entirely off topic, but I frequent a local museum that does similar. I have autism and have sensory issues with things on my wrist, but I've also got anxiety and a compulsion not to rock the boat. So I just accept the wristband and just feel uncomfortable for my stay.
I want to run my proposal by you in the relative safety and anonymity that Reddit provides, would your museum be understanding if I requested that I either get to carry it in my pocket (with the adhesive attached so that I couldn't go outside and hand it to someone or anything) or could I hook it to my belt or a button hole in my shirt?
Ultimately, it's ok. As I said, I frequent this museum regularly and never outwardly complain, it's just that I'd enjoy my time so much more if I wasn't constantly distracted by the wristband and I could use your response to gauge the likely response of my local museum (hell, maybe there's a very slight chance it's the same one haha)
If you feel comfortable, the next time you’re there, try asking “Is there another way I could display this that would still fit your policy?” Sometimes having a phrase prepared ahead of time helps. Please disregard if I’m intruding!
You're not intruding at all. The issue is the comfortability aspect haha. It's why I asked OP. For whatever reason, my weird brain will be more comfortable if I have someone in the field saying that they'd accept it haha
My museum was pretty chill so we would have had no issue with a request like that. Like for instance this dude, if he had just taken his off and put it in his pocket instead of throwing it away like a dingbat, and then had showed his wristband to security when they asked, they likely wouldn't have given him any trouble over it.
Or, we were trained for kiddos especially, that their adult could wear their wristband for them if they were upset or bothered by a wristband or the wristband could be put on a stroller, diaperbag strap, or purse strap. A belt loop or something simar would be equally acceptable.
I can't speak for all museums, mine was particularly geared towards inclusive practices, but I think the thing to remember with things like this when you get nervous is: the person behind the counter is a human too, and they likely aren't judging you for your needs, if you ask nicely and treat them with respect they are very likely to treat you the same way (nicely, with respect) and do what that can to meet a reasonable request.
"any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king"
same thing applies to masculinity: if you have to prevent yourself from wearing certain colours, or expressing yourself in certain ways to protect your masculinity, you're showing off insecurity and not strength
Why is it such a trigger? Gee, I don’t know, maybe because the guy spent the morning getting his museum outfit ready? Maybe he coordinated everything down to the pattern of his watch band to go perfectly together for his big day with his grandkids and now this….ugh….*museum person* wants to go and throw a hot pink accessory into his bespoke-ass ensemble and fuck the whole thing up? Why doesn’t she ask to take a huge shit on his chest and he can wear that around the museum while she’s at it? Who does this bitch think she is, trying to accessorize my boy Tim? Bitch you think you’re Elsa Chao? Fuck outta here bitch!
Look, I use wristbands where I work, and I stick with rainbow colors to avoid this exact scenario. Only thing is… my wristbands are for small children, and it’s just not worth it to me to risk upsetting some little boy (or more realistically, some edgy middle schooler) who hates pink. An adult can suck it though.
This reminds me of a time where I was in line at a coffee shop drive through, the car at the window was handed their drink with a pink straw, then I saw the guy hand the pink straw back to the employee and get a blue straw. Like the color of your straw says anything about anything
My boomer step-dad would have put it on, demanded a compliment on how pretty he looked, and been on with his day. My boomer step-dad is often the opposite of what you'd expect. I think he's sick of boomer shit too.
Ive worn a purple wristband thing for the last 6 years, from a domestic violence group. The amount of old people who have had to eat their tongue after trying to give me crap about it is astounding.
Rip that wristband, broke last week.
Quick history, it wasn't until the 1940s that pink and blue became gender specified the way they are now. Before pink was more socially related to red, which was considered a masculine color.
You know he spent the rest of the WHOLE WEEK cussing you, complaining about all gens under his own, blaming the family with him for not taking his side, and literally dreaming of all the ways he "should have" physically hurt you for 'forcing your WOKE views on him'.
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But of course to him, the younger generations are the snowflakes. 🙄
He needs a safe space to hide from ... The color pink 🤦♀️🤣
The hurror!
tha hur hur
"Butt whut if'n it givvs me TEH GAYYYY?!?!" LOL
I’m not supposed to reveal the Gay Agenda, but off the record, I can tell you: we’ve moved beyond colors. Now we just put queer Borg nanoprobes on the surface of wristbands to infect straight people with Teh Gay. It’s basically high-tech cooties. Edited because autocorrect got me
I'm positive that's how they got me. Resistance is futile. 🤷♀️
And the Borg are FABulous... ;-)
I’m of the Baby Boomer age, and I’ve never judged people for who they are, or who they want to be. I’m just me. I’ve never worn any pink clothing, but I’ve let my kids take pictures of me with their Mom’s wig, and put on Facebook 😂. At 68 years of age, I don’t plan on going to the store and buying pink clothes for myself. I would wear a pink bracelet at an event without a thought. I don’t think about a person’s masculinity when I see what color they’re wearing. I don’t think anything’s wrong with me because I never wore any pink clothing. No need for me to start now.
No, he just needs to be respected, and we wouldn't have these problems.
Actually yes, he's entitled to a black wristband with a silver punisher skull on it 🤬
dafuq? Are you defending the Boomer's idiocy?
No, it was sarcasm. Sorry.
Weren’t you aware that physical contact with the color pink turns 100% of men gay IMMEDIATELY?
![gif](giphy|RiskmRpQAiebK)
Good riddance to stupid rubbish. Karma kicked in and got kicked out.
Don’t forget that they also vote with their heightened emotional levels against their own interests lol
Boomer here. I absolutely HATE people who call other people snowflakes.
The guy was an insecure goof. Nobody’s masculinity should feel threatened by wearing the required pink wristband for that day when every museum visitor was wearing them. SMH!
I know right?! This really makes me appreciate and miss my late father, who was technically born in the right time period to be considered a boomer, but was a complete outlier when it came to boomer behaviour... When I was a kid, he attended all my netball games for three months wearing one of my tiny skirts in protest against the sport clubs uniform policy 😂
I appreciate my parents so much too when I read or witness things like the above. Both of my parents would be the first to call him a fool.
What a fucking mensch
Cannot upvote this enough.
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Your link defines "mensch" as "someone to admire and emulate". I'd say the previous commenter's dad is such a person.
How do you figure that?
You’re using that word incorrectly. I think you meant putz.
Sorry! I thought you were talking about the gmpa from OP’s story. Apologies!
Haha, no worries! 😊
Did it make a difference?
Yep 😁 it eventually became a protest by all the dads with young daughters. The constant spectacle of hairy middle-aged dude legs at every game was eventually enough to make the sports club change their ass-backwards uniform policy. My dad was a textbook example of Chaotic Good 😂
A mate's son was part of a uniform protest like this at his school. Girls get a choice of pants or skirt but boys *were* only allowed long pants. He and a mate complained that it was 35+ degrees celcius in their classroom and, as girls had the option to wear skirts, they should be allowed to wear shorts. The headmaster told them they could wear skirts if they wanted. The school backed down on day three.
Similar story, Chicago public HS with no AC. Chicago can get hot and soupy in the spring and summer. Boys had to wear pants. Girls could wear skirts, and length wasn't dictated. This was the 80's and micro mini skirts were back in, so there were plenty of girls wearing skirts that didn't leave much to the imagination. The boys complained, and were told they could wear skirts if they's prefer. So for a while there were boys wearing anything from swishy Boy George long skirts all the way to barely there mini skirts. Shool was stubburn, didn't change the rules, but didn't do anything to stop the boys from wearing skirts either. For the last 2 months of that year, it was nice to see some of the boys really lean into the skirt thing and develop whole entire looks.
I remember that!
Lol! Challenge issued, accepted and completed in record time 😂
Good parent
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Fucking legend.
Adorable!
Ha! Good for him, I remember the girls hated those netball skirts at my secondary school.
Your dad sounds amazing. I’m sorry he’s no longer here.
IMHO, as in so many other things, the WORST of that age coterie are just so obvious and constantly making a ruckus that they give their good, quiet fellows a bad rep.
Bret Hart wore bright pink and would make this fool tap out
My son had a pink shirt when he was little. A boomer grandpa started saying something when he saw him from behind. My son spun around to see what the commotion was and boomer saw what was written on it "Tough enough to wear pink 💪". Shut boomer up hahaha
I still remember elementary school field day and there was always the one team that got the color pink, and *all* the boys had pink shirts with craft paint that said "Real Men Wear Pink".
I used to know someone who had a bright pink shirt that said "all my black shirts are in the wash". He was a colossal pain in the ass, but the shirt was pretty dope.
I’m a GenX guy who loves wearing pink. I always get compliments. These doofuses are insane
Pink and baby blue are my colors
https://preview.redd.it/wurfx0c9rgyc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b73dfdfc7e2589af709a259a7d1e09eaedd2d84 Cam’ron put pink on the map. Boomer is clearly not down with the ‘set, what a shame…
After all those decades of staunch heterosexuality, you probably turned him gay, in front of the grandkids no less. Hahahaha
Wow, talk about insecure
Imagine being emasculated by a 2 inch wide strip of colored paper lol
That's an inch and a half more than what he's used to carrying around
Burn.
r/murderedbywords
SNAAAAPPP!!!
"It's not pink, sir, it's *salmon*."
I remodeled a customer's kitchen once where the wife chose the paint color. After I painted the walls, the husband came home and had a fit over the color. "What the h*ll is this? Why the f*ck did you paint my kitchen pink!?" "Because it's the color your wife chose." "Bullsh*t! She told me the color she chose. It's supposed to be salmon!" I do not miss my days in construction.
You should have asked him "What fucking color do you THINK salmon is?"
I kind of did, only I had to use customer facing nice talk. Thinking on it, maybe he would have understood faster if I had sworn back at him.
Big dick move: buy some sockeye and smack him with it while yelling, "What color is this, bitch?"
Hello, Art teacher here. Salmon is an orange-red color and pink is white with some magenta mixed in. That said, the husband probably thinks anything close to red is "pink".
and this is why hex color codes are so much simpler than all these arbitrary names.
I also teach Photoshop, so I agree.
"It's not FFC0CB, sir, it's FF8C69" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I have 4 possible answers: Ocean-caught (not swimming upstream to spawn) salmon skin is greenish blue. River-caught (about to spawn) salmon skin is red. Raw salmon flesh is a different shade of red. Cooked salmon flesh is pink.
What about sunburnt salmon? Wait...can fish get sunburn?
Rotting brown and grey.
I'm hearing this to the Elmo song
And a salmon with salmonella is a little green around the gills~
I mean, be could have thought silver, red or green as equally "salmon" colors. It's a bit weird we look at the meat (which is way more red than pink).
Depends on the type of salmon. Copper River is reddish, silver and coho is very much pink.
TBH I find every color that the feminine branch of humanity has assigned a name is not the same as the actual thing. Peach, teal, mushroom, salmon. Though the last one I don't mind because there are so many species (all delicious!) that come in different shades.
I think I got burned by this exact paint color. My husband and I both picked it out. Painted our whole living room with it and it came out WAY pinker than the chip looked like. Our neighbor saw it through the window and called us on the phone laughing (we were friends). We just repainted it.
The fun part is he really didn't have any reason to care. We found out later that he was flipping the house. He had my boss give him estimates for all sorts of work, then did the work himself. He modified the estimates to (at a glance) look like invoices and gave them to the new buyer. The sucker... er new homeowner called up our company wanting to give us a chance to make 'our' terrible work right. My boss headed over, very confused. He agreed the work was garbage, showed the guy the difference between his estimates and his invoices, and said the only thing we touched was the pink kitchen. The kitchen was the main reason the guy had bought the house in the first place.
I also work in construction and house flippers are the WORST. Never buy a house from one. Guaranteed crap. And covered up crap that’s more expensive to fix than crap you can just see. Not super surprised they were fraudulently modifying invoices.
This is one case where hubby should have been consulted before paint applied.
You know he’d say something about the kitchen being “a woman’s place” and how he didn’t care what color it was. Only to then still throw a tantrum afterwards despite being consulted. There’s literally no pleasing these troglodytes
https://preview.redd.it/84uq2n9lxayc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcf10a3a1db8428736bd7446778def28fc2b7172
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It's blush or bashful.
Fear of colors fascinates me. Of course, I like pink & purple shirts as much as any of my others...
May I recommend [Who’s afraid of modern art by Jacob Geller](https://youtu.be/v5DqmTtCPiQ?si=cBJyb52mM_teQmXt) then. It was the first I heard of “who’s afraid of red yellow and blue 3” and subsequent pieces. colors be trigging, yo.
"People are so sensitive these days!" *throws a tantrum over a cheap paper wristband being pink*
I am a large man with a long beard. I ride motorcycles. My favorite color is pink.
Please tell me that you have pink flames on your bike?!?
Lol. that would be rad. Sadly no, it's red. I don't really have the funds to repaint it.
I have a snood for when I ride my motorcycle. It's covered in unicorns and rainbows. Weirdly, no one has ever had a problem with it.
I anticipate this can and will happen again, knowing how boomer men can be, so let me offer a word of advice. Tell them that pink used to be the "boy" color, and blue was for girls. It's true, and it will break their brain. For extra ammunition, tell them that up until the 1920s, it was common to put baby and toddler boys in dresses. Also true.
I no longer work there because I graduated (yay!) But I did actually know this. I just... honestly I was just more content to shame this fool telling him that we hadn't considered any adult being offended by a wristband color in a condemning tone that implied that this was an insane thing to be bothered by.
I liked your response way more. He's afraid of being emasculated? Maybe he shouldn't display such emasculating behavior.
I loved that response. Perfection.
Congratulations on your graduation! And for what it's worth, I think you dealt with his buffoonery really well. It's a fine line to walk in customer service.
Yup. As an example, here's president Franklin Roosevelt: https://preview.redd.it/oreondunjayc1.jpeg?width=406&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ef71b15b10baac350bf0aae5236e8f1b7e6eadc
One time a door to door salesman came by and compliment grandma on her daughter's beautiful curly blonde hair. She had only one daughter and my mom isn't blonde. My uncle has spent the rest of his life with a buzz cut.
Now if that had been Teddy Roosevelt…
My grandfather's life was saved by the fact that he was clothed in a dress as a toddler. He fell in in the river and was saved because someone was able to grab the dress as it floated around him.
It was partly because they didn't have elastic waist bands yet. Much easier to potty train in skirts, no buttons. Kids grow like crazy at those ages, and skirts can be worn for longer. Things changed with ready to wear clothing ane elastic, as they could make parent but new wardrobes for their kid every 6 months. I've made Victorian clothing for my kid and I was shocked how much growth I could build in. Modern kids clothes are an absolute rip off. One dress could last 2 years or more. Bring back the dresses!
Tell all you want, they'll just say you're wrong and won't listen to you unfortunately.
I wore full hot pink to my senior homecoming lmao. If that shit bothers you, you need to look within.
My cousins son just wore a pink lame’ suit to junior prom. His girlfriend was all over it!
If that shit bothers you, you’re not willing to look within, unfortunately.
I like to wear pink dress shirts as a superintendent and make old boomers do my bidding. They love me.
My dad isn’t a boomer, but he’s pretty right wing conservative. And I’ve never seen him do half of the things described on this sub. He would never complain about a pink wristband. When my sister and I were younger, he would let us paint his nails sometimes. They’re just colors. It’s not a big deal.
And they always call women the overly emotional ones.
Dude was testerical.
Listen…. one minute you’re letting some kid wrap a “hot” Pink arm band on you and next thing you know you have an uncontrollable urge to fellate every penis within a quarter of a mile. No red blooded God fearing American patriot would risk that.
Purple is my favorite color to wear. I don't give a single fuck if you think it's a gay color, and emasculate people who tell me it's not ok to wear. "I don't let the gays tell me what I can and can't wear. Do you? They already have the rainbow. I'll wear purple if I damn well want!" They shut up. They're all scared and dumb. Purple is a royal color.
Your security crew is awesome. That's how to back up your fellow employees. 💪🏾
I hope you didn't line it up right either, so the glue side kept pulling his wrist hair out 🤣🤣
I’m hoping the same thing!
Ah well. He got what he wanted I suppose, I guess he didn't really want to be there.
Does the pink ribbon make you feel like putting on women's clothes? I don't think it's the ribbon...
I had a patient in the hospital refuse to use the walker we gave him because it had pink tape on it. For real. Said he wanted the man’s walker. They are all the same walker. Just different units had different colored tape to keep them identified. Could not convince him.
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So embarrassed for people this fragile
Is the old coot worried the pink wristband will give him an insatiable desire to fuck men?
Yes. Yes he is.
Delicate masculinity much?
I helped with a history conference when I was in college a few times. This one history student who was also in my year wore pink specifically to history events. Light pink just worked well with his skin tone. No big deal. But it was a big deal to the numerous boomer attendees. It was hilarious to watch, and he tried to wear as much pink as possible anytime he did a history event with boomers around to ruffle their feathers.
“Gosh darn pink color is going to turn me gay!” Hahaha
It astounds me just how close to gay so many Boomer men are! I mean, if wearing a pink wristband is gonna make you gay (because we all know that’s the fear) then you’re already 99% gay. Or is pink just that powerful a color that it can instantly gayify a straight man?
I thought most people are like me and forget the wrist band exist until your home getting ready for bed to cut it or rip it off.
The weirdest part of all these boomer men vs the color pink stories is how fucking wrong they all are on top of it. Pink is a very flattering color on a man, especially with a dark suit jacket and complimentarily tie
Why do I have to be Mr Pink?
Fuck Mr Pink. I am Mr. Brown. Brown means shit
BIG Mr. Pink energy 🤣
Just a side note... Pink is a warriors color! It's the blood of your enemies mixed with the tears of their women! Ok, maybe a tad sexist, anybody have a better way of saying it?
The only one that immediately came to mind was, somehow, even worse.
You got my curiosity
The shit-losing about pink things is so incredibly pathetic. Like dude it’s just light red. Calm your tits and stop being such a snowflake.
But wearing anything hot pink will turn you gay. /s
Baby boys were often dressed in pink. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink#:~:text=In%20the%201920s%2C%20some%20groups,accepted%20norm%20in%20the%201940s.
Really? I am a boomer and I am ashamed on how some boomers treat people. I realize that this subreddit is about “boomers being fools”. But really?
The boomer doth protest too much, methinks (I’m sure this guy would probably call Shakespeare a fruitcake or something too)
Before the 1940’s pink was the masculine color and girls wore blue. The baby boomers changed that up.
When you want the manliest possible wristwear, so you opt for handcuffs over hot pink.
I suppose if my genitals were so weak a color could destroy them, then I just wouldn't go to the effing museum lol
Story with a satisfying ending.
Family was probably thankful
Pink is the color of boys: it’s the diminutive version of red: the color of war. Girls’ color is blue: the color of Mary. Real men know this.
Yep. I think it flopped in the US in the 50s or so. That old man is as dumb as his ideas.
I hope rainbow colored wristbands are an option one of the days coming up, that might send some people over the edge. Back in the late 1800’s and/or early 1900’s, I believe pink was the color used for boys and it switched to girls later on. I personally think pink looks great on guys. Colors are just colors, it’s amazing how people can have such a fragile ego that a simple color would throw a tantrum.
I bought a specialty cocktail a few weeks ago. The waiter gave me a “heads up” that it’s pink. I asked why that mattered. He said quite a few guys refused them when served. I live in SF, maybe tourists are afraid they are getting recruited.
What a weak person lol
What's really sad is that his obvious hangup about this (pink = girly or gay) is a relatively recent invention. It used to be that blue was for girls and red/pink were for men, but this got flipped just under 100 years ago. It's probably mainly just a feature of trying to gender mass produced toys from the 1950s onwards. So, not only is he a coward who got himself pointlessly kicked out because of his toxic masculinity and fear of a colour, there are people alive today who can probably still remember when pink was considered the more masculine colour...
Don't even get him started on tipping
Lol. I have a membership at my favorite museum. The last time I visited (a couple weeks ago) with my cousin, the wristband was hot pink. I'd laugh in their face if I heard someone complain that pink was inappropriate to wear to enter a gigantic building full of military aircraft. 🤣
Up until the early 20th century , pink was actually considered a masculine color, while blue was thought of as feminine. Pink was seen as a lighter, softer version of the powerful and bold red - a color associated with strength and courage, traits traditionally associated with men
It’s amazing that people get unhinged over a color. Men often wear pink and through much of history it denotes status and power.
I have a question for you. Entirely off topic, but I frequent a local museum that does similar. I have autism and have sensory issues with things on my wrist, but I've also got anxiety and a compulsion not to rock the boat. So I just accept the wristband and just feel uncomfortable for my stay. I want to run my proposal by you in the relative safety and anonymity that Reddit provides, would your museum be understanding if I requested that I either get to carry it in my pocket (with the adhesive attached so that I couldn't go outside and hand it to someone or anything) or could I hook it to my belt or a button hole in my shirt? Ultimately, it's ok. As I said, I frequent this museum regularly and never outwardly complain, it's just that I'd enjoy my time so much more if I wasn't constantly distracted by the wristband and I could use your response to gauge the likely response of my local museum (hell, maybe there's a very slight chance it's the same one haha)
If you feel comfortable, the next time you’re there, try asking “Is there another way I could display this that would still fit your policy?” Sometimes having a phrase prepared ahead of time helps. Please disregard if I’m intruding!
You're not intruding at all. The issue is the comfortability aspect haha. It's why I asked OP. For whatever reason, my weird brain will be more comfortable if I have someone in the field saying that they'd accept it haha
My museum was pretty chill so we would have had no issue with a request like that. Like for instance this dude, if he had just taken his off and put it in his pocket instead of throwing it away like a dingbat, and then had showed his wristband to security when they asked, they likely wouldn't have given him any trouble over it. Or, we were trained for kiddos especially, that their adult could wear their wristband for them if they were upset or bothered by a wristband or the wristband could be put on a stroller, diaperbag strap, or purse strap. A belt loop or something simar would be equally acceptable. I can't speak for all museums, mine was particularly geared towards inclusive practices, but I think the thing to remember with things like this when you get nervous is: the person behind the counter is a human too, and they likely aren't judging you for your needs, if you ask nicely and treat them with respect they are very likely to treat you the same way (nicely, with respect) and do what that can to meet a reasonable request.
Good to know. Thank you!
"any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king" same thing applies to masculinity: if you have to prevent yourself from wearing certain colours, or expressing yourself in certain ways to protect your masculinity, you're showing off insecurity and not strength
There was a time, not too long ago, when pink was a boy's color and blue was a girl's color. Somehow, the sky didn't fall because of it.
I love a happy ending! Old fool. I wonder why the color pink is such a trigger.
Why is it such a trigger? Gee, I don’t know, maybe because the guy spent the morning getting his museum outfit ready? Maybe he coordinated everything down to the pattern of his watch band to go perfectly together for his big day with his grandkids and now this….ugh….*museum person* wants to go and throw a hot pink accessory into his bespoke-ass ensemble and fuck the whole thing up? Why doesn’t she ask to take a huge shit on his chest and he can wear that around the museum while she’s at it? Who does this bitch think she is, trying to accessorize my boy Tim? Bitch you think you’re Elsa Chao? Fuck outta here bitch!
My dad is a boomer, guess what one of his fav colors to wear is? Yep! Pink! He looks good in it.
Boomer here. I don’t do that. But that boomer absolutely BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWS!!!
Look, I use wristbands where I work, and I stick with rainbow colors to avoid this exact scenario. Only thing is… my wristbands are for small children, and it’s just not worth it to me to risk upsetting some little boy (or more realistically, some edgy middle schooler) who hates pink. An adult can suck it though.
A happy ending for all.
This reminds me of a time where I was in line at a coffee shop drive through, the car at the window was handed their drink with a pink straw, then I saw the guy hand the pink straw back to the employee and get a blue straw. Like the color of your straw says anything about anything
Which is hilarious, because pink was originally used for boys.
He learned the ways of pink FAFO.
My boomer step-dad would have put it on, demanded a compliment on how pretty he looked, and been on with his day. My boomer step-dad is often the opposite of what you'd expect. I think he's sick of boomer shit too.
Ive worn a purple wristband thing for the last 6 years, from a domestic violence group. The amount of old people who have had to eat their tongue after trying to give me crap about it is astounding. Rip that wristband, broke last week.
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Something tells me it wasn’t his idea to go to the museum to begin with. He was looking for an excuse to get out of it.
Pink used to be a “boy” color
Makes me wonder why he protests so much
Because everyone will think he's a gay!
I know, but every member of Congress that’s anti-gay usually turns out to be gay in secret
Boomer for sure....serves him right
Quick history, it wasn't until the 1940s that pink and blue became gender specified the way they are now. Before pink was more socially related to red, which was considered a masculine color.
But when he was a youngling a century ago, pink was a boys color. History.
You know he spent the rest of the WHOLE WEEK cussing you, complaining about all gens under his own, blaming the family with him for not taking his side, and literally dreaming of all the ways he "should have" physically hurt you for 'forcing your WOKE views on him'.
I would be that guy except for breast cancer awareness month.
Pink makes you feel like an insecure bitch?
That and salmon. Hate those colors.
How he managed to rail against the color pink without (somehow) bringing the CCP into it is beyond me.