Posted on 11/18/2023 7:43:34 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
“I might get a little razzing for wearing pink,” says Clements, a construction contractor. “My friends will absolutely give me a lot of crap. But they give me a lot of crap anyway.”
...Matt Davis, the founder and owner of Final Rise, initially stayed away from offering gear in pink. “There’s a lot of gals out there that just get pissed off whenever you throw pink on something,” he says. “They feel it’s downgrading them as hunters, that they’re not as good as guys.”
“To me it was not a gender issue, it was a safety issue,” he adds. “A dead hunter is a dead hunter, not a macho hunter.”
Greg Howdeshell, a hunter in Dallas, shuns the thought of wearing pink. “I think I would get shot here in Texas if I get caught hunting in pink,” he say
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Years ago research was done by the Coast Guard on what kind of survival suit is most visible. The answer was PINK, not the usual International Orange. So, oil companies in the North Sea rolled out the PINK survival suits (Gumby Suits they were called). They were roundly rejected. People also called them BRU, Body Recovery Units since life expectancy was not all that long in them anyway. All the shortness of life expectancy were were taught in survival school in Aberdeen made me wonder how anyone could have possibly survived a sinking in the wars on the Murmansk Run or any other in such an environment.
For some hunters, it is due to laws.
“Orange Requirement. During the firearm deer season in Georgia, all deer, bear and feral hog hunters (as well as those accompanying them) must wear at least 500 square inches of Hunter (Blaze) Orange on outer garments, above the waist.”
Wouldn't be construction work without it ! :-)
Why? Because it “shows” dirt.
It was probably ‘Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney’s PR firm that came up with the idea.
Green is the last color seen at night before it “gray’s out”. A neon green and blue stripe/pattern would be better.
An interesting article, even though Pointillism and the sewer rat guy make my brain hurt! Still, very cool stuff.
From your link,“Pink is real – or it is not – but it is just as real or not-real as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.”
Reminds me of a footnote from The Odyssey, Ancient Greeks could see the color blue, but they didn’t consider it to be separate from other colors like green and purple. They didn’t have a word for blue. They called the ocean wine dark.
Also fun discussions on the color brown.
—”Afraid of being shot for a fashion faux pas.”
And after all this time, I thought that NVA grunt shot me for political reasons.
Did you return the favor?
I’m going to keep on wearing brown with a set of antlers.
But I wear a red nose because nobody would shoot Rudolph.
Saw a neighbor’s two teenage boys wearing pink pussyhats one day. Nearly puked.
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Obviously on their way to public school. Or home to a domineering mother and no father around.
—”Years ago research was done by the Coast Guard on what kind of survival suit is most visible. The answer was PINK”
Years back a friend in the local fire commission was pumped up on yellow fire trucks being more visible than red ones.
They are still red.
Yeah, I thought of Dick Cheney too, but the guy he shot could have been colored like an Oompa Loompa and Cheney still would’ve shot him in the face. They were shooting shotguns in an open field and the guy had to be clearly visible.
All you need to know is the Seattle part. At least he hunts. That pink doesn’t look as visible to me as the standard orange hunters are used to watching for. Maybe the pink is for trans-hunters. We own some heavily wooded land that borders 8,000 acres of BLM. It’s hunting season so the wife and I wear our orange hats there now so any hunters who accidentally cross our property line will hopefully see us. Fencing a quarter-mile in heavy woods would be expensive. My private access road has a sign when you go through our gate that reads “If you can read this you are in range.”
Pink became associated with baby boys around the time of the First World War, and then associated with baby girls around the time of the second. It was a marketing gimmick. There may have been deeper cultural trends behind the change — somebody blamed Hitler and his pink triangles — but don’t underestimate the power of advertising.
Between me and my slackman, plus others...
Yes.
I’m not a hunter, but the two radically different schools of thought always puzzled me.
1. Wear camo so you blend in and the animals cannot see you.
2. Wear International Orange so other hunters can see you.
—”I’m going to keep on wearing brown with a set of antlers.”
The old deer camp story about the guy that put a small buck on his shoulders holding the front legs to carry his prize out of the woods...
Does not end well.
That’s only fair.
The regulations say nothing about "blaze pink"....
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