"HELL NO. I’m a man, not gay and won’t be dressing up as a Golden Girl anytime soon."
A pink sweater, currently being sold by the middle class fancy chain J. Crew, is the latest item to cause much social consternation amongst men who consider themselves manly. But you cannot have forgotten a most recent ripple when the popular low-calorie beer brand Bud Light celebrated the trans TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney by sending her a personalized can replete with her very own image. Mulvaney celebrated, on TikTok, but a fierce backlash instantly gobbled up the public square. A boycott was announced, Bud Light lost its market leadership to Modelo and Kid Rock shot up a case for good measure.
The entire mess certainly made other publicly traded companies think twice about openly promoting LGBTQ business and was celebrated by manly men as a victory against dumb woke culture trying to steal and/or bastardize their hard-earned testosterone.
Enter The Pink Sweater
The wool, crew neck’d number features a nice pattern at the upper yolk was not modeled by a trans nor an obvious homosexual on J. Crew’s website or in catalog. It contained no inclusive messages nor rainbows and yet instantly became targeted as “gay.”
MOMof DataRepublican took to X to immediately declare, “No man in my family would wear a pink sweater!”
Another added, “My husband wouldn’t use a pink bathroom towel.”
Yet another chimed, “HELL NO. I’m a man, not gay and won’t be dressing up as a Golden Girl anytime soon.
Still another blasted, “I’m sure you’ll be seeing these at the anti-Ice protests.”
Tme Burchett, a Republican congressman from Tennessee directly stated, “(The sweater) is something a sorority girl would wear in the 80s.”
And on and on and on.
The question for you, I suppose, is would you wear the pink sweater? And if so where? I, personally, would prefer in cashmere, as it is much softer to the touch, but could see debuting it at cocktail hour paired with some lighter-washed denim and clean pair of Nike Killshots.
The pink sweater retails for $168.00.
Before you leave, though, what is the “gayest” clothing/shoe you have ever owned? I once had a pair of pink satin Prada loafers. The toe was too square, making them hideous, but the idea was right.