In my entrepreneurship class, we have successful entrepreneurs come and talk to the class about their journey, the mistakes they made: their life story. Yesterday, we held a panel of three successful entrepreneurs, each in the natural foods business. There were two men and a woman. One of the guys caught my attention as he was wearing a pink shirt. Normally, this wouldn't be something that would catch my eye, but I noticed how muscular he was, even though he was wearing a suit.
As the class ended, I went to talk to him. As our conversation progressed, I felt that he was displaying hegemonic masculinity, in a very pressured way. This exprience made me think more about men who wear pink shirts. I realized that men in the media, namely in movies or television shows, display hegemonic masculinity more than normal hegemonic men. Excessively muscular men, wearing pink shirts, show hegemoic masculinity, but the sense of being overly muscular to display that they still are a "man's man," in a sense to continue having control over women. However, though many men wear pink shirts to show their sensitive side, which is still displayed as hegemonic masculinity because it's for "getting" girls.
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