In my women studies class, we were having a discussion on colors and gender. women are always assoicated with pink and men with blue. We concluded that the reason why people believe that is because we are conditioned to believe that. As soon as us females were born, pink is immediately what our parents dress us in and its what is around us. As with guys and the color blue. I guess the reason for my post is because this is my first time in the Women's issue section and the background is pink! Why do we have to be conditioned to the color pink? I thought it was interesting. I know, this is rather random but I just decided to post it. What is your take. And for the record... in the future when i have my children, I am going to introduce them to tie dye as soon as they are born.
*shrugs* many of the backgrounds here are pink or purple based. Relationships (http://www.hipforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=65) has the same background as here. And I'd call Love and Sex's (http://www.hipforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13) girlier than this one, personally
As late as the Victorian times, pink was considered a "boy's color." It was considered "too strong" for young girls, so they were dressed in white or light blue, yello ect. Baby boys were often dressed in pink, as it was beleived to be "strong" color. These color associations are not long held, nor are they common in all cultures. In the middle east, India ect, men frequently wear pink. Putting baby girls in pink is a middle 20th century Western idea.
I am a girl/women/whateverfemale and I was never dressed in pink. Even my Barbies didn't wear pink Up to this day, I don't wear pink . But I support the idea, that assigning certain colors to certain genders is kind of stupid. I think everyone can wear/like every color. And when I have kiddos, they will be dressed in every color. Not pink for girls and blue for boys.
I was a baby of all colours--pink, blue, yellow, green, orange, red, brown, purple, and white. I actually had very little pink and mostly yellow and purple.
yeah, just because I have a vagina doesn't mean I feel any gender-identity with the colour pink. My son has a penis (as sons tend to) and I made a strong effort to avoid dressing him in blue, blue and more blue. He wears a lot of green, and yellow... his blankets are mostly greens, purples and yellows. I told people that we weren't doing the colour = gender thing, so they gave us gifts accordingly.
My mum never dressed me in pink. I actually cannot recall any photographs of me in pink. I was in blue and white a lot. And my mum also didn't tell people she was having a girl, so no pink gifts were in order. Thank god.
Apparently I LOVED pink when I was much younger. But I've seriously grown out of that, the only pink I own are undies and that's because they were on sale
yea but why? i think its an interesting question... of course anyone can wear any color, and of course middle 20th century Western babygirls arent all dressed in pink. it doesnt really add anything to say "i kno a babygirl whos dressed in all colors". eh. i kno that pink is considered a girly color and yea its silly that we're conditioned by that idea without any reason
I don't know why pink is now, as of the last 100 years or less, considered a "girl" color. It is an interesting thing to study. {Kicks gravel mumbles and looks at ground} I like pink........my baby girls often wore pink........unless I had handmedowns in boy clothes. {shuffle}
I remember when I was little, I LOVED pink. Had a pink blanket that I wrapped around myself all the time like a hooded cloak, and my dad would call me "princess"... by the time I was 7-8, I HATED pink, I thought it was too "girly" and "cutsie" and didn't want anything to do with it. Now, I can appreciate it in small amounts but honestly my complextion is too bright pink also, when I wear pink I feel like a big blown up strawberry or something... Interesting topic though, I guess I never really thought too much about it....
Thats something I never actually thought about... I guess its just "tarditional" and thats why most female children are dressed in pink and blue for a boy.
Interesting. In most of my baby pictures I'm naked. I used to walk down the hall and take all of my clothes off. It figures, I still think clothes make me look stupid and would much rather be naked (though it is hard to find a job, nude). But my favorite baby picture is where I'm wearing a white and red dress. It is quite frilly and it has little puppies on the little pockets. To this day my favorite color is red. I have no clue what colors I had as a baby. All of my blankets and stuff were yellow and green though. I was born back before they could tell the baby's gender.
I think it's just another one of those arbitrary "lets separate the sexes" things that western cultures seem to have such an obsession with. there's usually a very weak reason behind these things, and it makes you wonder how they gained such a cultural significance
I was dressed in lots of pink as a baby because it matched my complexion. I still wear lots of pink because it's the color that looks best of me. When my brother was little, he wore lots of yellow because it was his favorite color, and he looked like a little sunbeam because he has white-blonde hair and bright yellow overalls on all the time.
my mom hardley ever dressed me in pink because she knew i wasnt a girly girl at all. i do like pink now but not lodes of it. i dont like how its pink things for girl babies & blue for boy babies, when i knw someone is having a baby i never buy a card that says the sex on or anything i just buy a congrats on birth of baby card. when i have babys i'm gona ask for everything in white so i cvan tie dye it all!
When I was 5, my kindergarten class took a trip to the hospital... All I remember asking was what colour the boy babies were when they were born... They showed us a newborn baby girl and she was all pink.. Apparently I associate gender with colour...
i love pink, and purple mostly, but orange, lime and read are good colors to me.. i hate seeing men wearing plain red or orange or pink, these colors arent for them!
I don't think any color belongs to one specific gender, however, I have to question your opinion of orange. Huh? Like construction worker orange, pumpkin orange, burnt orange, or do you mean like coral and peach. Because I don't see orange as very feminine at all. It is one of my 3 most absolute favorite colors (hot pink, red and orange all together) and I used it to decorate my living room and I have quite a bit of orange in my wardrobe, but I do not know one other single female who actually wears orange as regularly as I do. I was just surprised by this comment is all. And red, I have never associated that with either gender either as I believe it is quite neutral. I like guys in red and orange, and pink would be ok, but it depends on the outfit. Men in red are hot though, I mean not in red dress and red stilleto heels, but in a red sweater or button down. Nice.
