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    Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
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    Image of SYunker SYunker
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    Girls have to have a certain degree of confidence and looks to pull off pink. The writer of the article probably hides behind drab oversized sweatshirts, so of course she won't like these.
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    Image of libelle47 libelle47
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    Just a pedantic note.... "nauseous" means "inducing nausea." "Nauseated" means feeling/experiencing nausea.


    Thus these guitars are nauseous, and make me feel nauseated.

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    Image of MissRabbit MissRabbit
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    Wow, I really hate to admit this (hides in a corner in complete darkness) ...but i like pink and these aren't all that bad. They are different that's for sure.


    At least I can make my boyfriend puke and whip his a$$ in Guitar Hero/Rock Band at the same time with one of these.


    Perhaps the thrill isnt the guitar's themselves, it's watching people suffer from PINKitis from looking at them.

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    Image of BrawlerBarbie BrawlerBarbie
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    What's the problem here? I like pink & think those guitars are kinda cute. Small, but cute.
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    Image of Lazarus511 Lazarus511
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    I can think of much more interesting games than guitar hero that I could play w/ these two.
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    Image of Machismo Machismo
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    My wife would LOVE one of these to play in GH, Rock Band, etc on the 360. She is a pink freak, and I have to admit, she looks damn good in pink.


    Where the hell is the page on their site for these?

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    Image of The_Bronze The_Bronze
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    Hey, don't diss the Daisy guitar. I laughed at these things when I first saw them in the local music shop. Then the sales guy said "yeah, thats what I thought too, until I played it." So I picked it up, plugged it in and it ROCKED. Very good tone.


    And sorry to say, but at least one of my little girls would go ape shit if I brought home a flower shaped guitar in pink!

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    Image of BhavBhavBhav BhavBhavBhav
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    Hey, I consider myself a tech girl and I love pink. Having said that, I still find these controllers mildly insulting.
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    Image of TBM-Fan TBM-Fan
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    Pretty blond girls


    And yes there is a market for pink stuff, cause an ex of my loves to buy pink stuff

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    Image of korybing korybing
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    Man I've always hated that the entertainment industry thinks that girls won't play with something unless it's pink. I remember getting "girl" Legos when I was a kid, which were more expensive with less bricks and the only difference was that they came in various shades of pastel reds, pinks, and purples.


    These guitars look like Kingdom Hearts threw up all over them.

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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    I would only don the best of Prince frills and eye shadow when melting faces with these guitars in Rock Band.
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    Image of twreckx is Naija서울 twreckx is Naija서울
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    For me the hatred has gotten so bad that any known associates of pink (you know who you are, purple!) just makes me puke. Which is quite sad really.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    I know lots of girls that just despise pink because it became a stereotype to "womanizing men's stuff".


    You know... making an iPhone pink to appeal to women's market, painting a soccer ball pink to say women play soccer too, and other crap like that.


    Kinda sad, because I like women who dress pink clothes (and I don't mean girls who has pink clothes, furniture, house, shoes, hair, etc etc).


    But I don't blame them.

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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/07/08

    I am with Elaine, I hate pink gadgets, they are so condescending. (My little girl loves them, but she is a little girl so its ok.)
    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Wearing pink is one thing, even though I dont much since it clashes with my hair, but having pink gadgets is another. Dont even get me started on Hello Kitty gadgets.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    Looks every bit as crappy as a Daisy Rock guitar.


    You know, when my little sister asked me for a guitar for her Sweet 16, I didn't get her a "girl" guitar; I rehabbed an old Les Paul I had and gave it to her.

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/07/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: Did she lift weights? I'm a pretty fit 30 year-old, and Les Pauls are still heavy. Get her a Strat and put some Lace Sensors in it. Then you can get the crunch and sustain without the boat anchor.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/07/08

    @badhatharry: Hell no.


    She got a battle-scarred 1980 Les Paul Firebrand with the original T-Top PAF pickups. I swapped out the nickel hardware for gold and the black trim for cream.


    The damn guitar drank about a dozen applications of oil because it had sat in my closet for years. I oiled down the fretboard (ebony with dots and frets in solid condition) and debated giving in a coat of nitro.

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/07/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: So, not a Fender fan?
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/07/08

    In reply to Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers
    Girls trying to look bad while holding pink toy guitars shaped as a heart?


    Its like...A huge Rambo-Style guy with a pink bazooka, you don't take it too serious.

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