The perfect reply . . .

. . . came from someone called mzy:

"In Nature the males of the species are the flamboyant, beautiful creatures and the females are the plain ones. It is only in the last century that men in our civilization have NOT been wearing lace and elegant fabrics. Don't forget that most of the founding fathers probably wore powdered wigs! My point is that fashions do change. Just because a male likes what is considered to be female attire does not make him feminine. I wish that we could teach our children to look past what people wear and consider the substance of their character."

I italicized the best and most important part of that reply. I myself like colorful clothes. I have a variety of pink shirts, and several in other colors. I have at least one shirt that is shiny gold and another that's shiny silver. I like jewelry too. Not because I'm a particularly ostentatious person but because a) I resent the notion that masculinity is so pigeon-holed, and b) it works nicely to counteract my social anxiety because it makes me feel a little more self-confident. I'm an artist; I like beauty. It's only natural that I would want to wrap myself in it.