This Troper's father most definitely fits this trope. 6'3", has had experience as a security guard, a bouncer, a minor-league wrestler, and yet he can't get enough of his favorite pink shirts. Sometimes, the fact that he owns a chihuahua doesn't help matters.

This Troper once had a 6"8 Tall, 240 pound athlete as an English teacher, and he would wear pink clothes and bracelets to school every single day. He'd give a {{Death Glare}} to anyone who questioned his fashion or made any gay jokes about him.

One of This Troper's gaming buddies is a large burly construction worker/hockey player/borderline BoisterousBruiser who has very pretty handwriting and enjoys herbal tea.

In the fifth grade, this troper's school's new fad was for the jocks to wear pink. It was a very boring fad.

This troper has a friend who's almost seven feet tall, literally has feet the size of bread loaves, and wins martial arts competitions all over the state. He likes purple, is quite effeminate and most of his friends are female.

This Troper's boyfriend, while being fairly masculine otherwise, plays a pink [=DS=]. When someone called him out on it I said, "Hey, real men like the colour pink!"

This (male) troper owns a pink DS Lite, owns (and enjoys) VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach, and loves the color lavender.

This male troper also has a pink DS. And a purple Hannah Montana PSP (although the latter came to be because it was the cheapest PSP he could find and import without getting into trouble with the customs - Amazon having them on a ridiculously low price sale).

You don't have to tell us why you bought it. You are a MAN!. REAL MEN HAVE THE GUTS TO ADMIT ANYTHING WITH A SMILE! Besides, Pink and Purple are so in right now.

On the brink, I was perfectly willing to wear a pink Tux to senior prom, but my GF said she'd rather I wore Silver.

This Troper's father, a bearded blue-collar worker with a gun collection, enjoys shoujo manga.

Your father is AWESOME.

This troper acquired a piece of minor furniture that was somewhere between pink and lavender (he didn't pick the color, but didn't care, so why replace it?). When his sergeant made some remarks about the "unmanliness" of this, the troper said something along the lines of, "That ''I'm'' using it ''makes'' it a manly color."

This tall, fat and hairy troper enjoys chick flicks and romantic comedies

This editor enjoys wargames, makes it a priority to exercise, and is working on growing a Fu Manchu. I also love art, horseback riding, and interior decorating, and always try to make people close to me feel comfortable. Oh, I don't mind the colour pink either.

This troper's class colors for three years during Spirit Week were pink...The guys enjoyed it just as much as the girls did and they typically wore more bright pink than the girls.

This Troper: Over 6 feet tall, barbarian-level beard, immune to emotional suffering, enjoys (fake) choking people and making origami. Quite good at both.

At this troper's high school, the boys volley ball team (which has won states several years in a row and is the closest thing we have to 'cool athletes') absolute adore pink and 'girly' things including a full ballet routine in tutus and butterfly wings at a pep rally.

Not exactly this trope as the speaker was not particularly manly, but does name it almost word-for-word: During a discussion on {{Pokemon}}, a friend of this troper got frustrated and yelled, at the top of his lungs, "REAL MEN USE LANTURN!!!" Then immediately lampshaded it.

Well, of course they would. Lanturn is awesome.

This troper is usually considered by his friends as a BadAss StraightGay...but he still loves cats (especially kittens!), and is addicted to watching ChisSweetHome.

In a TabletopGame, this troper made a character who is 8 foot:2.43m tall, 4 foot:1.21m wide, extremely scary with a big sword and lots of leather. Immediately after his introduction, everyone failed miserably on a roll to spot something through binoculars and I declared I would try again after using my massive Home Economics skill to clean the binoculars.

You, sir, have just won my undying respect.

This (male) troper has a fluorescent pink T-shirt that says "The Sexy Beasts" on it.

This troper: 6'3". Mustached. Notorious among those who know him for being deathly cynical. Primary form of exercise is Ryoga Hibiki-esque distance hikes. Wardrobe is near-entirely business casual. Adores cats, is fond of Hawaiian shirts, and will cry if exposed to cute things for too long.

This troper has a ''pink cell phone.'' (No, I didn't buy it.) I had a Blackberry, but the speakerphone sucks and my old phone was wearing out, so I asked my sister-in-law if she had an extra phone I could borrow - ergo, '' 'The Pinkinator' '' (as one nephew calls it). I still keep it around, even though I can get another, because it's an excellent conversation-starter with women... ''and oh, the way it rocks people's perceptions when I bring it out in a crowded room...!''

This Troper can match Don Lafontaine, is fairly large and imposing, has in insane weapon collection and...knits on a regular basis.

This Troper is a a loner that not less good looking had problem to befriend someone, not popular among girls. My Older Bro is a friendly but tricky and SOO POPULAR!. And I'm yelling at him founded 30% his wardrobe space filled with Fuckin' tight PINK T-SHIRT. Myself instantly sent to a battlefield of two ideas that think "Pink are GIRLY" or "Pink are MANLY", still choosed Black however.

Wat ? Seriously, can anyone understand a word of this ?

If I got that...which I might not have...he said that his brother's wardrobe is almost half pink, he's not sure if that's girly or manly, but he still wears black himself...I think. English, motherf*** er, do you speak it?!

I'll try to ask in his language...Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

This Troper plays flute in her high school's marching band. One guy, Jaz, is popular, really insanely tall, smart, witty... and he's the only male flutist. And he's proud of it. He plays piccolo, too. #QUOTE# Jaz: Ya know, it's interesting to see the tallest person in the band playing the smallest instrument.

I'm sorry, but... a guy named Jaz in a marching band. That's awesome.

This Troper has a friend who is a big beefy guy, majors in engineering, loves beer, knows his way around a bedroom, owns several hundred gigs worth of porn...and knits.

AronRa, proprietor of a youtube channel dedicated to science and education is known as the Texas Tank, is huge enough to be mistaken for a bigfoot, and conveys himself with a manner that says when he breaks your legs, he'll be able to tell you exactly what bones he just popped out and taxonomically how they differentiate you from wet-notes primates. And in the enclosed video...

This Troper's friend, a 6'4, 210 .lbs giant of a FRESHMAN, can and will run 6 miles stragit, followed immediatly by 20 sets of 20 pushups, 20 sets of 30 sit ups and 15 sets of 10 pullups. Everyone, including seniors, scared shitless of him. Likes to wear skirts, pink beanies with kitty ears, hugs anyone, will be moved to tears by romantic movies, loves cute things and made sewed himself a giant HelloKitty shirt. The best part of all this, is that the only person who ever calls him out on this, is a 4'8" gal.

This troper knitted his own scarf, has no problem wearing pink, and has a twin/clone who knitted his own hat, fingerless gloves, and neckwarmer.

This troper is not only an art student, but has mostly female friends in said classes, enjoys romantic comedy anime , magical girl series, and broadway musicals. All despite being a 6 foot tall, 280 pound latino guy who has been said before to look "intimidating"

This Troper does not fit this trope because, while male, he is not manly in any conceivable way. This extends to his hobby of doing cross stitch (it's like embroidery, if you don't know). While taking chemistry at college, some of my classmates noticed the cross stitch equipment sticking out of my bag and began ribbing me for it. At this point, another classmate spoke up. A 6'3", 250 pounds of raw muscle, motorcycle-riding ex-marine classmate. "Hey! Lay off him. I crochet!" Nobody felt like ribbing me after that. He followed that with a story of how he'd crocheted teddy bears ''while in the Marines'' to the great abuse of his friends, until he started using the bears to impress the, uh, let's just say girls in the cities they were stationed at, at which point his hobby ceased to be a source of ribbing and became quite profitable.

This troper's boyfriend had to borrow pink socks from her as he had nothing to wear to a fundraising day at work, where all the staff had agreed to wear one pink item to raise money for breast cancer research. All the other men in his office had no trouble finding something pink in their wardrobes.

This troper's roommate's boyfriend (got all that?) is solidly built, drives a pickup truck, takes welding classes, and loves gaming, drinking, sex, and terrible movies. He has threatened to steal this troper's hot pink rain boots and her crazy pink sweater. More than once.

This troper, for some reason unknown to him, is a collector of stuffed animals; I can't help myself, they are just so damn cute...

This troper's biology teacher has a custom made ''neon'' pink labcoat. It's '''awesome'''.

This troper's husband, whom she dearly loves, has pink sweater vests and ties.

This troper's bedroom has pastel, floral wallpaper.

My father is a six-foot-four, burly and (I'm told) intimidating man with a hobby of carpentery. I can never really understand the "intimidating" part as he's an enormous goof, is the family's go-to cook for anything fancy, likes pottery and loves cheesy TV and {{Chick Flick}}s. It's evidently genetic, as one of my little brothers is a {{Glee}} addict : Guess who introduced him and me to {{Glee}}? with a deep love of Disney music and another brother likes goofy TV.

This troper's husband watches JaneAusten movies, creates floral centerpieces for special occasions, cooks gourmet Thanksgiving dinners from scratch, drinks tea, and talks baby talk to his adorable female kitten in front of his buddies. However, he won't wear pink -- because it clashes with his red hair.

The company this troper is employed in used to provide office uniforms for majority of its employees until last year when the dress code was loosened up. Before that, the last set provided for male employees included a long sleeved PINK dress shirt, worn on Thursdays.

This troper went to Catholic school, and we had uniforms. (Sorry to disappoint the perverts out there, but they weren't that exciting to look at.) One part of it was an Oxford shirt in white, yellow, pink, blue, or purple. And the boys started a tradition of wearing pink shirts on Fridays.

This One remembers being in film class, and we needed a ''hideous'' girl for a diet pill commercial. Unfortunately, all the girls were gorgeous (?). One male, a barrell-chested fellow, said he would wear a dress for the sake of the film "because he was comfortable enough in his sexuality to do so". Let's face it, ya gotta be a man to wear a dress!

My little brother has a pink baseball hat with a heart design on it. He won it from a crane game. For him, it's the coolest hat ever. He wore it to school on a regular basis and when the school year ended, he let all the kids sign it.

This troper is often seen as somewhat imposing but just so happens to be a big fan of shoujo anime and manga {love {{Sailor Moon}} and {{Azumanga Daioh}}}, games such as {{Arcana Heart}} and {{Vanguard Princess}}, enjoys cooking, art, pop music {{{Lady Gaga}} and {{Katy Perry}} come to mind}, and dyes his hair on occasions.

Actually, Azumanga Daioh was published in a Shonen magazine.

This troper has a pink shirt which he wore to his Christmas Ball (I didn't have a white shirt at the time and I didn't want to borrow one from my dad). I also like cooking (although I'm, erm, not very good at anything that isn't meat), reading lots of books (even the Twilight books: technically, they were my sister's, but, since she had already finished reading them, I thought it would be a shame leaving them unread for a long time) and listening to a variety of music, ranging from Lordi to Ke$ha to Green Day to Lady Gaga to Simon and Garfunkel to Paramore(my personal favourites). I also enjoyed sewing at middle school. Oh, and I love tea.

This troper once went out for a walk in the rain and passed by a guy who looked like a stereotypical biker and was holding a lacy, periwinkle umbrella.

This troper's father spends all day working on cars at a reputable used car dealership. Every day, he comes home in his Mary Kay pink Cadillac that he found at a wholesale lot. He saved 4 grand because it was pink and it has the second best gas mileage of all of our cars, but those reasons were secondary to the fact that the car was pink. When I asked him why, he replied, "Real Men Drive Pink Cars."

This troper loves {{Glee}} (as does his father. His mother and sister hate it.), {{AlanisMorrisette}}, and hates a lot of things considered manly (sports, drinks, that Axe crap, etc.)However, I don't wear pink. It's not my color.

Axe is only manly in that their marketing department says they are. I highly doubt "real men" use it any more than its competitors.

This troper knows two guys (one who's a good friend and another who's an ex-boyfriend) whose favorite color is purple. The ex-boyfriend wears a purple shirt at times; the friend most of the time wears purple converses and sometimes wears a purple striped hoodie. The friend's excuse for liking the color? It was George Harrison's favorite color.

This troper has been told that you haven't lived until you've heard an over six-foot, over 200 lb. bearded man spontaneously interrupt a conversation to point ou--KITTY! My love of {{Utsuge}} (and almost inevitable reaction to them) is a much more closely guarded secret, though. Put them together and...okay, kittens make me cry.

This troper wears pink armor in Halo 3. People laugh, until I kick their ass. I also love Ah My Goddess, Eureka Seven, and green tea. Oh, and I have an AK-47 which I shoot off on a regular basis to practice my skills. I also love skiing, trap shooting, mountain biking, and other extreme sports in addition to green tea and wine.

This troper's friend's big brother has a pink shirt reading - you guessed it - "Real Men Wear Pink."

This straight male troper also has that shirt, and wears it to the Pride Parade when he accompanies his LGBTQ friends.

This troper has a character in the story she is writing who was supposed to be a Deadpan Snarker, a darker-and-edgier Lancer and a Walking Shirtless Scene with a Badass Longcoat and cool combat boots that include lots of spikes. After realizing that it was trying too hard to make him cool, she added some "double infinity symbols" that are very obvious pink flowers of his sleeves and an Emberassing Girly First Name that was his Berserk Button, making it appear as if the character tried to make himself oh-so-manly and not the author. This troper still thinks that it was playing for stereotypes, but at least two of her friends say that it made the character more manly and that it seemed like he was trying to compensate for something before the change of his sleeves. So yeah.

This troper also knew a guy who moved to my school for a while because of his Football (Soccer?) team, which won some teen tournaments, and he ''always'' wore pink. Obviously, he was never, ever called girly because of it.

Scroll down and read the last post. The BadAss skate punk rocker loved ballet. No joke. Sort of like BillyElliot meets Joey Ramone, eh?

This troper wears a purple (okay it's not pink but) bathrobe with a snowflake design and wears fuzzy pink piggy slippers and doesn't feel any less manly even if his buddies see him.

This Troper's father once bought an ({{Absurdly Sharp|Blade}}) Mikuzu kitchen knife. Which is covered in pink lacquer with a pink plastic handle.

This troper has been a die-hard fan of Bret "Hitman" Hart for years, so himself wearing pink isn't a big deal. However, he absolutely HATES dressing his 3 year old and 1 year old DAUGHTERS in it.

You don't laugh at a rugby player. Not even if he dresses like this.

Some of the most badass guys I know wear makeup.

One of my cousins is longcoat wearing, kickboxing BadassBookworm...who is also a ribbon wearing, crossdressing (when he isn't wearing his signature longcoat) YamatoNadeshiko. Don't ask me, I'm confused too, and no picture. He's a shy person and would not like that.

This troper's father is a rather tall man whose arms are covered in tattoos (and he cuts the sleeves off of his long-sleeved shirts in summer to show them off). He's also a hardcore biker. He keeps a journal full of poetry. This troper is not sure which of these she should be embarrassed about.

Not sure if this is a ''perfect'' example, but this troper started wearing a denim miniskirt over his jeans. Apparently, I have the legs to complement the skirt despite posessing otherwise masculine traits. Grandma's the only one who made an issue out of it, ignoring the fact that at my age she probably did her fair share of gender role reversals in a time when men sporting a ducktail cut and leather jacket was the most subversive moral danger society faced.

This (female) troper honestly admires any boy/man who can shamelessly admit to having "girlish" traits or not liking "boyish" things. She knows a boy who, while not exactly "girlish", doesn't like too many things considered masculine and prefers to hang out with girls than boys. He gets teased for it (especially with gay jokes), but he never even seems to be fazed by the teasing.

This troper's group of friends in highschool, all in their own ways stereotypically manly, until both Jassy and myself arrived. Now before I get to the really manly, each and everyone of the male populous of the group can now say, with pride, including myself, that he has worn make-up, crossdressed as a french maid, played female roles perfectly in a Shakespearian play, read the Twilight series, and drink daily cups of tea. The manliest of us, T B R M and myself, are all stated of being frightening monsters, T can beat people to death with a truck, B has the most manliest beard ever to grace the school, R is a more masterful Naruto than Naruto, M radiates buffness, and I have been known to stare people into submission. And yet T has gained a career as a florist who can identify any type of flower with just a quick whiff, B wears pink on a regular basis, R is a whizz in the kitchen with his floral apron, M and his girlfriend Jassy are always serving people at any party they host, both in full french maid outfits, and I myself am so sensitive that I make J.D. look like Action Man by comparison

This troper wears a custom neon pink boiler suit as head engineer of the school's race team. And it is ''awesome.'' Has the SOS brigade logo on the back, too.

When this troper was in band in high school, he recalls one year the trumpet section (about 30 people, only one or two of which were female) had section t-shirts that read "Trumpets: We're Man Enough to Wear Pink"

This troper has made a lifestyle out of combining this trope with ProudToBeAGeek. Now, my clothes are all gender appropriate, but I have a Twilight calendar hanging up in my room and an Eclipse cloth poster on the right wall. I've read all of the books in that series and watched the movies. (Admittedly I did find the books boring after I finished.) Furthermore, you're more likely to find a sappy love song on my Zune than a hard rock song, although there are a few of those too. And I will shamelessly admit to any of these details. Basically, I take pride in being as unmasculine as possible. (Is that a word? Unmasculine?)

Where this troper lives, in many circles coolness has undergone a complete inversion, and pink has barely any feminine connotations, unless the wearer is already patently uncool. The only people who will mock a male wearing pink are the "true" cool people (i.e. the gangstas and a few bogans), who in turn are mocked by the "inverted" cool people for being outdated and boring.

My mother knew a church lady who was making (I think) a set of gloves, a scarf, and a beanie with pink material for a US Colonel. From what I gather, neither the lady nor the colonel thought there was anything odd or unmanly about such items. Then again, there's no way of knowing if the colonel actually wore any of the items, or if he just thanked her and hid them away.

Both subverted (or is it Double Subverted?) and played straight with this troper. I have no lisp and don't really act feminine in really anyway (As far as I know), but the fact remains that I like whatever the hell I like. If this means liking "guy stuff" like cars, guns/weaponry, heavy metal/rock/hip-hop, and "guy movies" like Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Terminator 2, Aliens, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, etc. while also loving "girly" things like Ballet/Dance, Unicorns (though only if they talk like fat chain smoking guys from New Jersey), Purple, Madonna, Lady Gaga, {{Degrassi}}, mixed drinks, some fashion, and "girly movies" like Moulin Rouge, Titanic, Gone With the Wind, Sleeping Beauty, and Teen Witch (okay, I love it because it's campy and hilarious). I try to like things based simply on my own personal appeal, rather than what's ''supposed'' to appeal to me. Part of the subversion comes from the fact, though, that by itself, I ''really'' dislike the color pink, or really super bright purple. Pink and purple together? Great, as long as pink isn't the dominant color, but pink by itself? Nuh-uh. But as said before, Purple is totally fair game for me. Maybe all this comes hand in hand with being Bi.

I'm 6'2", have a goatee and beard and hair touching my collar, and the laces on my shoes are purple. But I've never really seen this as a particularly unmanly color. Probably where I most fit this trope is my light blue shirt with Rainbow Dash's cutie mark that I wear all the time.