is it weird for a guy to own a pink NDS lite?

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when i bought a pink NDS lite, my dad asked "is it for you or is it for a female friend"? my mom wasnt bothered and said "everyone seems to like the pink NDS lite". an online friend said "lol, pink?" other people dont seem to have a problem with it.

To me it's not. I mean I think you should be able to get whatever color you like best. Unfortunately I suspect most of the world (or at least the United States) would think it was weird, so I'd avoid a color like pink for a guy. It shouldn't be that way though.

I wouldn't worry. Anyone who has a problem with it in public will probably think you're borrowing someone else's anyway.

I wanted a pink DS, but I got white instead.

I've got white too, although when I got it it was the only color, so I guess that dosen't count.

I think it's one of the nicest colors for the DS though. I wanted a white PSP too, but I had to settle for silver because I didn't want Darth Vader on the back on it (why couldn't have have had a good guy on it like Obi Wan Kenobi?)

It is kinda weird, but you can use it in a good way. If someone calls you out on it, don't meekly say "yeah... i like pink...". Just say something funny like "Yeah! Isn't it pretty?!".

I want a pink DS Lite.

P.S.

Absolutely not! I own a pink DS and it is just awesome, so there. That reminds me, why is pink considered a "girly" color while blue is a "manly"(like how they dress newly born babies)? I wonder where that designation first started?

I wanted one of those red and black ones, but white was all they had left. So I ended up with a white one.

I got the pink one. I was next in line for a DS and pink was the remaining color we didn't own... so, that's mine. I like it just fine. Oh, we got the two tone red/black for our son as soon as it was released. First day.

Jon

I don't know, but apparently it used to be the reverse, from what my grandma told me (they had pictures from the 19th century framed with the opposite colors even).

Actually Pink has been creeping into men's fashion here in the U.S.
Go to any Western Wear store (psuedo-wanna-be-cowboy stores) and you'll find major labels like Wrangler who are making pink shirts for men.
It's probably NOT because of Brokeback Mtn!

The whole 'Pink for Breast Cancer' trend is partly responsible for this.

At 47, I can finally get myself to wear pink, pastel blues and greens, etc.
Part of this is because I am transgendered and much less afraid of showing it now-a-days.
Part of this is because I also realize how unfair it is for modern societies to allow females such a wide-ranging choice in colors and clothing, while restricting males as they have done for the past 100+ years.

I'd say keep the pink DS and enjoy it for what it is... a game device.
The more guys go out and 'break the mold', the more freedom we'll have eventually for everyone in these areas.

I enjoy wearing skirts. Men are actually better built for wearing skirts than pants. I have kilts, sarongs, and plain old skirts I've either made or bought off the women's racks at thrift stores and department stores.
It took a while, but I finally am at the point where I can wear them with confidence at college and not get harassed.
Of course, it may help that I am 6'2", 215lbs, and can grow a mean-looking beard

I find it so weird how fragile masculinity is in the Western world.
In other cultures you see men walking together holding hands, men wearing dresses (caftans, galabiyyas), men wearing skirts (kilts, sarongs, dhotis, lungis), and these do not affect their masculinity.
Why are Western civilizations so bent on cramping a man's ability to explore diversity in clothing and color by claiming such things as 'gay'?

Be BOLD and enjoy your pink DSLite!

I saw my wife's response to a different post from you (she's OregonBecky) and I'm glad that the world is gradually changing (because of people like you, I think, and others putting themselves on the line) so that what you are talking about is not so surprising and can become part of a wider range of behaviors that work for folks. Used to be that the only way a man could start dressing more femininely was to "go all the way" to the campy, flaming side. Over the top, so to speak, so that people just didn't know how to react. But everything short of that was handled ruthlessly in the US according to the Japanese phrase, "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down."

Becky has some experience with the gay community and perhaps less with transgendered. She used to live with two gay guys and saw and talked about most everything, back then. Also lived in the near north side of Chicago in the late '60s in a hippy commune setting, as well, working on an underground newspaper called The Seed and shared offices with the Black Panthers, etc. She can provide some pretty smart and thoughtful ideas.

Jon

if anyone gives you a problem say you support breast cancer research

And anyway, it's just a colour. The DS still does the same thing.

personally i think pink isnt really that girly a color... i think its a rather bright uplifting colorful mood