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I have a pair of pink Chuck Taylor hi-tops. I'll be wearing them to work today.

I started choosing mainly pink for my sneakers (trainers, to you Brits) when my wife came home from work one day and told me about a rather... unevolved male colleague of hers. They'd been at lunch and saw a party at another table leaving, and this gent noted one man's pink sneakers. And declared unequivocally, "Men should never wear pink sneakers!" When Jill challenged this, he could not produce any reason more coherent than, "it's just wrong."

When I heard this I logged into Amazon and promptly ordered my first pair of pink sneakers. I'm now on my third.

To write this theme a bit larger, I hold that the words "masculine", "manly", etc. are useless. They describe no positive characteristic of any human that is not equally attributable to any or all of our varied genders/sexes. It would be well if they were dropped from our vocabulary.

Anyway, I often wear these to work, but today is especially notable... one of my colleagues (who might seem like a big subscriber to statements beginning with the words "Men should...") texted me a pic of his new pair of... Chuck Taylor hi-tops in pink! He asked me to wear mine today. Maybe the whole office will have them, by Christmas!

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