Monday, May 25, 2009

Pink Primes!!






Obviously seen are the roses!!!!!!! Now so many pinks around here.....I can't bear them!!!

Pink as considered by many is the color of femininity. But at one point pink was considered more of a boy's color, (as a watered-down red, which is a fierce color) and blue was more for girls. The associate of pink with bold, dramatic red clearly affected its use for boys.

It would also seem that Nazi Germany had something to do with the association of pink with femininity:
"Catholic traditions in Germany and neighboring countries reverse the current color coding, because of the strong association of blue with the Virgin Mary...the NAZIs in their concentration camps use a pink triangle to identify homosexuals. (The yellow star of David is the best known symbol, used of course to identify Jews. The German system was quite complicated, using various symbols an colors to identify criminals, political prisinors, and a whole range of other groups). The NAZI's choice of pink suggests that it by the 1930s was a color that in Germany had become associate with girls." - "Gender Specific Colors"

And what more!, there have been 'chicks with guns' in US, guns with pink theme and with the slogan: “Shoot like a girl if you can!”  last year which had been unexpectionally a hit!!!


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