Food for Thought
- Daisy Mae
- May 26, 2016
- 1 min read
The Princess Revolution
''Pink is for boys and blue is for girls.
That was the rule for dressing infants back in 1893, as one woman explained itthat year to The New York Times. “Of course,” she said. “Why, if everyone chose a different color, baby clothes would be all mixed. Always give pink to a boy and and blue to a girl.”
It wasn’t until the 1940s that cultural norms flipped, according to the historian Jo Paoletti, who wrote the book Pink and Blue: Telling the Girls From the Boys in America. The idea that pink is for girls and blue is for boys has been persistent in the United States ever since.
Today, parents aren’t just faced with a dividing line across colors, but a whole parade of animal mascots that are similarly separated by gender...''
by ADRIENNE LAFRANCE
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