Real men wear pink
October 14th, 2008
A little while ago, one of my friends was dog sitting my pooch Riley and she bought him a brand new collar. The collar is great, but it’s pink and Riley is decidedly a male. This mostly poses a problem when Ian or I take Riley for a walk and people go, “Oh, she’s such a cute puppy. What’s her name?”
We got tired of getting the question three times a day, so Ian took his Sharpies to the collar and added a row of skulls. This now became a social experiment – when inferring Riley’s gender, would they use the color or the skulls?
Today I was out with Riley and we were stopped by a well-meaning woman with a King Charles Spaniel. “Oh, she’s such a sweet dog, isn’t she?” the woman asked.
The verdict: Pink still trumps skulls.
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