Pink is also a manly color in Japan as it's the color of sakura, and the sakura blossom has many connections to various groups and organizations, including samurai.
Pink is also a manly color in Japan as it's the color of sakura, and the sakura blossom has many con
Media forcing people to believe pink = girl and blue = boy Before the 1930s(?), pink was considered a boy's color and blue a girl's color. It's not them automatically assuming pink should be a girl's color. It's the media and big businesses engraining it into your mind from a young age right down to children's toys. Then again, females prefer redder colors on average and males prefer bluer colors on average. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820120...
Media forcing people to believe pink = girl and blue = boy Before the 1930s(?), pink was considered
i cant remember the source of it and cant seem to find anything conclusive about it but i have read somewhere that the reason it flipped to girl=pink boy=blue is cause of WW2 where "the gays" were marked with pink triangles and that was a big enough cultural impact that it shifted the perception and thus the marketing
i cant remember the source of it and cant seem to find anything conclusive about it but i have read
Pink and blue started being attributed to gender before even World War I. 1890s. So I don't think that claim holds much historical basis. It had always been a push from manufacturers to color code to make more money off of the consumers. It would force consumers to buy two sets of children's dresses to match the colors of their children instead of one unisex dress that could be easily passed down. Manufacturers manipulated the American peoples' views on what colors to associate with. Not the people thinking 'homophobia'. To blame it on homophobia might be an unintentional misattribution at best, malicious in order to try to smear cultural norms at worst. I could always be wrong. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/health/colorscope-pink-b...
Pink and blue started being attributed to gender before even World War I. 1890s. So I don't think th
