My own experiment - little girls don't chose. Pink

[SecretTryer]

I was working at our school fete and the little prizes for a ball game were key rings to hang on their school bag. Mostly little alien things with goggly eyes in a variety of colours.
When they won, I let the children pick which colour they want by holding up three or four in my hand and saying pick one.
The girls hardly ever (about 1 time of of 10) picked a pink one if offered and more. Boys than girls (about 3 or 4 out of ten) did pick the pink one when offered.
I found it fascinating and thought I would share!
Where do toyshops do their research? Or is it some sort of subliminal conditioning that's not working when girls are given a choice. Why are we pushing pink on them at all?

No problem dame :)

Socialisation of girls to be nice begins very very early :( it's so sad ...

Thankfully here shops still are a mass of primary colours. Long may it remain so!

Mine does. Every time - and anything glittery and sparkly, she's like a magpie.

I fucking hate pink.

It's the lack of choice in shops that gets to me. If you wandered into a clothing store and the choices for boys and girls were red, yellow, green, orange, blue, pink and purple and STILL the girls all chose pink, and the boys all chose blue then it wouldn't really bother me.

But instead you get little boys dressed in mini-man clothes, and when I go shopping for my nieces the options are pink, fuscia, magenta, salmon, coral or rose and maybe purple if you're daring!

Personally I loved pink growing up. Still do know. I've never seen it as a set of rules, I kick ass and make my own choices.

My room is currently pink, my bedding pink, my Journal pink!

I think it's only a colour, (maybe not a popular opinion) but for me it means very little beyond anything else.

My DS who is 6 also partakes in pinkness.

Dd1 loves pink. I'm not telling her she can't have pink, I'm telling her she can have anything she wants.

I'm fed up with the idea that in order for my dd's to do well in life they have to dress 'like a boy' in 'boy colours'.

Feminism should take pink and make it the fucking power colour it actually is.

If one more arsehole buys dd2 red, purple or green - anything trying to avoid pink I'm going to refuse it.

I didn't know any kids for years and then all of a sudden I had a few nieces and nephews at once so I ended up going into kids' clothes shops to buy them clothes.

I was utterly horrified at how gendered it was, and I still am. I can buy lovely clothes for little boys in all kinds of colours, and I walk over to the girls' section and it is literally all pink and white. That pissed me right off. How have we ended up like this when it's 2016? No wonder little girls are often dressed in pink and attracted to pink stuff - they become completely conditioned because there isn't anything else! So I have rebelled and my nieces are all getting boys' clothes for Christmas!

I don't think girls liking pink is the problem (or people liking to dress their daughters in pink)... everything "girly" or "for girls" being coral, magenta, baby pink, fuschia, salmon, flamingo etc is the problem.

It all hinges on choice.

It's about the associations with the colour, not the colour itself. Plus the unnecessary coding of things by gender that really don't need to be split by gender. Like science kits being coded for boys and imaginative play/crafts being coded for girls. Then things coded for girls are associated with a lesser value or worth.

So, personally, pink isn't my favourite colour. But I bought a few pink things for my boys as it's just one colour amongst many, and I'm trying to fight against the associations that come with it.