Girls - Pink / Boys - Blue ?

Errr..

From what I've observed, quite a majority of the girls who supposedly "hate pink" say this to avoid being generalized (please don't respond saying "BUT I REALLY HATE IT!", because I'm not saying all girls do). This I find to be ridiculous. Is it because I was born with female chromosomes that makes the color pink so appealing to me? Hardly. I find most colors appealing, regardless of their connotations (with exceptions, such as sewege green). It's color.

Pink is associated with femininity very strongly, and has been for decades; we are brought up assaulted on all sides by what is "the norm" for our genders. You like pink? Well pink is girly-- you must either be a prepubescent girl, a ghastly bubblegum snapper or gay. For girls, well, we avoid these stereotypes by rejecting them. Guys will make them a jest.

So to tell the truth, I've never met anyone who associated blue with men, being the popular color that it is. Pink seems to be the problem in terms of generalization and gender-stereotyping. Blegh, it's all frustrating and annoying. The most feminine color I can think of is deep royal purple, often because I associate that with a queen or something majestic.

For the record, my favorite colors are the yellow ones. o3o Forget the other primary colors!

.. I forgot what my point was half way through. D: Ew.
 
I'm a girl who likes pink... <_<

The stereotype is bs nonetheless. It's a colour. That doesn't have to do with anything else whatsoever.
 
I'm against all kinds of stereotyping so naturally I find instantly associating a certain color with a certain gender utterly ridiculous. I'm a boy and I like pink and most other shades of red as well. I also like blue, but I prefer red to be honest. But then again, I'm as far from any stereotype as you can get. Everyone should have the right to like which ever damn color they want without being stereotyped because of it. A man who dresses in pink is far manlier than all the people criticizing him for doing so.
 
I don't think this is true. It is stereotypical. My favourite colour is blue. I loooove it and I always have <333
 
Vegeta said:
Noooooo! Real men do NOT wear pink. I would not be caught dead wearing that color, it's demeaning really...
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I'd like you to define "real man" for me. With a response like that, probably has a subtext that says "FAIRIES AIN'T REEL MEN."

I wear pink and I'm not ashamed of it. Also, purple. I don't need someone else's approval to wear what I do.

For the record, I think the gender options idea would be nice on PC. It'd be nice for someone to recognize that there are people who don't fit into gender nicely, such as moi.
 
I have worn pink before and other boys in my school wear pink.

I don't see why it is blue for boys and pink for girls. I never see that many girls in pink tops at school and none of the girls in my family wear pink clothes that often either.
 
to tell you all truthfully i have to say, does it really matter? i mean there are other important things in the world that we have to worry about. Not only that, it's only natural for someone to think girls like pink and boys... well... like all the other colours. Why? it's just the way people are, i mean you wouldn't expect a girl to like rap but there are girls who like it.
 
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