“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,'” Thomas Ricker writes for The Verge.
“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?” Ricker writes. “How will the guys respond when they see you Apple Pay a round of beers with it at the ballpark?”
Ricker writes, “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
— Shomari (@Clutch_Mari) September 12, 2015
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MacDailyNews Take: We’re not touching that question with a ten-inch, uh… ten-foot pole. 😉
For the record, the heterosexual males here at MacDailyNews have had gold iPhones previously (iPhone 5s) which were chosen as much for the looks as for the resale value. We currently have iPhone 6 Plus models in Space Gray and have pre-ordered our iPhone 6s Plus models in Space Gray because, after the year spent with the 5s units, we found we prefer the classic black face for iPhone vs. the white face (found on the gold, rose gold, and silver models) which we feel competes a bit too much with the display. If Apple offered iPhones with black faces in other colors, we’d have a decision to make. For us, it’s all about the iPhone’s face, which we want to disappear not gleam, so the Space Gray models are our only option.
Susan Silverman says the word ‘gay’ was just another word for ‘lame,’ so we must quit using it because now that the homosexuals, the Media, and the Marxists have hijacked ‘gay’ (check out your Apple dictionary which does not acknowledge the original meaning which was exuberantly happy).
I suspect MDN will be hearing from the Twitter police shortly.
Unless, of course, the meant that ‘gay’ was meant to be interpreted as homosexual….
Oh, wait, I think that may be illegal as well….
Why should it matter. It’s 2015 gay straight who cares. Labels suck.
Says the guy with hippie in his profile name… 😉
What.
The.
Fsck.
Everybody knows gay men love gold – not silver, not titanium, not uranium. Besides, we’ve already begun our collection of gold iPads, iPhones and MacBooks and we’d never be caught mismatched. So rose gold is for the ten-foot poles and boys who wish they had them. 😜
Noooooo
Yes! it is so gay
If you’re wearing denim and drinking beer, then yes, the pink phone is gay.
If you’re wearing a suit and sipping Scotch, then the rose gold phone is elegant good taste.
“…we found we prefer the classic black face for iPhone vs. the white face…which we feel competes a bit too much with the display”
I prefer the contemporary white rather than the stodgy black primarily because the black creates too much contrast against the screen (desirable for watching videos and games, though) and detracts from the simplicity of the screen.
Well I’m gay, and not too sure I’d want rose gold (mainly about the white face though.)…so all you worried straight guys can be secure in your sexuality! Lol
But really won’t a case cover it anyhow? I had to take my case off to recall what color 6 I had!
I’m been gay my whole life but I’ve never been a homosexual.
What a silly question. In what way do colors have gender or sexuality. Colors are wavelengths of light interpreted by our eyes and brains. They have no gender. A hundred years ago in the US baby boys were dressed in pink because it was thought to be a strong masculine color, while the softer cooler blue was reserved for baby girls.
It’s all relative and very manufactured. Don’t let other people tell you what a color can or can not be used for.
Americans are always very slow to abandon bigotry. Racism prevails and homophobia too…
The best approach is to buy what you like and wear it. If other people have a problem then this just reflects their lack of sophistication and worldliness. Tell them to look up the word “passport”, go get one, and see something of the world outside the USA.
“the heterosexual males here at MacDailyNews”
As if MDN has an actual staff, why have we never seen a pict of the MDN staff? One man show, the often referred to Steve Jack, who’s most likely the ghost writer for first 2014-16
PEOPLE may be homosexual or straight. Colors are not sexual or gender specific. It’s 2015 people.
Gosh, you removed my top 10 list that was FUNNY. You folks seriously lack a sense of humor.
Wow! your homophobia (not to say your insecurity) is quite apparent. You’re fortunate you don’t work for a legitimate employer. You’d be fired in a heartbeat.
Tell me about it, MDN is becoming a leader of censorship of free speech. I guess the can talk the talk but are incapable of walking the walk.
And yet your comment wasn’t censored.
All this talk has me wondering, is MDN’s readership 100% male? Are there any women or girls here? Any?
I certainly hope so! There aren’t enough of us around and it would be nice to be able to have a quick identifier 🙂