Copied from someone on my fb: Found this really interesting: pink used to be considered a "masculine" color. Baby boys were dressed in pink, and baby girls were dressed in blue. That stopped after the Holocaust, when Hitler made pink an "effeminate" color by putting pink triangles on gay people to mark them for mass murder. "Masculine" and "feminine" colors are, and have always been, social constructs. the Ladies Home Journal in 1918 wrote, “There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.” It’s also said that since pink is closer to red, it was more appropriate for boys because red is a “fierce” color, whereas blue was associated with girls since the Virgin Mary is customarily dressed in blue.
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 05:12:21 +0000
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