Quote Originally Posted by Kaeviathan View Post
I agree that this new RUN AF is horrible. I'll be insulted as man to wear any color nearly resembling pink.
Way to make super sexist/chauvinistic/homophobic remarks.
Comments like this make me ashamed to be male.
First off: It's not pink. The Abyssea Aurore set was pink. In fact, it wasn't just pink... it was PANK.
Go back to elementary school and learn your colors. (or wherever colors are taught to children) That is a colored usually referred to as "salmon" an offshoot of red, much like pink, but contains far more orange than could ever be allowed in pink.
Secondly: This is on a MITHRA. ALL armor gets super feminized/sexualized on Mithra characters... even moreso than female humes and elvaan. (sorry taru girls... most of the time your armor.... aside from like dnc... I can't tell you apart... T_T)
Chances are, given the trend of all the other armor sets, it's going to probably be more of a red-ochre color on men and this salmon color on women. (which means I'll be able to add RUN AF2 to my list of "armor that lets me tell the genders of Taru at a glance"!!)
And finally: Why will wearing this make you insulted? Will your manhood drop off if you wear pink? Will you catch "the gay"?
I'm not even going to try and argue "real men where pink"... because they don't.
Real men don't give a flying rat's butt about what color they are wearing.
Only insecure little boys who have yet to grow up do that.

Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
You can't know much about fashion history . masculine/feminine colors change greatly over time. It's not too long ago purple and pink were considered manly colors.
Indeed. Pink on girls used to be BLASPHEMOUS. (the equivalent of carrying around a sign that screams they were a lesbian)
Purple was more of a royals-only-b#ches... But it in no way was "emasculative".
Thank you for bringing this up.