Why do girls like pink....
By lena2000
@lena2000 (2392)
Belgium
August 30, 2007 10:31am CST
Everyone knows that blue is for boys and pink is for girls, and two researchers from the uk may have the explanation for that fact.
It seems that women may be biologically programmed to prefer the color pink, or saying that in a different way, they born with a tendency to choose pink, it's in their genes. This interesting study also found that while both men and women liked blue, women tended to pick redder shades of blue — reddish-purple hues — while men preferred blue-green.
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@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
31 Aug 07
Add me to the list of broken ppl cause I for the LONGEST time despised pink! And I have to admit that the whole "girls like/should wear pink and boys like/should wear blue" has ALWAYS drove me nuts!! I think that is just such a negative thought process to have its not even funny...Its the same with "girls play with Barbies and baby dolls and boys like tonka trucks and dirt" What a load of CRAP!
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
31 Aug 07
Wow, that is really interesting. I do know that we tend to 'program' children from birth by having pink nursery items and clothing for baby girls and blue items for boys. As the child grows the clothing is definitely 'masculine' and 'feminine' in nature. How many times do you see a deep brown infant girl outfit? Or even a toddler girl outfit? So of course girls grow up seeing pink and lavender and 'love them' while they don't appreciate brown or navy or other 'masucline' colors. I see us doing this just like we tend to give certain toys to boys and other toys to girls.
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@donnoname (79)
• United States
31 Aug 07
Yeah, you are definitely right! Maybe the girls like pink because as you said they are "programmed" in this way. I think if parents change the colours of everything around the baby in its first years, their little girl would like not pink but black for example :)
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@donnoname (79)
• United States
31 Aug 07
I don't know maybe it's in the girls DNA. And actually this season pink has become a very trendy colour for boys, too! Well, you know nowadays we live in an interesting world and everything is changing so... :)
@Mahmoud4ever (43)
• Egypt
31 Aug 07
Hi Iam Mahmoud From Egypt.
Blue is for boys and pink is for girls
Idon't think so as I like pink color more than blue.
Thats not rule
And thanks
@beyonce03 (2331)
• Canada
30 Aug 07
I'M not sure it's all true. The color I hate the most is pink. I like that colour until I had 12 years old maybe. After that no one at my school was waering pink. Now pink is a colour that his back, but I still don't like it. My favorite colour is blue and all kind of blue. Almost all my clothes are blue. 2 years ago I started to waer other color like red and orange.
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@pristine_eyes (31)
• Philippines
30 Aug 07
yes, i agree with lecanis. i hated pink as a child too. i preferred blue. :)
