I’m a straight middle-aged man who regularly wears pink shirts and sometimes pink pants. I honestly don’t think anyone has ever given me any kind of look and I’m not the least bit self-conscious about pink clothing.

11 years ago, I was dropping my daughter off at kindergarten and a kid walked up and said, “Hey! boys can’t wear pink!” I smiled and said, “Whoever told you that was wrong.” That’s the only time I’ve ever seen anything.

Is there something specific about sneakers?

I’m going to hazard a guess that it might be Romanian. Romanian has the letter ș, which is an “s” with a comma beneath. Wikipedia. It wasn’t part of the Unicode standard until 3.0, so people used ş, which is an “s” with a cedilla.

I have the modern Romanian keyboard on my phone, so I can easily type ș, but not ş. I can see how that would have broken during the changeover to Unicode 3.0.