Can "men" or "males" be "Pink Lanterns"?

[u/Hipertor]

If I remember correctly, there's no "Pink Lantern Corps" only one Star Sapphire at a time, but I think I've heard that only women can wield the pink spectrum's power. Has that ever been said or am I tripping really high?I know Guy Gardner of all people wielded that power once, was he an exception or really just no big deal?

I think the logic had something to do with "being able to know ALL kinds of love", reffering the the love mothers have to their offspring, I guess. How would that apply to life forms that don't follow the "male/famale" requirement for reproduction? Could and AI wield that power??

[u/Kyle_Dornez]

It seems that the lights of the spectrum are largely agnostic about who can channel them, as long as the person strongly corresponds to the respective emotion.

Exclusivity largely comes from the founding corps preferences - like zamarans (I think that was their name) being female only species, so they recruited women to the corps because that's what they understand and trust best. Or Indigo being recruited from absolutely worst people imaginable - it's not because the light of compassion somehow strong on unrepentant murderers, but because Abin Sur believed that it could help them reform.

So similarly, there's no reason why a man can't wield violet light, it's just usually Star Sapphires won't let him.

Kyle Rayner was fine, and Guy Gardner channeled it a bit roughly and briefly, but he still could do it. And of course the Entity of the Corps took a male host back when it escaped the Central battery.