Girls shouldn't buy pink ..

[smurfchops]

What will they decide to ban next? Haven't they got a life ? Blue for boys I suppose.

http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/

[joggerjayne]

Oh, that is just weird.

Do they want us all to be the same? All grey and androgenous?

I like girls to be girls, and boys to be boys.

I don't want to be like a bloke (although a lot of guys here in Brighton are a bit like "laydees")

Vive la difference !!!

[ummmm]

How stupid. I was a real tomboy as a kid and wouldn't dream of wearing pink. Now it's my favourite colour. It's also my youngest sons favourite colour...as well as purple and glitter...

[Philtaz]

Does this really belong in Media & TV? Maybe Shopping or Society & Culture?

[ummmm]

Who really cares Phil?

[sherrardk]

It's not the pink that I object to so much as the slutty tatt that is aimed at little girls - magazines with princesses in and make up stuck on the front (for 4/5 year olds!).

[ummmm]

And pretend bras...

[123everton]

A breast cancer is using a pink ribbon for it's logo, as a man I'm loathe to wear pink and object to such a gender specific emblem for a cause I'd otherwise openly support.
Men suffer because of breast cancer too.

[saxy_jag]

It's not so much the colour preference as what it stands for. Back in the 1980s retailers and toy/clothing manufacturers began to shift away from the stereotyping of stuff for boys and girls. Now it seems they're going back to it. Girls, according to marketing lore, are pretty, pink-wearing princesses and boys go on adventures, wear strong colours and build things.

A retailer was on BBC this morning saying, albeit truthfully, that he only sells what kids ask for, but it's the marketing and advertising people who tell them what to want.

People have complained for years that not enough women go into engineering and technology. Is it any wonder when they're encouraged to surround their worlds with all things pink, pretty and fluffy - including their role models?

[joggerjayne]

Why is Everton reluctant to wear pink?

Guys look great in pink (shirts ... maybe not trousers).

[daffy654]

My gay stepson loves the colour,he has a pink mobile phone,pink Nintendo DS,pink MP3 Player etc. :-)

[joggerjayne]

Pink works for non-gay guys, too

(well, I've given my BF several pink shirts, so I hope so)

[redcrx]

i like the fact that ELC do different colours in some products. My son wants a doll and pushchair but says that he wants a blue one. I have never said that pink is for girls etc and yet he sees it all on tv, with fashion, with dolls etc.
At least offering pink or blue is bridging the whole girl / boy divide. Who is saying these pink products are aimed at girls though, perhaps boys are requesting pink things?

[ummmm]

My son loves pink.

[saxy_jag]

I have to say, my own son loves pink, too and, in fact, it suits him very well. When he was little, he had a pink bedroom and chose the occasional item of pink clothing. His dad is also a pink lover, not the least because it makes certain not-so-nice people in the course of his work feel very uneasy and that puts him at a slight advantage..

As I said, it's not so much the colour (although I don't like it and it doesn't suit me at all), just the whole pretty, frilly, princessy gender stereotyping of female role models - and conversely, the macho stereotyping of male ones too.