{"id":2366,"date":"2008-09-03T02:23:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T07:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2010-11-24T00:43:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:43:25","slug":"pink-and-femininity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/03\/pink-and-femininity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink and Femininity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/multicultclassics.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/5886-fruit-of-latinas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Multicult Classics<\/a> posted these two Spanish-language Fruit of the Loom ads.\u00a0 They are an extra nice example of the way that color is used to communicate gender:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/hisp_fotl_2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2368    aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/hisp_fotl_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/hisp_fotl.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2367  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/hisp_fotl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text: &#8220;Your world, now much more feminine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/28\/extreme-radical-awesome-pictures-of-kids-n-their-um-stuff\/\" target=\"_self\">this post<\/a> of kids with their stuff, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/24\/what-kids-learn-at-toys-r-us\/\" target=\"_self\">these pictures<\/a> of the Toys &#8216;R Us aisles,\u00a0these <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/17\/conventional-and-non-conventional-gender-symbolism-in-breast-cancer-psas\/\" target=\"_self\">breast cancer PSAs<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/09\/29\/marketing-guns-to-women\/\" target=\"_self\">these guns marketed to women<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obvious to us, today, that pink is for girls.\u00a0 But it wasn&#8217;t until about the 1950s that our current gendered color scheme became widely accepted.\u00a0 Before that, the colors were reversed.\u00a0 In this excerpt for a vintage advice column (found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2007\/aug\/25\/genderissues\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), we learn that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl.\u00a0 The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy; while blue, which is more delicate and dainty is prettier for the girl.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/picture1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2369                   aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multicult Classics posted these two Spanish-language Fruit of the Loom ads.\u00a0 They are an extra nice example of the way that color is used to communicate gender: Text: &#8220;Your world, now much more feminine.&#8221; See also this post of kids with their stuff, these pictures of the Toys &#8216;R Us aisles,\u00a0these breast cancer PSAs, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[373,55,2096,2102,253],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-color","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-history","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29708,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/29708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}