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Not sure if everypony has heard, but earlier this year, Target announced that they would be removing pink and blue and other gender “color codes” from their Toy and most other departments (excluding clothing), in order to be more egalitarian, and this piece is pretty much my impression of everyone complaining about it. :D
It strikes me as strange that so many folks believe this whole “Blue Team”/“Pink Team” thing as been around forever, when it’s actually a fairly recent development in human history, which got its start in the 1930’s and 40’s, and was largely decided for us by clothing corporations. Some of us have grandparents who actually remember a time before it existed. Even a time when pink was considered “strong and masculine” and blue was regarded as “passive and feminine”. :P
More than anything, this whole matter just seems to dredge up both how much ignorance prevails in our society, as well as how flexible human culture really is…
(features modified screencaps from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
Not sure if everypony has heard, but earlier this year, Target announced that they would be removing pink and blue and other gender “color codes” from their Toy and most other departments (excluding clothing), in order to be more egalitarian, and this piece is pretty much my impression of everyone complaining about it. :D
It strikes me as strange that so many folks believe this whole “Blue Team”/“Pink Team” thing as been around forever, when it’s actually a fairly recent development in human history, which got its start in the 1930’s and 40’s, and was largely decided for us by clothing corporations. Some of us have grandparents who actually remember a time before it existed. Even a time when pink was considered “strong and masculine” and blue was regarded as “passive and feminine”. :P
More than anything, this whole matter just seems to dredge up both how much ignorance prevails in our society, as well as how flexible human culture really is…
(features modified screencaps from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
Not me.
Everyone else:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwBNpIoPQz8
That is true, but we are talking about human history specifically.
@Dustin Lange
“Recent” is a relative term.
Humans discovering fire could be considered recent if you consider the history of the earth (and the universe in general).
30’s and 40’s isn’t recent human history? You might want to take a look at a human history timeline…
http://humanhistorytimeline.com/
Boys and Girls tend to enjoy different things, and companies market based on that distinction in demographics, if anything is ignorance it’s thinking that removing a bunch of colors is going to change that.
Also 30’s and 40’s hardly recent human history, that’s older than the holocaust for crying out loud.