Duncan Castles

[Ancient Citizen]

It's implying pink, a colour wrongly or rightly associated with women or homosexuals is weak or not befitting of a hard man.

Strangely enough, pink was deemed a 'Manly' colour from the early middle ages until quite recently, somehow it
got co-opted by marketing to mean pink for girls, blue for boys.
I think, but am not sure, it was the Yanks, similar to how Father Christmas ended up wearing bright red, an early Coca Cola ad,
apparently.

 

[blueparrot]

Strangely enough, pink was deemed a 'Manly' colour from the early middle ages until quite recently, somehow it
got co-opted by marketing to mean pink for girls, blue for boys.
I think, but am not sure, it was the Yanks, similar to how Father Christmas ended up wearing bright red, an early Coca Cola ad,
apparently.

From what I've learnt from QI back in time it was pink for boys and blue for girls. Also the Father Christmas / coca cola this comes under general ignorance and the red pre dates Coca Cola.
http://www.victorian-era.org/victor...stmas-original-way.html/victorian-christmas-4

 

[Ancient Citizen]

From what I've learnt from QI back in time it was pink for boys and blue for girls. Also the Father Christmas / coca cola this comes under general ignorance and the red pre dates Coca Cola.
http://www.victorian-era.org/victor...stmas-original-way.html/victorian-christmas-4

Ah, right, I wasn't certain, so Father Chrimbo in red is from the Victorian era?
Pink was indeed the male colour, and I've always liked it, had many a pink shirt over the years.

And I'm not gay yet.

 

[bluwes]

I think most of those who commented on his tweet being homophobic, and yes I include myself in that, were on a wind up. As a result, for whatever reason he deleted it. I take great delight that he took it down. The man is a knob of the first order, and I will devote as much time as I can to call him out whenever and on whatever

 

[blueparrot]

Ah, right, I wasn't certain, so Father Chrimbo in red is from the Victorian era?
Pink was indeed the male colour, and I've always liked it, had many a pink shirt over the years.

And I'm not gay yet.

Not sure when or where it started but was popular in Victorian times. Coca cola used their version of Santa from the 1930s, before that he appeared in other colours including red.
What the Coke advertising did do was standardise what we thought he should look like.

 

[80s Shorts]

It's implying pink, a colour wrongly or rightly associated with women or homosexuals is weak or not befitting of a hard man. Leaving the question, why can't a women or someone who's gay be tough?

I'm personally not offended but could see why some would be.

 

[schfc6]

I don't fancy Dunc's chances in a contest of toughness...

 

[dickie davies]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Village_Spartans_RUFC

 

[80s Shorts]

I don't fancy Dunc's chances in a contest of toughness...

Me neither.

 

[Groke]

An odd comment from someone who spends all his waking hours rimming mourinho