i feel like today it’s a standard work shirt color

brockman’s line is burned into my brain “the man in the pink shirt is the father of the family”

  • @Kethal
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    1 year ago

    Yes, it was. By pointing out how stupid this notion is, The Simpsons maybe played a role in making pink more acceptable.

  • @vividspecter
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    61 year ago

    Yes, wearing pink at all was seen as feminine or “gay” at the time. Despite progress being slower than I’d like things have changed a lot.

  • @Zarxrax
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    41 year ago

    I can’t speak for adults at the time, but as a child, I wouldn’t have been caught dead wearing pink, because it was a “girl color”. I don’t know if kids these days still have similar hangups, but kids’ things were hyper-gendered back then, and anything pink was obviously for girls.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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      61 year ago

      You used to be with it. Then they changed what “it” was. Now what you’re with isn’t it anymore and what’s it seems weird and scary.

  • Altima NEO
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    211 months ago

    Yeah it was all about those blue or white work shirts with the Dickies slacks. That was a working man’s uniform back then.