Why Is the Color Pink Thought To Be Girly?
ピンクと聞くと、おそらくバービーのようなピンクのおもちゃを持ったピンクのドレスを着た小さな女の子や、かわいいドレスを着たディズニープリンセスのイメージを思い浮かべるでしょう。この色は圧倒的に柔らかさと女性らしさを連想させます。しかし、これは最近の出来事です。(English) When you think of pink, you probably conjure up images of little girls in pink dresses, with pink toys like Barbie or a Disney princess in a pretty dress. The colour is overwhelmingly associated with softness and femininity. But this is a recent development.
Why Is the Color Pink Thought To Be Girly?
The trailer for the Barbie movie is full of the color pink. Barbie's house, car, clothes, and even the sand on the beach are all pink. Pink is now thought to be a girly color, but it has not always been.
In 1890, a Ladies Home Journal article said that blue was for girls and pink was for boys. In 1927, Time magazine surveyed large department stores across North America. Some stores said pink was for boys, and some said blue was for boys.
Over time, pink became a girly color. Pink items marketed toward women and girls often cost more. This is called the "pink tax". Gender stereotyping also became more common.
The public asked stores, like Target, to stop arranging toys by gender. Customers did not want girls to play with dolls and kitchen toys while boys played with chemistry sets. Target does not label toys by gender anymore.
Social scientists say linking pink to girls and blue to boys is a social construction. The reason many girls like pink is not because of biology.
If things had gone differently, the Barbie movie could have been about a doll in blue clothes, in a blue house, with a blue car.
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What is now thought to be a girly colour?
Answer
Pink is now thought to be a girly colour.
Reason
(1st Paragraph) Pink is now thought to be a girly colour, but it has not always been.
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What did the public ask stores like Target to do?
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The public asked stores, like Target, to stop arranging toys by gender.
Reason
(4th Paragraph) The public asked stores, like Target, to stop arranging toys by gender.
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What do social scientists call linking pink to girls and blue to boys?
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They say linking pink to girls and blue to boys is a social construction.
Reason
(5th Paragraph) Social scientists say linking pink to girls and blue to boys is a social construction.
//Discussions//
Q1
Do you want to see the Barbie movie? Why or why not?
-> I don't want to see it.
However, I would like to see "Oppenheimer", which is being screened simultaneously.
Barbie dolls were also popular in Japan.
However, Japanese Licca-chan dolls are overwhelmingly popular, and I had one.
Compared to Barbie, Licca has dark brown hair, is not very tall, has big, cute eyes, and looks like us, so I felt a sense of familiarity with her.
Q2
Do you prefer the colour pink or blue? Please explain.
-> Of course, I also liked pink as a child.
However, I liked blue more when I was about ten years old.
I thought pink was childish at that time.
Since then, I have liked the blue of the sky, the colour of the sea, the royal blue, and the different shades of blue.
Q3
Do you think the "pink tax" is a good thing? Please discuss.
-> I don't think it's a good thing.
In the first place, from an adult's point of view, it was decided that pink was a girl's colour.
The girl was subconsciously modelled as a typical stay-at-home mom, dressed in pink, playing house in the kitchen, taking care of two babies, and waiting for her husband to come home.
Q4
Do you think girls and boys should play with the same toys? Please share your thoughts.
-> No, I don't think so.
Especially in childhood, girls and boys seem interested in different things.
My older brother was interested in animals, bugs, space and trains.
I was interested in stuffed animals, sewing, piano and ballet.
However, my brother and I were interested in computers and astronomical telescopes in space, and aquariums and animal zoos were just as enjoyable.
Q5
Should stores arrange children's toys by gender? Please support your answer.
-> No, I don't think so.
Parents should not prejudice and choose toys by gender.
As a human being, I think it's essential to believe in possibilities so that you can expand your interests.
Q6
Do you think pink will be linked to boys again in the future? Why or why not?
-> Yes, it is very likely.
Recently in Japan, even girls can choose from various colours, such as pink, blue, purple, and green, not only red, as in the old days, when elementary school students went to school, the bag was called Randoseru.
Spending your daily life surrounded by your favourite colours is very important.
Because it represents a person's personality and way of thinking.
Why Is the Color Pink Thought To Be Girly?
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The complicated gender history of pink
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/12/health/colorscope-pink-boy-girl-gender/index.html
The complicated gender history of pink
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When you think of pink, you probably conjure up images of little girls in pink dresses, with pink toys like Barbie or a Disney princess in a pretty dress.
The colour is overwhelmingly associated with softness and femininity.
But this is a recent development.
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"If you go back to the 18th century, little boys and girls of the upper class wore pink and blue and other colours uniformly," says Valerie Steele, director of the museum at FIT, the Fashion Institute of Technology, in New York.
"Pink was considered a masculine colour. In old catalogues and books, pink was the colour for little boys," says Leatrice Eiseman, a colour expert and executive director of the Pantone Color Institute.
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"It was related to the parent colour of red, which was fiery and passionate and more active, more aggressive. Even if you reduce the hue, it was a colour associated with boys," says Eiseman.
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An article titled "Pink or Blue", published in 1918 in the journal The Infants' Department, said the generally accepted rule was pink for boys and blue for girls. "The reason is that pink, a decided and stronger colour, is more suitable for the boy," it said.
So when did the change happen?
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Lack of consensus
According to Steele, the gendering of pink in America is complicated.
"In America in the 1890s and early 20th century, manufacturers tried to sell more children's and infants' clothing by colour-coding," she said. Some manufacturers branded pink for boys and blue for girls, and vice versa.
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In 1927, there was a lot of regional variation in how stores labelled colour, Steele said. Stores like Best & Co. in Manhattan and Marshall Field's in Chicago branded pink as a boy's colour. Others, such as Macy's in Manhattan and Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, identified pink as a girl's colour.
"There was no unanimity at all," says Steele. "By the 1920s, people were starting to think that there was a difference between pink and blue for boys and girls because of what the manufacturers were trying to do."
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Steele believes that acquiring two 18th-century paintings by American millionaire Henry Huntington began to turn the tide in favour of pink as a girl's colour. "The Blue Boy" depicted a boy dressed in blue, and "Pinkie" showed a girl dressed in pink.
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Huntington's purchase was widely publicised in the American press, says Steele. People began to think that for centuries, blue had been for boys and pink for girls. But that wasn't true, she said.
"If you look back, in the 18th century, little boys wore blue and pink, and grown men wore blue and pink, and ladies and little girls wore blue and pink," Steele said.
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Making a statement
Today, a boy or man can't wear pink without making a statement, said Jo Paoletti, academic and author of "Pink and Blue: Telling the Girls From the Boys in America".
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Paoletti said that if a male friend wore a pink tie or shirt, she would point it out. "If it were just a colour, you wouldn't have to do that. You use a pink tie to show that 'I'm a feminist' or 'Gender roles do not bind me'. "
Eiseman agrees that there has been a steady increase in the use of pink by men. "But it takes a man to look at it and say, 'I'm not threatened by wearing pink' or 'I don't think other people will think I'm too effeminate if I wear pink,'" she said.
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However, researchers at Pantone have found that the colour pink is being embraced by men more than ever before, Eiseman said. Shirt manufacturers such as Pink in London and Ralph Lauren's pink polo shirts have helped make the colour popular with men.
Eiseman said that for some men, the preference for pink comes naturally. But things are changing.
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"I think, in general, the younger generation just doesn't have some of the prejudices about certain colours that maybe their fathers and grandfathers had, who were brought up with the idea that pink was only for little girls or that a boy should never wear pink," she said.
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Paoletti believes we haven't yet reached the point where pink is just a colour, but she hopes this can change. She noted that in the late 1800s, if a young woman wore black, people would assume that someone had died and that she was mourning.
"Now we see young women wearing black all the time, and nobody asks them who died. It's just a colour," she says.
Paoletti is hopeful that pink will eventually be just a colour, but it won't happen until men stop justifying or defending wearing it.
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How did pink become a girly colour?
https://www.vox.com/2015/4/14/8405889/pink-color-gender
How did pink become a girly colour?
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"For most of history, pink was just another colour. It was worn by men and women alike," says Jennifer Wright in a recent article on the history of the colour published by our sister site Racked. The history of pink is well-documented, with many exciting twists and turns.
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In 1927, Time magazine surveyed ten major department stores across the country. The publication wanted to know how each store associated the colours pink and blue with boys and girls - and the answers were surprisingly mixed.
Until then, most children wore gender-neutral clothes, usually white, because it was easy to bleach and keep clean. It wasn't until the 1950s that pink became a 'girly' colour.
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Many historians point to Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration as a pivotal moment in the history of pink.
The new First Lady, Mamie Eisenhower, arrived at the inaugural ball in a stunning pink gown with 2,000 rhinestones.
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Pink was Mrs Eisenhower's favourite colour, and newspapers and fashion designers nationwide quickly caught on to her colourful style and charming domesticity.
It was a welcome respite from the last decade of war when women typically wore much simpler styles and worked hard in factories.
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As you'll see in the video above, the colour pink has evolved from being a shade traditionally associated with women.
Many women since Mrs Eisenhower have used pink more calculatedly, including current presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.
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Why Barbie Deserves The Hype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhyOHUjZIUk