In Honor Of April Fools, A Quick Note On The Gendering Of The Color Pink

[Anonymous]

Most people do not realize this, but red was considered the color of a man. As boys are male children, pink, literally a watered down shade of red, was the color of boys.

In the early 1900s, the suffragettes chose to appropriate the color pink for girls, in the first salvos of the gender equality movement. They were amazingly successful, and just about everyone alive today was born into an age where pink being equated with girls is just the norm. No one living likely remembers it being weird, or unfeminine.

So, the next time you hear an extremist feminist harpy bitching about how sexist it is that girls things are colored pink, tell her to shut the fuck up and actually learn something about the women who fought for the right for them to vote, who fought for rights they now take for granted.
Tell the to "educate themselves" about feminism. Do it just to piss them off :)

Oh, and if they are intersectional feminists who bitch about appropriation? Their forebearers literally appropriated pink from boys. Tell them that they bear the heritage of appropriation. Again, just to piss them off.

young boy in pink, an American painting, circa 1840

[Anonymous]

Red/pink has been the color for males since biblical times.
Blue was a female color.
This is why old art from the time usually shows women (like Mary) in blue and males are generally in Red shades.
Red was seen as an aggressive color and blue a softer color.

It wasn't the suffragettes that converted pink to a female color.
Mamie Eisenhower on the eve of her husband's inauguration in 1953 wore a pink dress because it was her favorite color. Jayne Mansfield immediately latched onto the color and She wore lots and lots of pink. She drove a pink car, got married in a pink gown, lived inside a pink mansion, and dyed her pets’ fur pink. She also had pink shag carpeting surrounding her heart-shaped bathtub. She explained that this was because "men want a girl to be pink, helpless, and do a lot of deep breathing." Statements like Jayne’s, along with Mamie’s general attitude, formed a connection in people’s minds between a woman wearing pink and a woman being a delicate creature.

[Mustachekitteh]

I hate pink, which due to being pale as a vampire on my upper arms and some other places. I do look pink and it's pretty annoying.

[Spiorad_Aisce]

Fascinating first part about the colour "Pink" but to be honest I can't be bothered getting into a point scoring exercise with anybody about but I am happy I learned something new today in the first half of your take.

[myTake Owner]

I'm not terribly serious about going out of your way to bug the loony branch of feminists. I certainly don't go out of my way to. But if I end up in a situation where it's not avoidable? Especially when they start in with their BS about patriarchy and how all men are potential rapists and everything else? It's nice to have ammo to throw back at them, just so you can smile and laugh as they get all flustered and angry.

[Spiorad_Aisce]

Braver man than me once all that crap starts I tune out.

[YourFutureEx]

This was informative :)

Feminists? Ewww... I just hope I don't need to talk to them
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[Fugue]

Well that escalated quickly in the 3rd paragraph. I was aware of the origin of the sexing of colors. Speaking of the suffragettes, did you know that when they became active, 80% of men in the UK couldn't vote?

And by the way I sometimes wear pink shirts because IDGAF.

[FallOutBoy2001]

Good for you 😂

I wear navy blue and red shirts for the same reason

[Fugue]

@FallOutBoy2001 If you are a boy, why would that matter? Pink is the only issue.

[BeeNee]

Geezus, I thought the same thing. I was reading something fairly intelligent for once and then it quickly got lost in, I should mess with other people who have an opinion and curse them out. Plus we can argue about the origins all we want, but those women are long dead. We're talking in the modern age the idea that women must be pink (echoed by GaG, toy industries, schools, parents) and boys blue, so much so that parents will not allow their children to wear certain colors because of their own fear or ignorance about a simple color that has nothing to do with a person's sexuality or gender.

[cipher42]

Where did you get the info that the suffragettes made pink feminine? Their colors were purple, white, and green, as far as I'm aware.

As for appropriation, that's just not how it works. Boys didn't invent the color pink, nor did they popularize it, nor was it somehow an important part of their culture. It just ain't the same.

[TadCurious]

I love it! This is great! I'm all for pissing off the intersectional feminazis! There's nothing like seeing the hypocrisies and internal contradictions of the PC Social Justice Warriors on full display!

[ThisDudeHere]

Nice take dude. I like learning about historical facts that go against the agenda of modern SJWs. Thank you for teaching.

[lime_rampljuset]

Colour preference does not has to do with gender.
Now, time to have fun with some feminazis.

[kdizzleforizzle91]

From my understanding, pink started being thought of as more feminine around the time of Hitler, who used pink triangles to identify homosexuals.

[myTake Owner]

why would women look at the way homosexuals were targeted in Nazi germany, and think to themselves "oh, i need to buy my new born daughter a dress inspired by and using the color in that oppression!"
also, why would late 1930s and 1940s persecution of gays in Germany effect the rise in the popularity of pink for girls in the 1910s and 1920s in the US?

[kdizzleforizzle91]

You have valid questions. I wasn't there, so I can't say. Like I said, that was the time frame I had learned the change happened.

[Becky01]

that little bit of info was something I knew alrady

[theegreat017]

Now somebody put it like it is! Bravo

[bluenose1872]

Little poof lol in the pic lol