Comment on Why is blue and pink traditionally associated with men and women?

yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  but why pink and blue? Are they cheaper to manufacture and mass produce or something?

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  • yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you read the wiki article department stores wanted to collaborate on colors. Most stores were doing all colors for babies, but it’s easier to mass produce one color per gender. There was a time where different stores were doing boys pink (because red is masculine, so pink is baby red) and girls in a feminine light blue. Eventually they settled on girl pink and boy blue. It was utterly arbitrary. Yellow was used for gender neutral.

    It’s only recently with online shopping that we are getting back to being able to buy baby clothes in any color once again.

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    • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      ah they all collaborated so that it was consistent. That makes sense, but it kind of makes you wonder what other arbitrary things were decided by the circle of department stores

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  • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean, red and blue are 2 of the 3 primary colors in pigments, so that probably has something to do with it. Why yellow missed out, I have no idea.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yellow sucks.

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      • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s associated with urine, and a baby in yellow just looks like a baby that’s pissed itself.

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