Psychotomy

From a NYT article (What’s Wrong with Cinderella?)

Easier, that is, unless you want to buy your daughter something that isn’t pink. Girls’ obsession with that color may seem like something they’re born with, like the ability to breathe or talk on the phone for hours on end. But according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, it ain’t so. When colors were first introduced to the nursery in the early part of the 20th century, pink was considered the more masculine hue, a pastel version of red. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, was thought to be dainty. Why or when that switched is not clear, but as late as the 1930s a significant percentage of adults in one national survey held to that split. Perhaps that’s why so many early Disney heroines — Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Wendy, Alice-in-Wonderland — are swathed in varying shades of azure. (Purple, incidentally, may be the next color to swap teams: once the realm of kings and N.F.L. players, it is fast becoming the bolder girl’s version of pink.)

see, that’s what i’m talking about.  pink is a girls color because they say so.  but it isn’t.  ok, i didn’t know it used to be a boy’s color, but jeez there’s a lotta pink.  and blue?  bah.  whateva!  hell, i’m colorblind, i got all kindsa free excuses when i buy things “inappropriately colored” but seriously.  is wearing a blue dress gonna make the girl into a bride of satan?  pink onesies are gonna turn my hulking brute of a linebacker into a gay homosexual?  pfft.  (OK, so i’m more likely to do the whole “not under my roof!” thing if he wants to play american football than if he wants to date guys, that’s not my point here)

and later in the article it talks about princess peach (there was some bootcamp princess peach game) … and it made me wonder …

WTF is she “princess peach”?  her dress is pink!  there’s nothing PEACH !  at all!!!  I just don’t get that.  i mean, come on, would it be THAT hard to make it a peach dress?  (or is this the part where everyone tells me she DOES wear a peach dress?)

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