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Is this some US thing where you need a beard and drive a truck to be considered a man? Never heard the "color X is for women" argument in Europe.

Traditionally, female babies in the US are sent home from the hospital in pink and boys in powder blue.

This would be easily noticeable in a baby and child clothing store.

Also, if you walk through any toy aisle you can see specific colors marketed towards boys and girls. Dolls don’t typically come in navy blue boxes and action figures in pink ones. This certainly carries through adulthood in many instances.

Gender fluidity is ever changing (and has been). In Romantic (primarily European) languages some colors have been innately masculine or feminine for god knows how long.

Ironically, this whole topic is a “grey” area.

I think your beard and truck example is a misconception, but I can understand why you might think that from outside. I have pinks, purples in my closet amongst a lot of other colors.
 
Traditionally, female babies in the US are sent home from the hospital in pink and boys in powder blue.

This would be easily noticeable in a baby and child clothing store.

Also, if you walk through any toy aisle you can see specific colors marketed towards boys and girls. Dolls don’t typically come in navy blue boxes and action figures in pink ones. This certainly carries through adulthood in many instances.

Gender fluidity is ever changing (and has been). In Romantic (primarily European) languages some colors have been innately masculine or feminine for god knows how long.

Ironically, this whole topic is a “grey” area.

I think your beard and truck example is a misconception, but I can understand why you might think that from outside. I have pinks, purples in my closet amongst a lot of other colors.

Well said.

I just picked up Powder blue Beats headphones with my iMac order yesterday. Continuing to buy whatever I want.

Make your own color palette and have fun. These "Does this color make me look <whatever >" threads do make me giggle just a bit.

Yes, colors do have different meanings in different cultures (which I find pretty cool), but at the end of the day, it's your money and the only opinion that should matter is yours. :)
 
It seems like your wife has ruined it for you, no matter what now your gonna be nervous about opinions. Your married though, I really cannot fathom why you think it matters what other people think of your sexuality anymore.

I believe that was the point. She WANTS the green one, so you can’t have it. Also, I’m a gay man and I stopped giving any f*#s to what anybody else thinks about me.
 
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If you are a girly-girl man, then you should get the purple one. But if you're a real masculine man, you should get black and only black.:cool::rolleyes:
 
This is a serious question. I want to get the green iPhone 11, show it to my wife and she said is kinda “feminine” for a man. What you guys think?

You can be anything you want these days. Clearly your wife didn’t get the memo. You can identify as a feminine iPhone user if you like and everyone must accept it. Your wife needs re-education, send her to the centre fore with.
Kidding.
If your wife thinks it’s féminin isn’t she someone you want to please not distress?
 
This is a serious question. I want to get the green iPhone 11, show it to my wife and she said is kinda “feminine” for a man. What you guys think?

As an man, I think the only thing feminine is worrying what others think. Personally I don’t own anything pink. That’s not my style. Some men wear pink shirts. Do you.
 
This is a bait thread and y'all ate it up. No self-respecting, self-aware person would make this thread.
 
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Lesson learned OP. You’ve taken a WAY worse beating here than you ever would/will in life for having a pastel green phone :D

Is my sexuality questionable using a green emoji? I KID I KID
 
This is the green the OP is talking about.

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My bad, I was thinking of the Midnight Green Pro. That's a whole different green, but I'll stick with the idea that there really aren't "feminine" and "masculine" colors unless you want to see them that way. I guess the OP's wife is entitled to her opinion, but he's entitled to his as well. It's a phone, for crying out loud, not a genetic marker.
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No self-respecting, self-aware person would make this thread.

Didn't see that requirement in the TOS. ;) And I need to say this (in a friendly way, not attacking you - I have family in Berkeley), not all of us can live in Berkeley. :D
 
the freakin color is Drab Olive Green gang. Not "pastel green". Can't get more masculine than that. It's a traditional military color. Geeze
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Not pastel green you say?
 
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So we've been combined and entwined. :)

And now, my names for the 11 colors:

11 Green: Minty Fresh or Jade Glow
11 Red: Bloody Hell
11 Purple: Tell Me No Lilacs
11 Yellow: Mellow Yellow
11 White: That's Cream to you
11 Black: Another shade of Black (who's counting?)

I am somewhere between Bloody Hell and Cream.

But I'd considering rocking Minty Fresh/Jade Glow in a dark green or gold/bronze case, that would look beautiful.


Dear people,

just be you. Buy whatever color you want and enjoy.


 
This is a serious question. I want to get the green iPhone 11, show it to my wife and she said is kinda “feminine” for a man. What you guys think?
Feminine? Seriously! It looks more Military Green than it does Midnight Green. Maybe, your wife is confused and needs to question her sexuality. Be confident in anything you desire. Get the Midnight Green. Ease on the testosterone.
 
Do members not grasp that there are two different phones with two different shades of green?
iPhone 11 green is not the same as iPhone 11 Pro green.
Both can be used by any gender. We all seem to agree on that. But everyone
referencing the ‘olive’, ‘military’, ‘midnight’ green....that is NOT the phone in question.
 
Do members not grasp that there are two different phones with two different shades of green?
iPhone 11 green is not the same as iPhone 11 Pro green.
Both can be used by any gender. We all seem to agree on that. But everyone
referencing the ‘olive’, ‘military’, ‘midnight’ green....that is NOT the phone in question.

It’s actually kind of funny. People on these forums are “in the know”, and all of the phones being the iPhone 11 is confusing them.
 
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This is a serious question. I want to get the green iPhone 11, show it to my wife and she said is kinda “feminine” for a man. What you guys think?

We're in 2019 and people are still worried about their masculinity? Okay...
You should question your life if you decide not to buy something you like (as petty as a phone) because your wife told you it wasn't masculine. That's literally the issue on this planet: we care too much about other people's opinion than our own about things that affect solely us.
Now you're going to buy another colour to satisfy someone else's opinion, but inside you'll regret not buying what you like.
 
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