Why was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
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Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls might seem strange to modern eyes and sensibilities, but up until the 1940’s a lot of people thought pink was the more masculine color and blue was clearly more feminine. So how did we end up in a world where it’s 100% confirmed that pink is the marker of all things girly and blue denotes boyhood? Well it’s a long strange story, so watch the episode to find out!
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Professor Jo B. Paoletti at the University of Maryland
Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America Jo B. Paoletti
Sex and Unisex: Fashion, Feminism, and the Sexual Revolution
The Secret Lives of Color ˆKassia St. Clair
Two questions I still have:
1. Why are the other colors gender neutral?
2. Why is it not a big deal for women to wear blue anymore, but there's a stigma against men wearing pink?
ZorroVulpes I think I can answer number 2 for you. Nowadays it’s generally acceptable for women to act/dress masculine but when men wear pink (a color that is associated w/ feminine stuff) it make them seem weak or soft (which still isn’t normally accepted by society)
Yeah, #2 is part of a whole thing: Women doing guy stuff is "cute" up to a point, whereas guys being girly is "EEEEWWW, GAY!!" Case in point: Names. Look how many names have gone from being a family name to being a male first name only to being androgynous and then a GIRL name only...and _then_ look how many have gone the other way.
...I can't think of _any_, off the top of my head.Heck, my own screen name is an example of that! :)
Patriarchy. It confines BOTH women and men
Might be some of the old christening rules for infants.
My mother often told me that babies must wear only white or yellow/lemon before they were christend in church, but we are in the UK so I duno about USA baptizement clothes rules
2.
Yeah. It's stupid. When I do see a guy wearing pink I find it odd, but cool. They're willing to break the normal clothing ideal
Summary: back in the day, people just wore clothes and wanted to reuse them when they had another kid. Nowadays, stores want you to spend more money so they advertise the need to buy new clothes and toys for every child.
Sean Pomeroy with my first child who is a boy we didn't find out if he was a boy or girl so we got a whole stash of gender neutral clothing now we are having a girl and already have what she needs for the first 6 months of her life. Yes we did get gender specific clothing for him when he was born and are getting gender specific items for her now too but we only have to get a couple cuz we have most of what she needs.
not always the case, but good point.
Amber Valancy same here 😊
@@jgvanv812 true, plus the girls toys/xlothes are always so patronising and shit..
Sean Pomeroy I had my son 4 years ago and I’m using his old clothes for my 3 month old baby girl.
The more I watch this channel, the more I’m beginning to realize how much of our culture has been driven and manipulated by consumerism...
Oh Yes. I heard that even diamonds engagement rings were pushed by a company/industry.
@@christianawilliams9101 Yes they were, personally when I get married I want a cheaper ring because they cost a fortune!
Now, you’re waking up, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
When you think about how much control social media has over peoples lives it gets kinda scary.
That's capitalism baby 😎
Pink used to be a boys' color, because it was lighter shade red, and red symbolized fire and masculinity. Blue was a girls' color, because it symbolized harmony and femininity.
@Sword Dance nobody argues that...
@@lazyowl95 most people argue that :(
I don’t see blue as feminine, It’s only the Westerns from the past who Viewed The color blue as feminine and pink as masculine.
@@Kyle-fn9tz their talking about the past
@@Kyle-fn9tz blue also used to be considered feminine since it’s the color of the Virgin Mary (wisdom, heaven, empress, Byzantine royalty). When people are talking about masculine/feminine colors, it’s about Western countries possibly with Christian influences. Shades of red (and pink was considered a shade of red in the ancient world) was more associated with Christ, representing the Holy Spirit, martyrdom, blood, his death on the Cross, fire (of passion. Fire also purify sins). Pink could be a mix of red and white, making it the color of “flesh and bone” as well as health and youth. Light, pastel shades of blue and red (aka pink) were used to tell the difference between boys and girls before they started wearing sex-distinguishable clothing, so the masculine-feminine association came to be. And because it was based on the Virgin Mary’s portrayal with deep blue & Jesus’s portrayal with fiery red, it became that way long ago.
My son has always preferred purple colors lol. Hes five and wears pink and purple flannels and black jeans and no one says anything
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Purple was only for royalty until the synthetic dye called “mauve” was invented in the 19th century (an interesting science history story in itself). Before mauve, since ancient times the only source of purple dye was a mollusk found in the Eastern Mediterranean, near modern Lebanon. The dye was called Tyrian Purple because it was sold by the merchants of Tyre to wealthy nobles and kings all over the Mediterranean world. It was very expensive, since you have to crush and boil a lot of those poor little critters to get a small amount of dye. This is the origin of the phrase “born to the Purple,” meaning of royal birth.
@@allanrichardson1468 so this person's kid likes to be royalty. Noice
Sameee.. I like purple
So what we have learned is that clothing is just fancy fabric that doesn't mean anything
kimonos come in different colors and chosen for/by the buyer according to their age.
Words are just sounds and don't have any meaning. just like clothes, they only have the meaning we assign them. so if we assign meaning to clothes, then they have meaning in the same way that words do.
@@theocaratic nvm I didn't understand what you were saying until I reread it sorry I'm so dumb lel 😝😶
*claps*
Wrong. It means what Nature says it means. Blue relates to Sky and Water. Green for Vegetation. If your child is a vegetable get him green? Hahaha. JK. Pink / Purple in nature is found in flowers and sunsets. Red is a color of blood, red rocks, lava. White is universally for clouds, light, and purity. Yellow is gold, wealth, and the Sun. Black is darkness. All Skin colors are the colors of dirt. Bible says we are dirt.
curiosity #1 blue, as a color associated with purity, was one of the favourites to make wedding dresses (as well as green) before Queen Victoria rocked the white.
curiosity#2 in the old Disney´s film, you can see the boys dressed in pink (Michael, in Peter Pan) and the girls in blue (Wendy, Alice, Cinderella, Belle... etc)
Something they’re finally historically accurate at- (satire)
exactly! disney did many things associated to the period they made that movie, the little brother of wendy was wearing pink, while she was wearing mostly blue, same with alice, cinderella, belle, aurora they had all blue dress
@@bylersmiJudy Garland in the Wizard of Oz too..
I love the confidence in men who wear pink. This is attractive to me.
Noted. Time to dig my Brony merch out of the closet...
I just prefer feminine men then masculine men.
I think men wearing pink is completely fine... I dont get why people think theyre gay. Its just a colour
My classmate wore pink at a holiday and i think it looks pretty lit
@@kay4081 Why need to separate masculinity and femininity? Why not share each other's virtues (like, I can see a "feminine" woman being assertive and willing to help a nearby citizen in need while a "masculine" man being soft and compassionate towards children).
When I was pregnant with my son, early 90s, I wasn't told his gender. For some reason at my baby shower, I got a lot of girly clothing. Like onsies and pj's. He was a big baby. He grew really fast. I had no problem using the girly clothes. Mostly at night. I used what I had. Especially if I had to change his clothes 2 or 3 times a night. They were clean and fit him. This was only up to 6 months. He grew out of things fast. He is 29. He's not traumatized. He's not gay( you can't turn someone gay. Someone actually said that to me because he wore ballerina pj's at home). I think people are too hung up on gender pacific items. I'm a girl and I played with trucks and cars. My son and friends played with kitchen sets in school. They are toys.
Trucks go vroom
Trucks go vroom
Actually cooking sets toys is for both gender and cooking is for both genders
Yes
@@AliciaGonzalez-pk3mw how is it confusing? They are just clothing. And I never took embarrassing pictures of him. Sorry that someone wearing clothing that is not traditionally for that persons gender makes you feel uncomfortable.
I always thought creating these gender colour assignments seemed really silly and needlessly restrictive.
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I love this woman’s voice 😌
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It seems that the answer to everything is capitalism and industrialization.
but what is the answer to the problem of capitalism and industrialization?
@@EmeraldEyesEsoteric Wisdom. People just need to grow enough to see that companies will twist anything to make a dollar. Of course kids lack this, so it's up to parents to nurture and convince them to not fall for the marketing racket.
@@Orinslayer the parents buy the stuff though
This Is why we need communism
The marketing people missed an oppurtunity, since gender specific colors still allows reuse for children of the same sex. Instead they should have pushed blue for first born children, green for second born, yellow for third, orange for forth etc. Then they could really have prevented widespread reuse. ;P
😂I'm imagining that wilp be so westful for people who will be following this
White was easy to wash?
Because colored clothes can fade over time unlike white if they wash over time it still remains its distinguish color
you can just dunk white clothes in bleach and not worry about it too much, whereas with colored clothing, bleach would destroy the color.
Also white clothes back then could be boiled to get them clean. It was a variation on 'boil till it's gray and the germs go away' for food lol.
Victorian cleanliness had you boiling and borax soap using till your hands desolved.
Yeah, don't believe people that say that brides didn't wear white because it couldn't be washed. There is plenty of documentation of babies and men wearing white.
Guest Informant lol
It's same as women wearing pants & shoes isn't a big deal but Men wearing skirts & heels would look funny to everyone...don't know why it have to be, the way it is (sorry for my bad english)
It doesn't have to be the way that it is. As a society, we have the power to change it.
@@marthaloven9385 yeah but not everyone is cooperative
@@ben10nyson there is reasons why men are attracted to certain things rather than others.
@@rudyerickson3830 That's actually not how it works. A person's brain isn't designed to like certain clothing right out of the womb. Children's parents tells child what is "right" to wear. Certain children want to wear the opposite but are told no by their parents. Girls just have it easier than guys because they have a wider variety of clothing to choose from while men will get criticized for wearing something "feminine". when honestly it's just clothing and people should be able to wear whatever tf they want.
@@ben10nyson That doesn't mean things can't change. For example, I can legally vote because people worked to change that, even though not everybody was cooperative.
Pink looks beautiful on males. Nothing to do with colours, be yourself boys. You guys rock. All the best for future. Be neutral to any gender and if you like pink go for it. Remove the stigma.❤️
Gotcha
Agree. Also, im a textile pattern designer and i wear the patterns i design, as shirts, backpacks, etc. First of all, men in general are so afraid of using colors and even more afraid of wearing patterns. It's so ridiculous! Im sure it's because of the European Modernist rejection of patterns and ornamentation. I hope at least the Millennials start to change it!
@@cz2301 Also, I saw a few GENZ boys wearing patterns and experimenting new colours on them. This was so revolutionary that got stuck in my mind. ❤️
I wear pink! I am a guy!
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I respect you. You are just like Elvis Presley, he loves pink.
I wear pink in Early October. Real men were pink for the cause. It is not just women who get breast cancer...MEN do too.
I think its cute when guys wear pink
I'm a girl and my favourite colour has been blue for a pretty long time now.
so? thats normal its just a color
When it comes down to it colors are neither masculine or feminine or gay it's just colors I feel that both genders should be able wear whatever color they desire and enjoy God's creation
*maximum cringe levels being exceeded
i have been enlightened by Golden
When I was small, I used to really like pink. Pink everything, walls clothes, everything. I still like pink now but I am switching to other colours.
Interesting that it seems we’ve gone backwards in regards to how we dress our kids, I feel like dressing kids in white since it’s neutral until they are old enough to express their own colour/fashion preferences is pretty cool and we should go back to that!!
It’s a color, so that argument is stupid. Everything is just culture based. It’s the same reason that diamond engagement rings became the norm: advertising.
Danielle, it's so nice to listen to you. You're intelligent and speak fluidly.
Whenever a person at my school says pink is for girls and blues for boys I show them this video and they stop saying it😋😋😎
They still say that at my school even though I kinda hate pink lol
When Meg's twins were born in "Little Women" Amy put blue on the boy twin and pink on the girl twin "in the French fashion."
All good points! There are so many great theories regarding this topic. Historically military uniforms could have been a major influence for determining the ‘manly’ colors of the time. the scarlet coats of British military (designed by Oliver Cromwell) could contribute to the initial red/pink for boys. The US choice of blue for its paramilitary was for direct contrast (debatable) but nevertheless blue for US police officers and navy has associated the color throughout the 19th century with male dominated roles. Also let’s not forget the great Amy Eisenhower and her famous pink dresses.
Actually pink was made for boys because it represented blood and fighting and being tough. As blue was for girls because it was like the ocean and calm and graceful.
I don’t believe in colors that are for boys or for girls. I have a friend who is a boy and his favorite color is pink and not dark pink, it’s really light gorgeous pink.
It’s not a big deal anymore for men or women with color luckily. I see men wearing pink and I see women wearing blue ALL the time and no body cares.
Let me break this to you, I just gifted a whole bunch of pink stuff toys to my 1 yo cousin brother and our other 2 cousins gave other colors.
Yes pink, to a boy. This rule hasn't touched us. I live in Bangladesh, south east Asia.
I had 4 boys then had a girl, she wore all the baby clothes I had from her brothers, she had pink stuff , sadly she's never been a girly girl, always a tomboy, even when she got married her dress was scarlet satin, a 50s design. Most babies in the UK wore pastel colours as well as blue or pink. I knitted in lemon pale green and a gold . We called them matinee jackets
I read blue for girls was down to how the Virgin Mary was styled in churches with her blue scarf.
No, Virgin Mary was styled in blue because for most of human history, blue has been an expensive and rare colour, only reserved to the most important subjects, such as the Virgin Mary. Blue only became common in the 1800's and especially in the 1900's if I remember correctly.
What about the use of pink triangles for homosexual men in world war ii? I was under the impression this was the largest factor responsible for the switch from pink for men to blue.
Thanks for the video! They're always phenomenal and reviewing everything at the end is incredibly helpful.
Highly unlikely. www.pinkisforboys.org/blog/did-the-nazi-triangle-inspire-pink-symbolism
Thanks for the source!
Jo Paoletti thanks for adding additional resources! This also came up in the facebook comments section.
Alternatively, one could speak of anti-communism in the first half of the 20th century up until Senator McCarthy. "Pinko" was a common epitaph for Communist-sympathizers, making pink in general appear less masculine and "American".
that’s also a good point, even if at this point why associating it to women like they could’ve made it just a color associated to homosexuality (that still is)
This kind of video is very important to people to think about how things have changed and will always change. I didn’t know babies used to wear dresses and the same hair cut until a certain age, because there was no necessity in make their gender noticeable. I liked the content of the video and how the woman explained it properly but clearly. Congratulations 👏🏼
I've just had a glimpse of how our society is confusing and always creates a new method to complicate anything. I've never thought of pink being used for the boys. It kind of blew my mind.
The dresses bit, too. There are baby pictures of Theodore Roosevelt in dresses and considering his interests later in life it's the funniest juxtaposition imaginable.
I always tought that baby blue is very suitable for little girls. Also I heard that yin-yang symbol was originally red-blue, and red was the masculine, and blue was the feminine side, like fire and water.
I have gotten a plenty of blue clothes as handmedowns for my daughter, she is very pretty in them.
real 😭 blue is so good for girls like it has more association with us than the pink
I remember recalling on a piece of information to the popularity of pink for girls. I think its the queen of England would wear pink because its her favorite color. In turn, the popularity of pink was associated with girls? or Blue was associated with the Virgin Mary, and so definitely a preferred color for girls. Red was associated with war and conquest, so a very manly color. Pink was a gentler version, more appropriate for boys.
Yes, I know this explanation too from long ago
Your voice is perfect for narration. Great content, good editing, great narration. Thank you for creating this informative video!
i love how your voice sounds, you made the video feel short and even more interesting.
Imagine being pregnant, and having an intersex kid. Then asking the doctor "Is it a boy or a girl?" and the doctor just goes "Yes. Your baby is yes."
Nah ur baby is all so choose Liliac bc it’s a mix of pink and blue
You know my mom worked for Macy's in Chicago it was blue for girls and green for boys and this was around1934 1935 or so
I remember my all time favorite outfit when i was 3 was a blue matching set of tank tops and shorts with white butterflies on it. I absolutely loved that outfit and i cant say why 😂
Pink as a dye was only introduced into European culture in the 18th century. Its rarity and novelty meant that it was initially kept only for the wealthy and high ranking. Thus, it was initially also associated with maleness, since that time in Europe was very patriarchal. When it became more common and eventually plebian, the association with masculinity waned. Then we pick up with the analysis in this video.
I prefer gender neutral clothes for kids anyway. So much easier to pass hand-me-downs between cousins and siblings. So much easier to save money and time on streamlining the wardrobe.
There will always be gendered gifts for children coming from family and friends, so I like to stick to the basics. Whites, greys, and tans for onesies and undergarments or pajamas. Denim overalls. Etc. I don't encourage my daughters to dress like a boy or go crazy with colors and etc. I get them girl or gender neutral stuff and then follow their interest from there.
Every colour is for every body 🙂
Very interesting and educational. Really awesome!!!
I hated that clothes and toys were categorized as “boys” and “girls” as a kid. I’m a girl but always wanted “boys” stuff and my parents didn’t let me and made me feel I’m weird for liking “boys” stuff. I wish these none sense shits will disappear one day.
Im a girl and I like the color pink but I've never understood why some people think girls have to like pink and boys have to like blue. One of my little sisters likes blue and there's no problem with with that. My baby sister likes green.
Why do we do this😹 the human race is weird af. Just wear what you want. Any clothes will do😹
Wear what you want but understand that other people will always still have their own opinions. Some of them seem to be unable to accept any opinion but their own.
What is with these people, she answered the questions twice. You just want to complain about something.
I had a pastel blue bedspread with white rosebuds on it and lace around the edge for my daughter’s crib. My sister didn’t like that at all! I also passed my son’s clothing down to my daughter for the first few years. My daughter did have plenty of “girl” clothing too.
Marketing pushes color as well as toys. Division of gender is still pushed "Boys toy aisle, girls toy aisle" This is still said by salespeople! Walk down the girls toy aisle and you will see predominantely pink and purple. This push causes little girls to believe those are their favorite colors...how limiting! 45+ years ago when I was raising my girls, I refused to limit what they played with and what they wore. Their clothes were all colors and I let them pick. Some days they might have on a blue shirt, red overalls, pink socks, green shoes! Made me smile, made their grandma wonder about me!
Blue will always be my fav color it’s such a pretty color unless it’s dark blue i am a girl
I seriously think pink looks really good on men. Well, also depends on the type of clothing. XD
Many people: pink or red is for girls and blue is for boys
My parents painting my room purple when I was born, a mix of pink/red and blue: lol what?
Baby girls in light blue greases with a hair ribbon is just the cutest
YES❤
You're amazing!
Agree. She is a really good presenter. They way she talks makes it very engaging.
That's so kind!! Thank you both for watching!!
Agreed, super personable and vivacious, made this video fun to watch!
Stupid question: Is this the reason why Dorothy Gale (from The Wizard of Oz) always wore blue?
Y'know, that's a good question.
Movie was made in 1932 so I would say yes..
It truly depends on the culture/marketing. I know for a fact that in India lots of men still wear pink and even flurescent pink boldly!
I planned a pastel green for my daughter's nursery. I did not want a traditional pink nursery, but rather a calming feel. I ended up falling in love with lavender for her walls, but all her accessories were pastel green. Although all baby elements are gone, at 12 years old my daughter's room still has lavender walls and pastel green accessories by her choice. With clothing, my daughter had plenty of pink in her closet, but I tended to dress her in anything blue because blue clothing brought out her gorgeous blue eyes. Many a stranger thought she was a boy when she was a baby.
Ahh, that seems adorable! You are probably a fantastic parent.
@@rain-wk5qy thank you!!
You can usually the sex of a child in 19th Century photos by the side their hair is parted on: middle part for girls and a side part for boys
That is a common misconception. It works for some years, and when the child’s hair is long enough to part. But I wouldn’t rely on it.
Yes Jo obviously it's not 100% reliable. Which is why bunny girl said "USUALLY".
It's not enough to be relied on as a single factor. I don't know Bunny Girl, so I don't know her training. But the other dress historians I know use a variety of clues, and often still can't tell the boys from the girls in 19th century images.
I know Bunny Girl very well, and i can tell you she knows what she's talking about, as her phd in "gender recognition of 19th century photos based on hair parting, specializing in RUclips comments" would prove,.
Bunny Girl, can you post a citation to your dissertation? I’d love to read it!
In Europe I was told that red was regarded as a male color, because it is a royal color. And pink is the little red for boys. Blue was the color of the Virgin Mary in religious paintings. You can see it in old church windows, too. So blue was regarded as a female color and light blue suitable for girls. In Germany this changed when the Prussian Navi needed more soldiers. The blue white outfit of the Navi became very popular for young men and boys. So the attribution of colors to the genders changed.
My elementary school banning dresses and skirts: 😳
Just wear green.
I remmember liking pink as a little kid (as in 5-8yrs) because all the other girls used to wear pink, so the more pink clothes I had the "pinkier" it was, the "better" it made me. When I started hating on society I started hating pink too and decided to wear only black instead... Ten years later I'm slowly getting over my hatered for the second one, color is just a color really. I holds no meaning aside from the one humans attach to it.
Am a girl and i love blue 💙 colour!! It's my fav 😍 colour 😉😝
Wow this was actually really interesting personally I don’t believe in gender colours assignments
I'm Omni. I have pink and blue in my flag
You go!
@@Aoi-The-Duck Thanks, but you don't have to use words like they or them.
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Blue was also a trend in the 90s:
Some women wore denim jackets and skirts on stage
Thank you, this video is SO important. In Brazil we now have an extreme-right woman leading the Ministry of Human Rights, and in her first public speech she had crowds of people chanting "meninos vestem azul, meninas vestem rosa", which means "boys wear blue, girls wear pink". I think it would be great if people could realize this was a random assignment, and that a true back to basics approach would see all babies in white dresses, with zero impact on their gender identities. Children are children.
I haft å Pink dress shirt and i want to paint my bedroom wood Salmon pink, our house iz 99yrs Old. My daughter faverorite colour iz blue. Although every One else thinks it's to be pink lol I would like to see tha colour's be for either I also think tha clothes should be for either in stead of gender specific
steve154life Can you spell?
Ja. I do nat always type in english. My keyboard automatic correct into outher launguages
steve154life just dont use automatic correct thingy on your keyboard
Interesting but it's hard to take this serious when she's wrong about the fact that gender non-specific clothing made a resurgence in the '70s or that pink and blue were not cemented until the '80s. If any boy were to wear pink in the '70s he would have been laughed out of the school, and reveal parties did not really happen in the '80s but the parents would let the sex be known before the shower if they knew.
Here here! I like this channel but unfortunately some of the things she's discussing or simply not true or hasn't put enough Research into.
In all honesty and I just don't know why gender reveal parties make me want to puke. LOL . I watched my nieces and nephews come into the world with no gender reveal parties. It was a breath of fresh air and just lovely. If my sister was having a girl we would buy little pink things. if she was having a boy weed by little blue things. If we didn't know we would buy yellow or white. Isn't it funny how we seem to all grow up and move on with life without all this nonsensical nonsense. I honestly do not know what this world is coming to.
I find the sensibilities to this subject to be very strange. I've had a tradition for a number of years now where if I find out someone is having a baby I make them an afghan. I ask them what color they want and, u.Universally they say, I need to know the gender of the baby first. I'm like, why? My afghan as a baby was blue, my sister's was green. This creates a practical issue because it takes more time to crochet than people realize, especially since I work full time. But since they rarely pick pink or blue this becomes even more confusing. The one I'm working on now is navy, green, and orange. Gender that.
Men also wore heels...nobles though to make them appear taller as to be "above" others.
In Indira Radic's "Moj Zivote" music video there are two children(a boy and girl) both wearing white
Thanks for breaking this down, I recall a college mate of mine mentioned this to me. Glad to see a video about it.
host is very confident and accent is very clear... like her smiling way of delivering...
From what I understand, during WWII the Nazis used and upside-down pink triangle to label gay men in concentration camps and when that got back to the States, pink started becoming associated with gay men and therefor femininity. After that pink started becoming more feminine because men wouldn’t want to be caught dead wearing pink because of that association with gay men. It evolved just like you said with the white t-shirt, less and less men wore pink and eventually pink just kinda stuck to femininity in the market. That’s my understanding at least, thoughts?
May someone explain who is the person who got permanently scarred for being told that pink is the color girls like most and that blue is the favorite color for boys and gave these issue such an importance? Yes, my parents did give me several pieces of clothing that were blue when I was young; my sister did have pink dresses and shoes but where is the damage? Are people trying to fix what was never broken?
I do not even like pink and I am a girl! I love blue though. Such a natural, beautiful color blue is. The color of the sky, the ocean...
I usually dislike boring for girls clothes and tend to want to shop in the boys section...
Same with video games. Stuff meant for girls is ridiculously boring but stuff meant for boys is actually fun!
Boys toys speak of adventure, or sports. Girl toys are stuff like dolls, dollhouses, barbies, babies, there is no imagination, just planning for adult life. Because you will definitely have a husband and a baby if you want them, whereas men who aren't alpha or beta providers spend our lives alone living in our heads.
I hate dolls and makeup and things girls are supposed to like.Guess I am a tomboy then. I still prefer the boy section, since it has all those robots and videogames and stuff.
@@LizumaAre you a tomboy?
I'm from South Africa and red is not for mourning ma'am. We mainly wear black and in some rare cases a very dark shade of navy blue. In all my 31 years in this country I have never seen red as the color associated with mourning... Perhaps it was before my time but I doubt it
Also kings wore red and therefore princes wore pink, while Maria was always depicted with a blue dress. But somewhere down the line it changed.
To also put it into perspective my grandmas were slowly adjusting to pants in the past 20 years... just to put it into perspective.
I think that people should be able to wear what colours and things they want, no matter what their assigned gender is. Besides, gender is a spectrum.
I just love your channel! You deliver information on unique subjects in such an interesting way. :D
in kindergarten, nobody would be my friend because my favourite colour was red
I saw a different video a while back that discussed the marketing of pink as feminine to adult women in like the 1950's. I'm sure this was a related factor for babies.
Pink is hella cute on guys, I like it when a guy isn't scared of femininity because he's too secure to give a shit about what people will say.
Cemre and Gulcin(both girls) wear blue and pink color on stage
She’s brilliant and take enormous amounts of historical material and distills it so we can get a rapid but in ways quite deep view of how things come to be the way they are- so helpful when there are people with no historical knowledge screaming about the rules, the laws, others must follow when these “laws” are created by corporations, political and economic systems of unequal power, religions aligned with power sectors of society, etc.
In other words, we get hit in the head by man-created “laws” that are presented as absolutes.
Knowledge IS Power, and this woman, I think Danielle…, spreads knowledge/power to all ready to receive it. Thank you!!!
✨Colour has NO gender✨
I’m a girl I love blue so much more then pink.
2:04 i fucking screamed i kid you not, FDR looked so adorable as a kid this is unbelievable hahahha
When you're a toaster and instead of pink and blue, you wear plaid...
4:22 well that would be confusing for me I have blond hair brown eyes
My grandmother - who is now 96 - told me blue used to be for girls because it's the Virgin Mary's colour and she is believed to preside over baby girls' childhoods in Christianity. I don't know how true this is though.
The shift in the 80s was most certainly influenced by the societal shift towards conservatism as well as consumerism.
In the 18th century, and probably before, boys wore 'dresses' for ease of changing diapers, as you mentioned. This continued until the boy was 'breeched' (as in breeches), meaning that he was potty-trained and could now wear pants without risking getting them soiled.
I wore pink flowered Bermuda shorts when I was a child back in the 1980s. My dad bought them for me. 😁
Growing up in India in the 90s, I never came across this kind of "colour segregation". It was a bit of a surprise when I first encountered this in Europe.
Now off course, the consumerism and it's clever manipulative way have started doing it's job in India too.
One fun fact:
In West, black is the colour of grief and is worn at funerals, in India, it is white!
Traditionally, black is considered unlucky and is usually avoided. It is an absolute No No at weddings as opposed to western weddings where almost all men adorn black.
In Russia "Blue" is a synonym for "gay". There's an interview where Putin calls Europe "blue".
Subject colors: Blue and Pink
Colors in video: Turquoise and Fuchsia
Very interesting, thank you so much for this 😊