So here's an article about the formation of pink and blue for little boys and girls. OHH American Culture. Or is is Western Culture? We may never know.
Underneath are two replies that I find perticularly intersting.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-Start-Wearing-Pink.html
"The color switch happened because around WWII nazis marked homosexual men with a pink triangle and so pink became associated with being "anti-masculine" and "effeminate." in order to maintain strong masculine color coding and education blue previously 'girlie' (think virgin mary) colors were traded for pink colors. Parents raised their children with colors according to the connotations that those colors held. once pink became feminized - it was no longer suitable for categorizing masculine boys." -Allie Oct. 24 2011
"I think it's interesting that the majority of comments on this article are about girls, and pink clothing, and girls that like pink but still like to climb trees, and girls who shouldn't have their choices dictated, etc etc etc. But hardly anyone is saying "my boy likes pink and I'm okay with that" or "my boy likes tea parties and dresses and I encourage that." Why it is okay for a girl to behave like a boy, but not for a boy to behave like a girl? Is it because, no matter how enlightened we think we are and how much we think we are not dictated by advertising and societal attitudes, we still think that boys are the "stronger" gender and we think that it's okay for a girl to reach "up" to masculinity but not for a boy to reach "down" to femininity. I mean, really, if you saw a little girl walking towards you in a blue shirt and jeans, you would probably think that her mother was doing a really good job of not defining her, but what would you think if a woman pushed a pram towards you with a baby in a frilly pink dress and then you found out it was a boy??" -Lauren Aug. 9 2011
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