Frito & Dorito Present: Guys in Pink

Is there a limit to manliness?

By Laura Spencer and Ola Koppel
Published Friday, December 12, 2008

It’s not hard to see that fashion styles are expressive of individual personalities. One week, it’s leg warmers; another week, it’s bandanas around necks. Here at Bell, the new trend is guys in PINK shirts.

Dorito: Finally!
Frito: Excuse me?! Guys in pink shirts is GAY!
Dorito: Well, excuse me?! It’s HOT!
Frito: Are you kidding me? Not cool.
Dorito: Pink on a guy shows their manliness.
Frito: Um - NO!
Dorito: Remember the survey? Half the people said ‘it takes a man to wear pink’.
Frito: No way is pink a manly colour.
Dorito: It totally is! Did you know people used to wrap their baby boys in pink because it was considered too strong a colour for girls?
Frito: (a) How did you know that? (b) Babies are not manly. And c’mon, if a guy has to wear pink to look macho, how macho is he?
Dorito: Some people wear black when they want to look sad. Why can’t guys wear pink to look macho? Besides, it shows that they’re confident individuals.
Frito: Confident?
Dorito: Yeah! A guy wearing pink obviously has a lot of self-confidence.
Frito: I don’t get it.
Dorito: They know that someone, like you, is gonna look at them and think Ugh! but they wear it anyway because they don’t care what people, like you, say.
Frito: Fine! But, you have to admit that some guys just don’t look good in it. Buff guys can sometimes pull it off. Skinny guys: never. The shade of pink matters, too.
Dorito: Isn’t it like that with all colours? Some guys look better in different styles, colours, whatever. You’re right about that.
Frito: Thank you!
Dorito: But that doesn’t mean that they can’t wear pink. And in our survey people said that both buff guys and skinny guys can look good in pink.
Frito: No - don’t tell them that! Some guys just can’t pull it off.
Dorito: Agreed: they’ll have to figure out what looks best on them.
Frito: That’s not what I -
Dorito: Look, if I can’t convince you, why don’t go talk to the other 22.5% of people at Bell who agree with you.
Frito: 22.5%? Get real.
Dorito: Most girls think it’s very sexual.
Frito: Don’t you mean sexy?
Dorito: No, I mean sexual.
Frito: Oh ... well ...
Dorito: Not feeling so tough now, huh? Guess what: those guys in pink are!
Frito: Lame.
Dorito: Let’s just say that once a wise man told me ‘If they can work it, it’s all good.’
Frito: Didn’t Marlaina say that?
Dorito: Yeah.
Frito: Thought so.
Dorito: You guys go, go, go!
Frito: OK, I get it. Want some Fritos?
Dorito: Ugh, no thanks. I got my Doritos here.
Frito: Those things are gross!
Dorito: You making fun of my Doritos?! Fritos are dog food, man!