How did pink become a girly color?

Jennifer Wright explains how the color pink became associated with girls.
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[@MzFoRi3]

So basically it was just a trend, that turned into a gender role.

[@lulushah.]

:(

[@ynnkh]

Right 🙄

[@uwusussywindex]

Ikr, it's sad

[@0777coco]

That's the modern society for y'all.

[@ellas8129]

MzFoRi3 I'm pretty sure that's how most Trends work, if they get really popular for a long time. They become societal norms

[@bradhp11]

So basically women defying gender roles in the 50's just created another gender role? GENDERCEPTION.

[@valenzine9423]

Bradhp11 well you could say it like that but its pretty clear o me that the patriarchy took something woman used to defy gender role and turned it into a gender role.

[@Cainmak]

Everything that appears to defy gender roles will eventually turn into a gender role if became too accustomed to. That's why we should defy gender roles more often.

[@nnmartin94]

that's not true - mamie wasn't defying gender roles with pink - she identified with cooking for her husband and dressing pretty.

[@jasonenosart]

More like how the tastes of the "elite" became a stereotype.

[@yaminahmed9680]

mazdaplz I feel like punching you in the face so hard...

[@ozzylad1236]

It’s weird that people are generally ok with any colour on women but people think it’s strange when men wear pink/purple

[@josael28tnz]

I know, right?

[@aienne80yearsago46]

If a guy likes the color, he should go out in a pink shirt and prance around wearing it and no one should judge him

[@QuestionThingsUseLogic]

@Ploke Newo78 it's said exactly the same, but in Australia we spell many words differently to the US. Mrs Kerry

[@QuestionThingsUseLogic]

@Ploke Newo78 totally :-)

[@Tinymoezzy]

Pink and red still get attention or the occasional comment

[@AloysWalterStefan]

Pink is the color of raw flesh. Pink is metal af.

[@0777coco]

Trve ass colovr.

[@bradmckay7750]

Two in the pink?

[@benbisogno5578]

In George RR Martin's "A Game of Thrones", the vicious house called the Boltons has a banner of a flayed man on a pink field.

[@zenaidaviodor1807]

Ben Bisogno I didn’t notice that.

[@fbyi2940]

What about blue 😂😂... Blue waffles

[@julianapanepento4080]

Cinderella wore a blue dress and came out in 1950, princess Aurora from sleeping beauty wears a pink dress and came out in 1959. I don't think this is a coincidence.

[@p_272]

Aurora's is both pink and blue =)

[@lenawagenfuehr53]

@@p_272 thank you! I remember the fairies fighting over if her dress should be blue or pink!

[@TiffanyRay]

Cinderellas dress has more of a silvery white tone to it but I can understand why you think it might be blue in certain lightings that are dark and very contrasted her dress appears as a sky blue color when its in lighter settings it looks more white and sparkly

[@mychannel-rt2gn]

Pink GhostFace what do you mean by “in certain lightings”? it’s a 2D animation from the 50’s not a live action, there were no studio lights that made the dress look one way or another. An artist used blue and white colouring to make a light blue dress; what lighting the dress is under doesn’t matter.

[@motionista]

@@mychannel-rt2gn they probably mean that the artists adjusted the colour depending on their knowledge of light. In darker, less lighted settings, the artists painted the dress darker to represent shade and thus the dress would look blue, but in the well lighted settings, such as the ball, it was painted silver and sparkly which was it's real colour.

[@BuzzZu]

I feel like Vox is like a higher quality and more trustworthy version of parts of buzzfeed

[@Rudenbehr]

Buzz Zu When was buzzfeed ever a reliable company?

[@theothewise]

Buzz Zu For better or worse

[@MichaelGrey11]

Less cringy too

[@mk-ri6nl]

Buzz Zu same I just discovered it and now I'm obsessed

[@mickibabe5495]

they talk about real topics too

[@georgialamb370]

Did anyone else go through a phase in elementary/middle school where they were all like "ew I hate pink its too girly" until they realized there was literally nothing wrong with like it and now love the color?

[@montymole2]

yes and no, i only went to 2nd grade and didn't wear pink myself but also i didn't care if someone else was wearing it, like i wouldn't make fun of them or anything lol

[@Gods_finest122]

nah its the opposite for me but i still like the color pink

[@BtwAlice]

I don’t know why there’s a damn stereotype that girls who like pink are fragile, dreamy, childish, girly, vain, not independent, bla bla bla. I mean, where is that come from? Whenever i say i love pink, people treat me like a silly little kid and immediately underestimate me.

[@StudyingIsFun]

IKR (BTW I'm a boy)

[@sureshbagul6007]

u have all rights to love any color you want!

[@stitches768]

I don't like pink on me, but that doesn't mean other people can't wear it

[@SlayerofFiction]

Try being a Kickboxer who also was in Orchestra, sigh.

[@aericabison23]

Probably because seeing pink induces a sort of “aw” reaction in people? Like it makes them want to baby you and stuff, I guess. That’s what I think.

[@jordanpink1306]

My last name is Pink and when I was a kid I used to want to change it to Blue lol

[@mohammadzaidi8287]

lol

[@seabas1s]

+Jordan Pink Change it to Pinkman, Breaking Bad

[@lain1129]

+Jordan Pink Is that Rarararagi in your profile pic?

[@cimmik]

So you are not a kid anymore i guess. Then you must be Old Pink. Are you the one who the secret message told me to send my answer to?

[@cagedtigersteve]

Pink is my new obsession. Pink it's not even a question.

[@janethart7842]

My son loves pink. I don't believe its just a girl's color.

[@silveriii8456]

did u just assume ur sons gender

[@janethart7842]

Silver III what are you talking about?

[@essennagerry]

It's a running gag, don't worry. :D

[@silveriii8456]

Janet Hart yeah its just a runnig gag

[@lootziedoodle]

+Danielthephan did you just misspell "misspell" T R R I G E R E D

[@mickibabe5495]

Pink is for girls Blue is for boys Pink is for boys Blue is for girls..... It's just a colour, depending on each person's own taste.

[@zephyr2851]

what about every other color? are they for nb people? (ekoj)

[@bernardgonzalez5529]

I feel like blue is a color for everyone

[@GiGitteru]

Bernard Gonzalez EVERY colour is for everyone.

[@flo_wer]

im a girl and pink is my favorite color. i prefer light shades of pink though. i dont consider myself as girly, but i just see pink as a really pretty color.

[@magiveem]

Liking pink is the last remaining ounce of my femininity

[@ZiaRDS]

I'm sure she was a lovely woman, but she looks like Dolores Umbridge. Did anyone else see that?

[@nicolelourdes6269]

I did. I was like fuck. We're all going to use the Black Quill.

[@dooplon5083]

Mamie?

[@ayesha6206]

omg yes

[@curtiswfranks]

Oh, yes.

[@hexx2211]

Haha, yeah, she does

[@tromboner2012]

this video should be shown to everyone everywhere. COLOR HAS NO GENDER!! it's just an interest

[@b.l.o.o.d.m.o.s.e.s.]

Exactly

[@lvpn1264]

+tromboner2012 is pickle a gender?

[@fluffyllama1505]

sometimes

[@tromboner2012]

Zuzmaw it's usually on tuesdays

[@michaelmilburn911]

+tromboner2012 I feel like everyone is brought up being told what colour fits what gender from an early age. I do love to wear a nice pink tie though!

[@cynmk2650]

The problem with pink arises by the segregated marketing of children's toys. Honestly I don't think we would hate it this much if every article for young girls wasn't glittery pink and had "little princess" written all over it...

[@kathytran992]

There's always that pink phase you go through when you're little, I swear. I remember that I used to hate pink with a passion, but then as I got older I grew out of it. I started realizing, "Hey, pink isn't a bad color." Lmao I have quite a few pink clothing in my room now. The only color I still dislike is hot pink. Too "bright" It's like if it was screaming at your face.

[@svill1010]

I'm a straight guy and I love the color pink

[@aelliixx]

I like the fact that you had to clarify that you're straight...

[@ashleyshim2078]

cool

[@MrRjhyt]

Just wear it and call it 'Salmon'.

[@starplatinumoraoraora]

Because there is a direct relationship between this colour and dicks ? Society makes people dumb

[@Mp9724]

Salmon cargo shorts lel

[@FromCanadaMarco98]

"the general who won WW2" That's just a stupid sentence.,

[@couch_philosoph3325]

i thought the same xD its basically a video about a historical topic, yet they got this (rather important) fact wrong lol

[@hamajangz]

+Marcus He was the general of the allied forces in WW2 so they got it right.

[@FromCanadaMarco98]

hamajangz ...

[@phoenixlegionaire3868]

+hamajangz surely by that logic it should be George Marshall (Eisenhower's boss) then? Or how about Nimitz who lead the Pacific fleet? Or how about Montgomery or De Gaulle? But no, the US - and Eisenhower specifically - won the entire World war all on their own......

[@SunyiSideUp]

This is just a guess because I don't know for sure, but that may have been the way he campaigned for president. I didn't take it as Vox saying "this person won WW2 all by himself!" I took it as a reference to how people in America at that time saw him. Sort of like how John McCain campaigned as a war hero. The statement alone reminds me of how slogan-happy they were back then. And he famously had the slogan "I Like Ike!"

[@mlkandkookies519]

Why does she remind me of umbridge 1:07

[@enriquethetrombonist1901]

strawbrytea 😂

[@actuallybored9498]

mlkandkookies Ikr

[@kavya.mishra]

my thoughts exactly !!😂

[@prem0911]

I thought I am the only one😂

[@Abdulrahman-yo4dh]

Quick fun fact : pink was for boys and blue was for girls.

[@JoseGomez-ys3zs]

Yes, it's a good thing that pink means tough and blue means dainty. In 1953, I believe that if a lot of women still wear blue, apparently, that was kinda sexist.

[@JoseGomez-ys3zs]

Funner fact that pink as a feminine color became a mainstream of femininity. Decades later, also known as these days, I believe that is sexist that most people don't even know that pink means tough. 😂

[@fartgirl6284]

isn’t that what this video was talking about tho?

[@nai7350]

Every one can wear every colour The end.

[@mksalvador4655]

yes because pink is kind of a purple ish shade and purple is a color that high ranking people use before and of course with women underappreciated back in the days, men would always be found to be wearing this kind of shades...

[@hang1iderswing]

I wish this video had gotten into the more complex and controversial area of pink being used in a negative way- as feminity attached to pink, wearing pink became seen as negative. When I was a young girl, pink symbolizes everything bad about women- shallow, catty, air headed- and many girls defined their identity as "not the type of girl who wears pink."

[@reallypinkscug]

I don't like flashy neon and hot pinks, or any flashy colours to be fair, but more muted, lighter pinks, like the kind when the setting sun reflects on clouds, are the kind I like.

[@xexpaguette]

@@reallypinkscug Me too! Especially the light pastel ones, those are my favourite pink. Warning: Boring colour opinions ahead I believe that every colour is equal, though they have pros and cons. E.g. I only like dark greens, and I love both lilac and dark purple, but not neon. I say purple is my favourite colour because I like the most types of purple. Woah this is way too much stuff.

[@0h0h0h0]

Yuuuup and now my favourite colour is pink (I used to say it was blue, only realised the irony of this recently)

[@mikei6605]

exactly, men saw that women were using the colour to empower themselves and proceeded to use it against them.

[@gudegudemeh5195]

This comment deserves more like. I used to get bullied for liking pink and basically all my friends make themselves look cool by saying they hate pink. It’s so frustrating.

[@memisemyself]

I thought that the allies won WW2 but it seems that one guy did it all on his own, wow.

[@danhatman3538]

Eisenhower? No it was the one before him, he just nuked japan

[@HoneyBeauBeau]

Roosevelt was there during the majority of the war. He died in his 4th term near the tail end of the war. Eisenhower just finished it.

[@SkiDaBird]

That would be Truman. Ike was the most prominent general in Europe.

[@HoneyBeauBeau]

+SkiDaBird Oh yeah. My mistake. Eisenhower was a general during the end of WWII. I always get the two moved up.

[@cagedtigersteve]

Audie Murphy.

[@parixo]

I’m a girl and love pink. Any boys or girls wanna gush over it with me and talk about how stylish it is? 😍💖

[@ayumiichu]

Yas!

[@FaithlessGhost]

Yes I love pink I don't understand why people think it's so cool to not like it. It is a very pretty color

[@simiedulay]

Can't resist pink !! 💝

[@madisondavis5719]

paris omg I love rose gold hair it literally looks amazing on everybody

[@berry.mixxxx]

cant blame someone for liking to be stylish 😌💅💖

[@jjk4891]

I love pink! It goes well with a lot of things and just a pleasant color to look at it. My favorite hue is the subtle pastel pink that makes you think of cherry blossoms! They are a beauty :)

[@ruchick6155]

I like those punky deep ones that somehow go with everything except yellow

[@Marcello30able]

It's a very american centric view on pink becoming girly, what about the rest of the world?

[@xHyloidx]

Marcello30able This video is mainly targeted towards audiences from the western world. And in the western world the U.S. always leads the way when it comes to modern culture. In Europe people probably started to view pink in the same way as the Americans because Europe usually adopts American culture.

[@turkaan]

Exactly!!! Pink is almost globally percieved as a female colour and they keep yappin' about americans.? so full of themselves

[@xHyloidx]

***** Yes I think that is exaclty right.

[@shway1]

***** Still better than traditional culture

[@merrymachiavelli2041]

xHyloidx ? That's a bit one-sided. In the fashion industry, for instance, many of the famous significant designers of the 20th century were European. In Music, British artists have also played a pretty major role in shaping pop culture. I'll concede that pink being girl may be originally American, but on the whole America doesn't lead popular culture so much as America and Europe influence each other.

[@jonasrla]

Why people hate so much this color association? I mean, people can wear whatever they want. How does a color define someone's personality?

[@KennyHazy97]

The complaint I've often heard is the 'Pink Aisle'. Basically if you walk into a store, you could immediately tell the girls toys aisle by the solid band of pink lining the shelves. Pink dolls, pink clothes, pink everything. It gets so monochromatic that parents have trouble finding toys that aren't pink, as it is entirely reasonable that their daughter would prefer blue or green or any other colour. This wasn't always a problem, if you wanted an easy-bake oven a few decades ago, you could get one that looked like a 70's household appliance, rather than a lump of pink/purple plastic. Boys who like pink can have the same problem. It's not that people hate pink or its association with girls, it's the lack of diversity and choice they're unhappy with, especially a lack of choice enforced for no good reason.

[@jonasrla]

That's a good point you have there. Thank you for the explanation

[@bryna7]

Jonas Amaro because it's not an organic thing. it's shoved down your throat from birth, and if you deviate boys are told their too girly and girls to manly.

[@jonasrla]

Bryna Loewer I got it... Like other day a friend of mine showed me a barbie movie all pinky and stuff and it felt a bit depressing. It's a bit hard for us males get it, because even though people associate blue with men, it's not like we feel forced to use and consume blue stuff all the time.

[@minayazdanbin2184]

I like pink.

[@jennhoff03]

"Dwight Eisenhauer, the General who won WWII?!?!" Hahaha! :) Ok, first of all, WWII was a not a prize that a person could win. But second of all, it was kind of a group effort. ;) :'D

[@jennhoff03]

Ok, I still can't stop laughing at this. "Bobby Fischer, you have the high score!" "Really? What have I won?" "World War II!" ".....I'm not sure where to put that....."

[@vizrajr3668]

It actually used to be a Boys colour...

[@JoseGomez-ys3zs]

True

[@JoseGomez-ys3zs]

Even salmon was masculine. Red, pink, and salmon are all manly.

[@trionabyrne72]

@@JoseGomez-ys3zs Well besides Salmon, other shades like Hot Pink.

[@fartgirl6284]

i mean that *is* what this video was about

[@lilplays942]

@@JoseGomez-ys3zs I know this comment was from 1 year ago but “manly” isn’t that kind of sexist?

[@ReplicateReality]

ive now heard pink too many times i dont understand it anymore

[@k.o.h8446]

Sweet Lime That was rude.

[@reddi3574]

Why can't anyone take a joke

[@alayjachildressvideos9951]

:D PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKkkk

[@isabelladgriff]

Peeeeeeeeeeeenkkk!

[@zendpixie]

Well today Black is the color everybody screams for...

[@allanrichardson1468]

As in Goth fashion?

[@hellothere6061]

Black is my fave color :0

[@eloska589]

It's hot as hell here! * Wearing black *

[@actuallybored9498]

Black is not a colour. Its actually a lack of colour and actually a shade.

[@josael28tnz]

Red and black 👌

[@anisharahman2243]

It's all Barbie's fault, though I'm not complaining!

[@katiafillmore6960]

How is A DOLL responsble for this 🙄

[@fakename3440]

@@katiafillmore6960 it's a joke

[@thecommentdoggo7445]

@@katiafillmore6960 r/woosh

[@usersareoverrated5652]

@@fakename3440 Why are you everwhere?

[@fakename3440]

@@usersareoverrated5652 I watch popular vids on KZbin.

[@sui604]

"Dwight Eisenhower, the general who won World War II..." wow, what a strong man that must've been since he single-handedly won the WW2

[@KasraSR]

I think it's so funny whenever I wear a pink shirt some people find it necessary to tell me how "stylish" or "trendy" or "manly" I look. Thank you, but I'm pretty self-assured and secure about my masculinity and never asked for your validation. And this just a fucking shirt like any other, it doesn't make me a different person for wearing it.

[@thagrammarnazi]

Get hostile when people compliment you, you sound fun...

[@abryannahjames4315]

it's not that people find it "necessary" to say, some people just like to be nice and supportive simply for the sake of making someone feel good.

[@fabyjimenez196]

Absolute chad for saying that its just a shirt like any other

[@hananhassan4883]

To the few individuals who are using this video as a means to shout down feminism: to be honest, it's not the colour pink that many women despise, it's that as a girl the colour is literally shoved down your neck. Why is everything for little girls always pink? We'd like some variation, please.

[@mysss29]

"hey girls, be interested in fashion, but also only ever have things that are one color kthx" -- society

[@myxion2671]

Shut up

[@MaryJane-vg8wu]

Feminism? You mean the epitome of social sin? Real minds:1 Overweights who hate men:0

[@static2735]

Akira In The Red hello there! I have a question, what exactly do you think feminism is? Because from what I gather, I think you've been misinformed and that's really sad.

[@MaryJane-vg8wu]

Static Heart Are you gonna try to to convince me that feminism (3rd wave) is a good thing? Also when I said "overweights who hate men", I was exaggerating.

[@gothicprincess4834]

Pink is my favourite colour. My favourite colours are: Dark sparkly pink, dark purple, electric blue, forest green, aqua, gold, sliver, black, grey red, pastel colours (pink, purple, blue, & green), neon colours (pink, purple, blue, green & yellow) & dark colours. & I don't mind white. My least favourite colours are: Brown, orange (sometimes), peach/salmon & poop green.

[@reallypinkscug]

Favourite colours: Sky blue, navy blue, slate grey, light pink, aqua, black & white together, natural colours (dark green, brown of trees, etc.) royal & pastel purples, most bird colours (as I absolutely love birds) Least favourite: Flashy colours, dark olive, pink-orange, dark brown.

[@jaded8578]

i like pink, neon orange, turquoise, silver, anything pastel, pink-orange, all the light shades of blue, blue-purple...

[@primo4915]

i didnt know there were that many colors

[@oxfordpictionary]

It’s also funny how we think of pink as its own colour. Some other languages think of pink as just a variation of red. Interestingly, in Russian, dark blue and light blue are actually considered two full different colours, not just different shades of the same colour. They have totally different names

[@Homemadegameguru]

Or...maybe Hillary just likes the color Pink and her choice in wearing it has nothing to do with breaking the glass ceiling.

[@Triplechoco52]

Vox has been pro Hillary lately. nothing to freak out about but it leaves a distaste in my mouth trying to shove politics in their videos.

[@bryna7]

Jay G unless it's the candidate you want, huh?

[@Triplechoco52]

Bryna Loewer​ I voted 3rd party mind you, so what candidate do you think I want to be shoved down our throats by these conglomerate news media outlets? Cool down, look in the mirror, and chill.

[@ashrisi4082]

Well, she doesn’t dress herself for things like magazine shoots, and some public events. She has a team of stylists, and the magazine has a team of stylists, and they actually go and study the psychological affects of wearing different styles and colours, things like that. So it is very plausible that Hillary wore pink as a metaphor of breaking the glass ceiling, feminism, etc., but its pretty unlikely that it was her idea.

[@icecold1805]

Nothing a politician does is merely out of personal preference. Every dress, every move, every single breath they take is a deeply calculated move planned by thousands of specialists hired by the party to script the perfect politician.

[@dalmationblack]

One thing I'm slightly annoyed at is that they didn't mention the feminist movement at all in how pink became a girls color, as they also had significant involvement.

[@taylorsweeney9377]

When you're glad someone in the comments actually brought this up

[@easypeasypiano6118]

How was the feminist movement involved?

[@redhot663]

But feminists hate pink

[@Carmen-rb2yd]

redhot663 This is such a dumb comment

[@h.poirot7788]

redhot663 no. Not all feminists hate pink. Just some and that is simply a color preference, not a gender thing.

[@johanna-hypatiacybeleia2465]

I always associated the development with the paired paintings The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough (1779) and Pinkie by Thomas Lawrence (1794). When I was a young girl in the 1960s mass reproductions of those two kept each other company in a million middle class American homes. It was the Huntington Library collection that first paired these two paintings that originally had nothing to do with each other. Pinkie and the Blue Boy were the idealized images of childhood my generation was raised on. My parents had them in our home and so did practically all their friends.

[@calebhowells1116]

Interestingly, there was a study recently which found that the phrases 'pink for girls' and 'blue for boys' actually appear numerous times in literature from the 1800s.

[@pandypop1]

I like pink in pretty much all shades, but I think its a little sad that it used to be a unisex colour and that men and boys often wore pink only for someone to end up labeling it as more of a female colour, I know men do wear pink still, but they can be seen as a little feminine if they like the colour a lot and its a shame, pretty sure they are just regular guys :P

[@ellog100]

Boys do often get bullied by other boys for wearing feminine clothing or just in some way acting feminine. Since pink is seen as a "girly" colour and is mostly worn by girls thanks to various reasons this does make a lot of men and the parents afraid of buying pink clothing to their children, afraid of breaking the norm. And yes this is a little sad.

[@allanrichardson1468]

The recent focus on breast cancer research with the promotion of pink clothing as a fund raising gimmick has resulted in a number of manly male celebrities wearing pink, and even men’s professional athletic contests in which both teams wear partially pink uniforms. So that may help restore pink to a unisex color, which is ironic since pink was chosen to represent breast cancer research BECAUSE it has come to represent girls.

[@irrelevance3859]

I wish more men wore pink. Its very overly gendered colour it is. Too accociated with women. Not even blue has that problem. Its just pink.

[@tori2dles]

You forgot Jackie Kennedy's iconic pink suit & pill box hat.

[@allanrichardson1468]

tori2dles Which was eight years later. Both First Ladies were lovely in pink. Jackie continued and intensified the fashion. And it’s especially tragic that she was wearing the pink suit when her husband was shot.

[@lovelylipbonesouwwwwwwwolv2198]

And around 2018 Lik Nas x weared a pink suit aswell

[@robieuyuyan]

This is one of my favorite videos from Vox.

[@tanvikumar17]

When you say things like "Took a survey across the country.." please mention which country you are refferring to.

[@maidy199]

While this might sound plausible, it seems to me as if it ignored the rest of the world and attributed it solely to American influence. This might be true but I just think the analysis is not complete here...

[@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai]

Nintendo Pink and Blue

[@sywitz]

American capitalism has huge influences on global pop culture, especially starting in the 50s. It could have impacted other countries

[@trenzinhodaalegria8012]

But americans had an enormous influence over the planet after WWII. And I mean ENORMOUS. Just look at Brazil...

[@soaribb32]

Mohamed Abdelhack But that's the point, America really did take over the culture of many countries in a way that we didn't ask for but didn't notice either.

[@MeltingOnYourMind]

João Vitor👏yes

[@Codiliabra]

I adore black and white. They are my favorite...well-I can't say color, and that is one reason I love the two _hues?_ Black and White literally are the lack of color. Plus, they always look nice.

[@p_272]

"Did you see that coffee stain on my skirt? No. Of course not. It's black" I absolutely adore black

[@narnieism]

Pardon Me, are you Aaron Burr sir

[@neelienil8998]

Well technically white is everyy color, but also technically that makes it no colorr so yeah you’re rightt

[@micosstar]

(Replying to:aaron burr, sir Date and Time: 8:09PM May 13, 2018 Sunday Pacific Daylight Time) *sees the SU (Steven Universe) Ruby profile picture and the description "I don't make vids" Ok, sir, your profile pic gives me thoughts, and well they're not good ones, ok sir.......... *gets thoughts from SU, and how the fandom is awaiting for Season 5, and other stuff relating to it. Edit on 8:27PM May 13, 2018, Sunday: added more manners

[@fartgirl6284]

i don’t wanna be that person but black isn’t a hue and it’s actually referred to as a color bcuz that’s a general term

[@sakurachristineito6428]

Vox has such beautiful contents! Keep it up!!

[@abracadabra7690]

I love how pink went from rebellious for women to traditional to girly girly...

[@ihategoogle2382]

I never liked pink as a girl. And when I have children, I won't dress them in "gender-appropriate" colours cause that's just a bunch of hooey

[@taliahass1234]

Right but what if your daughter likes pink? You'll prevent her from wearing it?

[@ihategoogle2382]

Talia Hass Of course not. I've had girl pupils who love pink and can't stop talking about their new pink this and that. I learned to tolerate it.

[@Evija3000]

+Ihategoogle+ Same. Yellow and blue look so nice on little girls. I don't get why half the items sold for girls are pink and pretty much everything for boys is blue or green. P.s If I had a pink obsessed girl, I'd try to convert her to purple which is close =]

[@No-xi2gq]

My mom had to wear pink as a baby because people kept calling her a boy so I'm not against pink being a girly color but anyone can wear it

[@Evija3000]

CherryBlossom Heh, my brother was afraid of scissors as a child so he had long lushious hair and people thougt he was a girl. I guess you're right that the colors could help show the kid's gender in some cases.

[@AustynChervenka]

little politicized at the end?

[@abirmef9510]

i've always wondered why lol ! i'm so grateful for vox honestly the team is genius!

[@raynemichelle2996]

I'm not a fan of either blue or pink, but mix them together, I'm into it. I love purple. Periwinkle to plum. Lavender to violet.

[@danellbautista521]

I believe that all colors are gender neutral.

[@madshansen2082]

At 3:19 i thought it was Hillary that was talking xD

[@blueheartsandroses1]

HA! I knew blue was a feminine color. Lol.

[@TheFeldhamster]

In former times blue was the feminine color because Maria, the mother of Jesus was typically pictured wearing a blue shawl. Red was considered a masculine color because it's the color of blood and "men fight". From this came the colors light blue and pink (which is basically "light red") for small children - they were called "little blue" and "little red" back then (IIRC in French). So for quite a long time rich ppl would dress their little boys in pink and their little girls in light blue. (Poor ppl would only have had basically grey clothes back then.)

[@JoseGomez-ys3zs]

True, blue is also an emotional color. 😂

[@SubliminalQueen368]

@Maliha Rahman in different languages it is Maria, not Mary. not everyone speaks English

[@qaimaali6546]

I literally never thought of it ... great concept 👏👏

[@AgentTBone]

1:08 She looks like that one woman from Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix.

[@yaminahmed9680]

Tanner Houston Dolores Umbridge

[@lr7845]

Ugh. _Umbridge._ 😦

[@allanrichardson1468]

Mamie was much nicer. I think the author and/or costume designers chose that look for Umbridge as a parody of the “very proper” woman, but with a mean streak hidden under the polite manner. The American actress Louise Fletcher is good at portraying that kind of character, for example, Nurse Ratched in the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (the film debut of Jack Nicholson) in the 1970s, and Vedek (later Kai) Winn, the corrupt Bajoran religious leader in the 1990s series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.”

[@observingrogue7652]

I really like women. I really like vaginas. I like strawberry flavors. I hate breast cancer. I should like pink a lot more.

[@chongjunxiang3002]

I like Pink Panther and PP don't has official gender.

[@HollyBlossom]

Observing Rogue if you hate breast cancer or cancer at all, reduce the risk and eat a plant based diet

[@astrowiz3544]

Nestor Tejeda lmao

[@anjleesidhartha4541]

Observing Rogue that's one way to think of it

[@DickerWaal]

I was reading in the book Politics of Design that this separation of the pink and blue dilemma started intensely around the 40s 50s as mass production was gradually becoming the new norm. Companies have realized that you can sell more when a colour is specifically assigned to a group of people.. to me it's truly is saddening as how strongly we still live in this binary thinking society while there are so many genders out there - and how can we associate one colour to a whole generalized group? We can deconstruct the socially constructed norms if we start thinking out of the box. It's intriguing to me as colours itself are just reflections and fractions, so to the core, how you perceive blue will be certainly different to how I perceive it

[@potatopanda1708]

I love pink when I was a kid, I want every thing I had was in pink, but when I've grown up, I like every colors base on my mood.

[@liamtrumbore2570]

My favorite color is pink and I used to get bullied A LOT because of it

[@stefanfrunza1697]

Or maybe you shouldn't bully anyone. There's a radical idea. "Bully" them for not liking pink. You have the maturity of a 10 year old with that statement.

[@stefanfrunza1697]

***** As it seems. Doesn't give you justification for crude judgement however, but who cares.

[@k.2283]

Piero can u read?

[@otakufangirl3195]

Liam Trumbore it s your favourite colour then fine. People are stupid

[@lr7845]

anime otaku It looks like they were replying to a comment that later was deleted

[@jellyocean1000]

Who cares though? Im a girl and i think all colors are great :D (although lemon yellow is my favorite lol)

[@_____1865]

right? I never heard someone liking lemon yellow haha

[@reallypinkscug]

I don't like lemon yellow. Too flashy for my (very sensitive) eyes.

[@reddi3574]

I like GREYISH green

[@Nemo7The7Pirate7]

Miss Valentine?!

[@seska1245]

Ive always wondered this. Thank you!

[@user-tr9kj5ub3u]

Remember colors are for everyone Even pink or other girly colors.... EVEN MAKEUP! WAKE UP PEOPLE!

[@nai7350]

Yessssssssssssss

[@KasiaWesoek]

Am I the only girl that love pink?

[@BlazerT48]

Kasia Wesołek obviously no silly

[@KasiaWesoek]

BlazerT48 I know, but everyone writes 'I am original, because I don't like pink'. I don't like this kind of post, so...

[@michz9304]

Kasia Wesołek Nope I love pink !

[@Taggez1]

No, I love it too!

[@twocraftingbunny1792]

Pink is my second favourite color after mint!

[@ramonluque1850]

why is Hilary even related to this?

[@trionabyrne72]

Is there any shades of pink that most Women and men like and wear?

[@rickastley-729]

Cuz it’s vox

[@nishthavashisht3791]

in short : American marketing strategy did this to us.

[@lindsayhengehold5341]

Excellent! Love Vox as well!

[@user-dv3dg5sq7u]

A lot of men in Europe wear pink t-shirts and and polo shirts

[@connorhess7578]

1:06 Is that Dolores Umbridge?

[@allanrichardson1468]

Connor Hess No, but they put Dolores Umbridge in a similar outfit because of the association with the traditional “nice older lady” to make her hateful nature show up more. As a military officer’s wife, Mamie had to get along with many officers and their wives for Ike’s entire career in order for him to be as successful as he was. As best as I can remember (I was four when Ike became President and twelve when he left office), Mamie had no association with anything unpleasant or scandalous, before, during, or after her husband’s time in office.

[@tripleaaa4649]

🌷🌷🌷Kulay Rosas ang Bukas🌷🌷🌷 Eng: Pink is the Color of Hope

[@anikadiamond007]

I always wonder this. Thank you! Very interesting.

[@nehalsingh3094]

I love all the colours ..And especially those that suits me..I never thought I would like orange but when my mom forcefully made me wear an orange top..DANG!!! That looked pretty on me...

[@trionabyrne72]

It doesn't really matter what shade of pink suits our skin complexions eye colors and hair colour, it all depends on someone's favourite color in a different shade.

[@TSFboi]

Amazing video!

[@stephisthebestfr]

so in conclusion, wear whatever you want and be happy

[@Dramilos]

0:01 this song gives me a felling of being a woman in a pool in new york in the 30's

[@Sama-mx4fd]

I just hope that in the future they will not make white a girly color and black a boyish color

[@theariana1o1]

I feel like light pink has become so popular that everyone at my school has been wearing light pink hoodies

[@btetschner]

Thank you for the video.

[@svscrib8922]

I always heard that pink became "feminine" because during WW2, homosexuals were tagged with a pink armband, and that after the war it was dubbed a girly color. Before then, pink was worn by males.

[@Kim-iq7ph]

My history teacher said men that came back from the war didnt like pink because it reminded them of the color of blood.

[@astrowiz3544]

well thats bs

[@yaminahmed9680]

But isnt red/dark shades of red associated with blood?

[@reallypinkscug]

+Patriarchal Sun Okay, so once I had an assignment called "Excellence in Eloquence" where everyone had to write up a speech and present it to the class and also have a school competition for top in the class. Now one day, I was practising in front of my family. Then something happened, and I kind of stopped breathing from how very nervous I was. Now, seeing the very name in my new school's hallway or seeing my old school (where I got the assignment) reminds me of it... Even writing this comment and mentioning anything related to it makes the memory resurface. I now try to avoid the sign, but am strangely drawn to it, same thing whenever I pass my old school... It's really uncomfortable. 😟 I've deleted the file containing it forever to have every trace of it erased from my computer.

[@user-kq4gn3jz7h]

Red left the chat

[@JohnnyCatFitz]

I've always loved ed pink though ive not always had it in my wardrobe. When my grammar painted my bedroom pink at age 4 or 5, I was over the moon! It was my happy place ,I often woke up happy, went to sleep soundly.

[@mksalvador4655]

i LOOOOOVE your content ♡♡♡

[@jamestaylor954]

I would like to see episode about how skirts, high heels, and wigs was originally worn by men now it’s for women.

[@jasperthe3393]

No one really wears wigs for fashion anymore. And if they do it's not women thing.

[@mikaelabowen5781]

This is interesting. Marketing bears so much responsibility for this. Once the marketing people realised that when products are gendered, they can sell twice as many, there was no going back. The colour pink was an easy feminine brand to stamp on products, pink bikes, trainers, bed linen, to name the first three that spring to mind, all ensure that, when also combined with girlie logos and association (Barbie, etc) no bloke would go dream of using them!!! But you do see masculine men wearing pink business shirts today and in the sixties it wasn't considered all girlie to drive a pink car. Historically images of the Virgin Mary frequently depict her wearing an ethereal virginal blue, while young princes were often dressed in pink as a juvenile version of regal red. And today the LGBT community has taken the colour pink to its heart. So I suspect the fashion for pink as an exclusively feminine identity is likely to pass.

[@cloudsweater]

The fact that color stereotypes are gone is amazing!!! 😊

[@nathanngumi8467]

Wow, interesting history. Thanks.

[@JohnDoe-rw4hl]

Nice ending, Vox.

[@colbyheist732]

I disagree. An innocent informative video corrupted by political bias. Should've figured. After all, this is Vox.

[@tibbygaycat]

+Colby Heist lol sure, letting in larger issues is corruption. To be unbiased they should tell things with no regard to its politics rather than trying to be inoffensive and being biased towards that.

[@yuuka926]

This theory has been debunked by numerous sociologists.

[@charltonman8485]

Colby Heist i think it was sarcasm

[@memepal6395]

After that video I opened my closet ...WOW I don't even have one piece of clothing that is pink😂😂

[@aditiarya492]

Me too

[@kerenacosta7966]

The truth was that when I was little, my mother dressed me in a couple pink outfits but she also had me in other color as as well, but I had a lot of red, pink, coral-colored clothes growing up, not because my mother was traditional, but because she knew that I looked good in those colors. Diferent reasons for colors you see. On the other hand though, I'm a little sick of wearing pink, cause I don't have a lot of growths spurts and a good portion of my clothes last long. The same pink shirt I wore when I was eleven still fits me now, even though I'm sixteen today.

[@zaidhussain6507]

This video is 6 years old but I must thank it for another sliver of knowledge in my personal encyclopaedia.

[@dejuanballard3367]

This is why it passes me off when people act mad that people buy pink things for their daughters. It was literally a huge stable of the real feminism movement. This is why people need to remember actual history, not Netflix fantasy history.

[@meintoue5737]

Pink- indicates self love So ppl who love pink are the ppl who knows their true worth

[@timberinden3426]

No

[@focusedeye]

Nicely done explanation. I tip my hat to you.

[@MrDanmir]

kakampink unite!

[@MarvinBug]

Incredible that one person on one day shapes an entire culture so profoundly

[@loveparkes]

For the first time ever I feel like Vox didn’t go deep enough on a given subject.

[@phpn99]

Americans tend to think that History and the World, start at their borders. Garment colours for centuries were a function of what dyes were available and at what cost. Organic dyes were limited in hues and a rich pink colour is hard to produce from carmine alone. As a consequence, garments were dyed in shades of green, red, blue, black, brown and yellow, for the masses, whereas purple was reserved for the elites. Pink simply wasn't an option until the advent of synthetic dyes during the 19th century. This doesn't mean that pink is a purely conventional colour for women, inspired by Mamie Einsenhauer... (preposterous !). All this means is that the choice wasn't readily available to the masses. What matter is that when the hue became broadly available, it tended to be chosen by women.

[@halletaufatofua276]

I never even thought of this!