How did pink become a girly color?

Jennifer Wright explains how the color pink became associated with girls.

[MzFoRi]

So basically it was just a trend, that turned into a gender role.

[julianapanepento]

Cinderella wore a blue dress and came out in 1950, princess Aurora from sleeping beauty wears a pink dress and came out in 1959. I don't think this is a coincidence.

[bradhp]

So basically women defying gender roles in the 50's just created another gender role?

GENDERCEPTION.

[Dksnsiznwuah]

It’s weird that people are generally ok with any colour on women but people think it’s strange when men wear pink/purple

[AloysWalterStefan]

Pink is the color of raw flesh. Pink is metal af.

[BuzzZu]

I feel like Vox is like a higher quality and more trustworthy version of parts of buzzfeed

[jordyypink]

My last name is Pink and when I was a kid I used to want to change it to Blue lol

[ZiaRDS]

I'm sure she was a lovely woman, but she looks like Dolores Umbridge.
Did anyone else see that?

[georgialamb]

Did anyone else go through a phase in elementary/middle school where they were all like "ew I hate pink its too girly" until they realized there was literally nothing wrong with like it and now love the color?

[BtwAlice]

I don’t know why there’s a damn stereotype that girls who like pink are fragile, dreamy, childish, girly, vain, not independent, bla bla bla. I mean, where is that come from? Whenever i say i love pink, people treat me like a silly little kid and immediately underestimate me.

[tromboner]

this video should be shown to everyone everywhere. COLOR HAS NO GENDER!! it's just an interest

[hangiderswing]

I wish this video had gotten into the more complex and controversial area of pink being used in a negative way- as feminity attached to pink, wearing pink became seen as negative. When I was a young girl, pink symbolizes everything bad about women- shallow, catty, air headed- and many girls defined their identity as "not the type of girl who wears pink."

[memisemyself]

I thought that the allies won WW2 but it seems that one guy did it all on his own, wow.

[flo_wer]

im a girl and pink is my favorite color. i prefer light shades of pink though.
i dont consider myself as girly, but i just see pink as a really pretty color.

[Abdulrahman-yodh]

Quick fun fact : pink was for boys and blue was for girls.

[janethart]

My son loves pink. I don't believe its just a girl's color.

[svillegassmusic]

I'm a straight guy and I love the color pink

[FromCanadaMarco]

"the general who won WW2"
That's just a stupid sentence.,

[cynnimini]

The problem with pink arises by the segregated marketing of children's toys. Honestly I don't think we would hate it this much if every article for young girls wasn't glittery pink and had "little princess" written all over it...

[vizrajr]

It actually used to be a Boys colour...