The rose gold iPhone is causing a global crisis in masculinity (2024)

Just look at that pretty pink hue, boys. You crave the newest color on the newest model of the world’s most popular phone but can’t stop thinking "pink is for girls" or "pink is gay." You hate yourself for wanting it, and you’re scared; what will people think if you pre-order a bigger better rose gold iPhone 6S Plus to 3D Touch late at night? How will the guys respond when they see you Apple Pay a round of beers with it at the ballpark?

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Cautiously you extend a leg, plié, and dip your pointed toe into the hostile waters of Twitter to find out lol.

Is it gay to get the rose gold iPhone ?? Lol

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— Shomari (@Clutch_Mari) September 12, 2015

I know it's gay af but I really want the rose gold iPhone lol

— Eric of the Canals (@notEricUribe) September 12, 2015

AUTO_LINK_TOKEN_2_AUTO_LINK_TOKEN I wish the rose gold wasn't gay lol I'd def get it

— Hammer Boy (@Michael__McQ) September 15, 2015

It’s then that you see that your fears were unfounded. Sure, some responses are laced with a hom*ophobic taint (this is Twitter, after all) but they’re the fringe, the hom*ophobesare now the minority. Mostly, nobody cares — nobody but the insecure men who crave a pink object.

imagine being so insecure about your masculinity to feel like a rose gold iphone makes you "gay"

— danielle (@danivirayy) September 15, 2015

In fact, searching Twitter for "rose gold gay" or the more hateful "rose gold fa*g" reveals an overwhelmingly staunch defense for the color pink against any kind of sexual orientation, even though relatively few people were making those accusations in the first place.

So, chill. If you like the pink iPhone then buy the pink iPhone. Hell, buy two. Nobody cares but you.

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