[ SECRET POST #5007 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5007 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Mixed feelings

[(Anonymous)]

As a kid my favorite color genuinely WAS pink, but I had a constant barrage of "you don't have to like pink just because you're a girl, you can like whatever color you want!" by well-meaning relatives, but hearing it all the time made me start to think liking pink was bad, so I told everyone my favorite color was blue. I was very anti-pink until I was a teenager and went through a phase of hardcore loving pink because I realized it was okay to do so, until I got tired of it. My favorite color genuinely has been blue for the past several years, although lately I've been in a mint green & coral phase where I want ALL THE THINGS in those colors.

I guess my point is that it's really not that serious. I've never seen those studies you mentioned, but unless people are constantly telling her she HAS to like or dislike certain colors, I can't imagine it really having much of an effect. Just let her know it's okay to like whatever she likes and she'll figure it out eventually.

Re: Mixed feelings

[(Anonymous)]

Her parents are trying to let her pick her own way through these things. The main concern is the packaging - have you seen how color coded toys packaging is these days? It's insidious.

Re: Mixed feelings

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Ah, I haven't. I don't have kids, or any close friends or relatives that do (at least not young kids; I have younger cousins but they're teenagers so not really buying toys) so I never have a reason to see kids' toys.

Unfortunately there's not much that can be done about those kinds of things in society at large, at least on individual level. I saw in another comment where you mentioned that she said blue is for boys and she should like pink because she's a girl, and you're right that she obviously got that kind of idea somewhere, and it's pretty messed up. All I can think of is when it comes up again, to say "whoever told you that is wrong, girls and boys can both like any color they want" but I don't know how well that would work for a kid.

I don't know, this is kind of a tough one.