Pink for a, er, boy

[Becky]

I bet we can all think a more sissyish ending to this story...

[Elfy]

I do like the second comment in the comments section though:

[gah!ghost]

Pink was a masculine color prior to WWII. I believe George Washington's favorite wig color was pink. Color related to gender is a fairly recent thing and is very likely to change in the future. Hell it already has here and there. Pink has fallen in and out of favor with men as a popular color many times over the last few decades.

[Dubious]

If i wasnt male I would wear pink... or maybe purple..

[DailyDi]

I wear pink all the time. I look better in bright colors. And I have pink plastic pants... But that doesn't really help my manly pink argument

[gah!ghost]

I wore more pink when I was younger but still wear a lot of purple. Purple is my favorite color… obviously. It's really hard to find stuff in purple though. I think it's gotta be the least commonly used color.

[Baby Brian]

Funny how pink and blue have swapped genders from 50 years ago. Believe it or not but Pink used to be a truly manly color.

[gah!ghost]

Yeah, I found that out about a year ago and tell anyone I can about it. The more I find out, the more I realize that so much of the social beliefs and trends in the US in particular didn't really exist pre-WWII. The color thing is the easiest to talk about without someone yelling at you and it's pretty damn crazy.

[puffybedwetter]

We're all pink on the inside

[CDLover]

I much prefer pink and pastel yellow plastic pants!

[Honeywell6180]

It's just human nature and biology, that the male human gender is going to protect his manliness.

[gah!ghost]

That's assuming 10 years down the line the world has the same cultural "standards" as they do now, which isn't neccesarilly going to be the case. It also assumes their bedroom will be the same when they're 10 as when they're a baby which in my experience also isn't true. The only thing you accomplish by telling your child pink is for girls and blue is for boys is that your child will think pink is for girls and blue is for boys.

[shveddiapersissy]

It's kind of a shame to force a child to have to deal with "accepted norms"

[babystevie]

I'm wearing pink plastic panties right now. Yesterday I wore yellow ones. Tomorrow maybe blue ones. Color means nothing to me.

[Codymoogle]

NEW RULE! At birth children are assigned a color based on the day of the week.

Sunday - yellow

monday - orange

tuesday - blue

wednesday - red

thursday - green

friday - pink

saturday - purple

[gah!ghost]

I haven't a clue on what day I was born. Just looked it up though and apparently it was a Monday. Orange is probably my least favorite color. Of the primary and secondary colors I'd probably rank them from favorite to least…

[WakkoWannaBe]

My favorite shirt is mainly pink. I agree with that second comment.

[gah!ghost]

There was a time in our fairly recent past where gender was pretty much ignored until puberty, which actually makes a lot of sense.

[DiaperPony]

I never told my kids pink is for girls... commercials, toys, etc tell them. Yet when I embraced the colo pink, my kids (4 and 5 at the time) told me pink is for girls.

I've heard that pink toys or packaging help a girls toy sell much better than other colors.. so companies will continue to reinforce this.

[FretaBWet]

The baby won't have a favorite color, nor will it know which colors society links to each gender until later. I like the idea of painting 2 of the opposing walls blue and leaving the other 2 pink. We'll never approach a more gender neutral society if we're painting the walls one color or the other.

[gah!ghost]

You could always just go with purple. I think that's part of what I like about it so much. Red and Blue are always opposing colors be it gender or whatever. Purple kinda takes neutral ground in the red (or pink aka light red) vs blue business.

[Alberta Pampers]

I got pink Bambinos now, they are cute. Check them out

[Floaty_Boy]

I'm not sure what a gender neutral society would even be?

[gah!ghost]

Yup, said well Floaty.

[DiaperPony]

I certainly can't speak for Floaty_Boy, but here's my take: it would be sillly to pretend there is no masculine or feminine. We all have differences, but there is no need for a person to harshly judge someone based on how masculine or feminine they are.