Re: the Anti-pink posse

What is with the anti-pink brigade lately? I'm no fan of pink personally but to attack a colour is just a scapegoat for people who refuse to take responsibility for their own failings.

My mother has achieved things with transit vans, motor grease and toolboxes that are deserving of an engineering degree. She worked all through my childhood in the textiles industry and yet she is the one who wears pink and pastels and rolls her eyes every time she sees me wearing anything khaki or otherwise camo coloured. But for all the green and grunge in the world of the two of us I'm still the fashion diva, and stay at home mother, as I chose to be.

The truth is colour has jack to do with gender roles and stereotypes, you like what you like, and you do what you want do.
Colour (despite what some will claim) has nothing to do with function.

There is no use blaming a colour for brainwashing you into a stereotype, when the truth is you haven't achieved what you want because you have a flocking attitude. Also for this reason I can see no reason why pink would turn a male child gay either (not that that would be the worst thing, even if you weren't OK with it.).

Eric Spain:

Wow, just wow. Awesome post! This has definitely got me thinking. My main thought is this:
This whole mess just smacks of hidden sexism. At face value, it looks like it's just not okay to be a girl, unless you are a girl. Women have come a long way, but has it just pushed down these misconceptions lower to where it's not as visible. Now it seems that "equality" means that girls can be boys too and do boy things, because boys are better. Wait what??!? I thought equality meant equal, in both directions.
I might just be stating what everyone already thinks is obvious, but I really hadn't noticed it before, and the more I look, the more I see it everywhere. Not just media, but in conversations people have, and the way they act towards each other. People might not be sexist, but their expectations and notions are.
This has made me annoyed now. It very much seems less "Men and Women are equal." and much much more "Women can be Men too." and that's definitely not the message I want in the world.

1 year ago             11 Likes
(In reply to pinkstinks.org.uk/cgblog/20/25/What-about-boys-Part-2.html)

I found a picture of my
mother as a child! :P

I wont be having many pink kids toys in the house, mostly because I think it's an eyesore in large or frequent doses, but should my son or daughter want one of their own accord I will grant them some pink in moderation. Any girl that wants enough to play with a bow and arrow and shoot her siblings one moment then pretend to be the incredible Hulk the next will do so, and with no need or want of approval. I certainly didn't, and like myself I don't expect my daughter to need or seek the approval of either adult or peer alike.