Girl Gear Pink Computer Equipment....

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:25:15PM -0400, aaron d wrote:
> I think it's silly that pink is STILL a "girl" colour.

Yeah you would think after 70 or so years things get get changed up
a little.

> I would love to own a pink filco majestouch, some would laugh im sure, but
> those same people probably use logitech garbage.
> 
> My previous computer desk was pink (IKEA!).
> 
> I wear pink shirts too.

I have done so at times too.  Looks good.

> Pink rocks.

In the past pink was a manly colour.  Until the 1940s, red and pink were
associated with men (after all they are such bright and bold colours)
and blue was associated with women (it is much more subdued after all)
in western culture, after that it swapped and has stayed that way since.
Before that there apparently wasn't really any idea of colours having
anything to do with gender.

After all do people want red or blue sports cars?

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