Are you drawn to items in the colour pink?

b3t4

Hi ladies and manly lurkers,

I was just posting in another thread and it got me to wondering how many other females are like myself. I'm not a huge fan and it annoys me when some new item that I'd like to purchase comes out and it is only available in pink. I'm not sure where this lack of like for pink has come from. I can't remember being drawn to pink items when I was a kid either. Although, I am rather fond of red roses but have a similar dislike for pink roses which is daft as the old english rose which has a gorgeous smell is generally pink. Anyways, I digress

I mean the colour pink is fine and dandy but I'm just not a fan but because I'm female it's assumed that I like that colour. I'm not a fan of assumptions but I'm sure them there marketing compaines wouldn't spend so much money if the majority of us female lots didn't swoon to it.

Us females are meant to be more drawn to pink on a basic level due to a hangover from the fruit gathering days. I read that somewhere years ago.

So who's with me on this and who's a pink fiend?

A.

Otis Driftwood

Personally I would view females that wear an excessive amount of pink as being in a certain age group.I have female pals ranging from 18/19 to late 30s early 40s and the vast majority of the ladies aged 33+ wear little or no pink,the mid 20s to mid 30s wear a small amount(generally casual wear)and the ones under 24 wear quite alot.Of course this is a huge generalisation and I havnt seen all their clothes so I couldnt say for sure but this seems to be the pattern.As for guys wearing pink,I just do not get it,I really dont.Ive heard every excuse under the sun - Im comfortable in my sexuality(WTF does that have to do with it,Im very comfortable as a hetero late 20s male but I dont feel the need to wear pink clothes),its not pink-its salmon(BTW,what is salmon?a pink fish is what!!)and various other crackers.My arguement to any guy that wears pink shirts etc would be - If its that acceptable,lets go to a sports store and I will buy a pink tracksuit.If its ok to wear a pink shirt/jumper why not the full ensemble?Bah,stupid fashion trends.
Anyway,pink on ladies(not too much)=good
Pink on blokes=not so good.

All IMHO of course!

DancingDaisy

Oddly enough, I think the reason I don't like pink is because I'm awkward and dislike the whole blue for boys and pink for girls.

From a young age I would always pick the blue stuff, or purple if it was available, and shun the pink. I don't actually dislike the colour, in fact I think some shades are really nice, in the same way I feel about other colours. However, I avoid buying it purely because the gender colour thing exists, which is probably silly and kinda means I'm reinforcing the stereotype. :cool:

GirlInterrupted

I love pink.

Being tall, I'm very, very careful to avoid the wearing of too much pink as I don't want to look like a lanky ice-lolly, and I'm not a fan of pink in decor as it can look a little childish.

But still, my love of pink remains.


A great deal of my underwear is pink, I have a pink phone, a pink laptop, lots of pink socks. I have a pink floral toolkit and my favourite shoes are pink. I like to think that the roots of my pink love are in being the only girl in the family. The more pink an item was, the less likely it was to be 'borrowed' by one of my brothers.

The older I get the more I try to reign it in, but still I find the pull of the pink hard to resist.:o

Crumble Froo

never liked the colour. ever. i remember all the other kids in playschool making fun of me cos i painted my paper plate black.

i have to admit to spending a lot of time looking somewhat down on the girls who would flock to pink, just the usual brainwashed, cant think for themselves crap. anyone who'd spend the extra money to buy the same appliance , but in the colour pink.... man, they saw those chicks coming...

buuuuuuutttttt, i admit, now, if i had the money, and i had the choice in colours, i might just spend that extra coupla dollars if i got a pretty black or deep purple shiny thing.

rainbow kirby

I don't mind the colour tbh. I don't rush out to buy something just because it's pink, but if something I *do* want is available in pink then I'll consider it. I used to be pretty virulently against wearing the colour at all, but I've mellowed out a bit. With my colouring though, it doesn't really suit me for clothes - I'm really pale with freckles so it can look a bit silly on me. I've had a few pink gadgets over the years - my first mobile phone, 9 years ago, was a garish Barbie pink shade, and I've had a pink Game Boy Micro and a pink iPod mini.

I love blue, purple, red and black though, and all of them look a lot better on me than pink does.

GirlInterrupted

Crumble Froo wrote: »

i have to admit to spending a lot of time looking somewhat down on the girls who would flock to pink, just the usual brainwashed, cant think for themselves crap. anyone who'd spend the extra money to buy the same appliance , but in the colour pink.... man, they saw those chicks coming...

I never realised that a fondness for pink = stupidity.

MrsMcSteamy

I don't wear pink, but i do have a pink pashmina i like to wear to brighten up an outfit. Oh and i have a guess hot pink wallet that i fell in love with the minute i seen it but apart from those 2 things i don't have any pink items.

Scarinae

I like pink. It is a colour that suits me - along with purple, green, blue, pinky red, black, brown, navy, deep grey etc (in other words, I avoid yellow, orange, and pale colours)

However, I would not buy something just because it is pink. I went to buy a camera a month or so ago, and the guy in the shop kept recommending me cameras simply because they were pink - "This is a very popular one!" - I found this quite patronising actually, like he assumed I wouldn't want to know the actual specs of the cameras in question but would just buy them because of their colour. Yes, I am a college-age girl with blonde hair, but I'm not stupid

jellie

i went through a phase of LOVING pink. everything i owned at one stage was pink - ipod, phone, bag, wallet, etc etc.

i have calmed down a bit now, im more drawn to purple these days i do still have a pink phone though (& a pink wallet)

Tawny

I have no problem with the colour per se. I even own some items that are pink.

However, I HATE the way manufacturers think women want everything in pink, and its getting to the stage where you can't buy anything aimed at women specifically that isnt pink.

Two interesting takes on PINK -->

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/02/im_in_the_marke

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/10/the_problem_wit

Cows Go µ

I went through a pink phase until was about 6 or 7 then I refused to wear or have anything pink. I went from being a complete girly girl to being a tomboy practically overnight. Apparently it was really sudden and mum had no idea why it happened. Recently I have become more accepting of the colour, I won't go out of my way to get pink but I won't not buy something just because it's pink.

Scarinae

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

I never realised that a fondness for pink = stupidity.

I wouldn't say a fondness for pink means stupidity at all, I mean I love pink, it is a great colour. However, it does annoy me the way you can make anything pink, especially electronic items, and girls are expected to choose it over others - like I was saying in my post above about the camera salesman. It must work on some level or there wouldn't be so many pink versions of things aimed at women, and sometimes the perception is that women will buy anything pink no matter what the quality.
However, despite my love of pink, I feel like deliberately choosing non-pink items just to show that I can think for myself - weird, eh? Take my laptop for example - at the time I bought it, Dell were throwing in colour customisation for free, but I kinda felt like getting a pink laptop would make me look like a bimbo. So I bought a midnight blue one. But really there is no reason why I shouldn't have a pink one if I want a pink one

Gauge

Crumble Froo wrote: »

i have to admit to spending a lot of time looking somewhat down on the girls who would flock to pink, just the usual brainwashed, cant think for themselves crap.

I have to admit, I'm extremely surprised to hear something like this from you.

Edit: Ah, saw your post below. Disregard!

Crumble Froo

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

I never realised that a fondness for pink = stupidity.

gyah, no, that's not what i mean! >_<

i admit, that i did think in that general direction, as i saw otherwise intelligent girls melting over something pink and refusing to wear other colours, and just going generally gaga over it. just seemed like a huge marketing ploy that they'd fallen hook line and sinker for. and i pretty much categorised all pink lovers as that.

which i freely admit now, was WRONG. just my perspective at the time. im older and wiser now

GirlInterrupted

Fishie wrote: »

However, it does annoy me the way you can make anything pink, especially electronic items, and girls are expected to choose it over others - like I was saying in my post above about the camera salesman. It must work on some level or there wouldn't be so many pink versions of things aimed at women, and sometimes the perception is that women will buy anything pink no matter what the quality.
However, despite my love of pink, I feel like deliberately choosing non-pink items just to show that I can think for myself - weird, eh? Take my laptop for example - at the time I bought it, Dell were throwing in colour customisation for free, but I kinda felt like getting a pink laptop would make me look like a bimbo. So I bought a midnight blue one. But really there is no reason why I shouldn't have a pink one if I want a pink one

You see I think this is where we play to others perceptions of what women should like, as opposed to what we do.

Some people will go out of their way to avoid pink because they hate being gender-targetted in such a way, and thats fine.

Some people - for some reason I've noticed its mostly other women - will avoid pink because they feel its an overly feminine colour, something only airheads would prefer.

Some people are comfortable with pink, like the colour, and avoid it because they don't want others to apply the above assumptions to them. And thats fine too.

I like pink, and I'm secure enough about it and myself to indulge it a little.

Its far more damaging to assume someone is brainless and easily led, not to mention more sexist to do so, than it is to simply like what is just another colour.

Crumble Froo

Gauge wrote: »

I have to admit, I'm extremely surprised to hear something like this from you.

nooo, godammit, i've just tied my own noose, haven't i?

this opinion was largely based on my school days, and certain people i went to school with, who, after falling in with a certain crowd (the 'girly' ones), suddenly went from ... i dunno... just a non-descript taste in clothes/colours (o neill's trackys, nice tshirts, whatever it was we were wearing), to being *obsessed* with the colour pink. another mate became mates with this group of girls her ma later dubbed 'the pinkifieds', and that kinda enhanced my opinion there, particularly as i watched certain tastes and opinions of hers change.

and i finished the whole school thing about 4years ago, and have come a long way in my thinking since then.

i really really didn't mean to offend there...was just saying that my thoughts had been anti-pink...

but im a lot more mellow and less judgemental and did i mention more mellow nowadays?

Scarinae

While I'd like to say that I avoid some pink items because I object to the marketing, if I am being honest with myself I would say that some of it is not wanting to be perceived as a bimbo - I already have blonde hair and wear a lot of pink and purple, so I feel like having a pink laptop etc would be a bit 'Elle Woods from Legally Blonde' (although I suppose you could say the message in that film was that first impressions are not always correct)

I do have some objections to the advertising though, it has got insane in the last few years! I babysit for a seven-year-old girl, her mother has told me before how difficult it is to get stuff like coats and dressing gowns for her that AREN'T pink.

Those links that Tawny posted are really interesting - the first one talks about the marketing of pink products at women, and the article contains links to sites that specifically sell pink laptops or whatever. You can even get a cherry scented laptop! :eek:

Crumble Froo

Fishie wrote: »

I do have some objections to the advertising though, it has got insane in the last few years! I babysit for a seven-year-old girl, her mother has told me before how difficult it is to get stuff like coats and dressing gowns for her that AREN'T pink.

i do agree strongly on that point now. like i said, my previous aversions to the colour are more a past thing, i even own boardies with pink on them now (granted, they also have tentacles and skulls, which makes them sufficiently cool enough for me to wear comfortably :P ), but it is just about impossible to dress a baby girl (without spending ridiculous amounts, usually online) without putting her in pink or purple. the marketing is waaaaaay OTT.

allabouteve

If something is pink and I want it, I'll buy it.
I don't give a crap what anyone else thinks, or what their assumptions are.

Nevyn

Personally I dont like pink or pink tech or how pink is used lazily to brand and market items to women or that young girls are going up feeling they are less of a girl if they don't choose the pink option.

I don't understand the obession with it tbh, or how people pay more for one in pink
but in all fairness if I could have the spec I wanted and had to pay a little more for
what I want in black I prolly would.

Lockstep

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

I like to think that the roots of my pink love are in being the only girl in the family. The more pink an item was, the less likely it was to be 'borrowed' by one of my brothers.

I think your onto something there.

In my extended family, if the girl was surrounded by boys, she seems more likely to be pink orientated.

rain on

I looove pink, especially really bright pink. Pale shades not so much. It doesn't really go with my general style so I keep it to a minimum; I have a bright pink scarf that I'm practically surgically attached to, and the soles of my shoes are pink, but apart from that you wouldn't see much pink on me.

Bright pink is definitely my favourite colour though.

jellie

if something is branded pink & i buy the pink version its not cause its "marketed cleverly" its cause i like it in pink.

it may often be because if its a choice of black & pink ill go with pink cause its prettier than the black.

for example, external hard drives. theyre usually boring black things. id be just as excited about seeing one in yellow as i would in pink. yet if i buy the pink one ill probably be seen as a stupid fool of a girl who fell for the girly marketing.

in saying that - i wouldnt pay any extra for something just cause it was pink.

fonpokno

I'm not a fan of pink. I don't really care about stuff but for clothes I won't touch pink red or orange. I don't like those colours and they don't suit me anyway!

Mind you, I'll buy anything green at all. I'd buy a green brick just because it's green. I'm a little obsessed.

Pythia

Love pink, have a pink phone and ipod and a lot of pink clothes and accessories. I have a few lovely bright pink blushes and lipsticks too. I can think of a lot worse crimes than liking pink.

Thaedydal

Thaedydal wrote: »

Personally I dont like pink or pink tech or how pink is used lazily to brand and market items to women or that young girls are going up feeling they are less of a girl if they don't choose the pink option.

I don't understand the obession with it tbh, or how people pay more for one in pink
but in all fairness if I could have the spec I wanted and had to pay a little more for
what I want in black I prolly would.

Nice sig you got there.

I don't really care.
My favourite colours are blue and green anyway.

monkeyfudge

Yes.

Nevyn

Deleted User wrote: »

Nice sig you got there.

Why thank you, it was chosen to stand out against all the standard most used
boards.ie skins and due to my pretty well documented dislike of the colour
the person who made it for me was being ironic.

I care enough about the issue to have pink in my sig :P

banshee_bones

meh... hadnt really thought about it til now... have the odd pink item that i love, a hot pink dress, a pashmina that i love, a dark-hot-pink top.. small enough things but im not overly attracted to the colour id be more of a blues/blacks/purple kinda girl

monkeyfudge

Why is it so hard to get a bag of plain white marshmallows?

Why is it always 50% pink ones? I can't eat the pink ones at all.

Pink French Fancies are my favourite ones though... go figure!

Orla K

It's the one colour I HATE. I did see someone dressed in a pink tracksuit with pink ugg boots, I laughed and so did a lot of other people where as she thought she was great.

Saying that I do have pink underwear but it's not my good kind, it's the kind I wear when I'm getting cramps. I also have a pink phone which my brother bought me, he knows my dislike of pink told me he was sorry(only pinks ones left in the shop) before he gave it to me, luckily I don't use phones as a fashion accessory.

jellie

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Why is it so hard to get a bag of plain white marshmallows?

Why is it always 50% pink ones? I can't eat the pink ones at all.

what! youre crazy! the pink 1s are the best! & theres never enough pink ones!
(of them princess marshmallows anyway, and theyre the best 1s, wouldnt be bothered with any others)

monkeyfudge

sar84 wrote: »

what! youre crazy! the pink 1s are the best! & theres never enough pink ones!
(of them princess marshmallows anyway, and theyre the best 1s, wouldnt be bothered with any others)

Okay. We should totally share a bag of marshmallows some time!

beks101

I'd never wear pink when I'm having a fat day. Have seen too many bigger ladies wearing pink trackie bottoms with 'sexy' scribbled across the ass to be cool with that. Pink elephant springs to mind.

I don't mind it in small doses. Nothing fuschia or radioactively pink is ever a safe option in my opinion, unless you're a teenager and wearing the pink eyeshadow and glittery eyeliner to match or you're Paris Hilton.
Meh, both unforgiveable, come to think of it.

jellie

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Okay. We should totally share a bag of marshmallows some time!

hmm i dunno if thats enough marshmallows.. a bag each & swap the colours

Quality

I love pink. I bought a gorgeous pink flourescent top last week. I have a pink Juicy Couture bag. My camera is Pink. Quite a bit of pink in the wardrobe.

Also Mr Quality has a pink helmet I am very fond of.

rain on

Quality wrote: »

Also Mr Quality has a pink helmet I am very fond of.

I bet he does! Wha?


sorry, I couldn't let that one go

LadyE

I used to hate pink - now I love love love it. Because of the colour not because Im a girl as its "expected".

Id buy a pink phone over a say....blue phone purely because its my favourite colour..if my favourite colour was blue Id get the blue one..I do agree with the whole 'marketing aimed at women' tho. Guess it works

mental07

Not a massive fan of it I have to say, though I've become more tolerant of it as I've gotten older. I now own a pink blanket and a pink pair of slippers :eek: Anyone that's known me since I was a kid would probably be shocked at this

I'll definitely never be into pink gadgets (iPod, phone), though.

Remember though - pink makes the boys wink

shellyboo

beks101 wrote: »

I'd never wear pink when I'm having a fat day. Have seen too many bigger ladies wearing pink trackie bottoms with 'sexy' scribbled across the ass to be cool with that. Pink elephant springs to mind.

I was going to report this, but I'm more sad than offended tbh. Beks, that's really, really horrible. Kind of thing I'd expect to see in AH, not here. I don't even know where to start. Pink elephant?? Nice, real nice.

Some of the narrow-mindedness in this thread is astonishing. Why would you laugh at someone who was wearing all pink just because they were wearing all pink? Would you laugh at someone who was wearing all black or all white? It's just a colour.

Peared

Yeah I have stuff that's pink.

If you ask me I think the girls that say "Oh my god no way would I ever have anything pink in a million yeeeeears, its so giiiiiirllleeeyyy" are the ones that feel that they have something to prove.

It's the anti girl thing. The scared of being judged thing. The caring what idiots think thing. And the fear of being thought 'girly'. Interesting that in this thread some of the girls who are kick ass take no **** cool chickers are the ones that are shrugging and saying yeah I have pink stuff, so what? (I include myself in this obv)

Nevyn

shellyboo wrote: »

Would you laugh at someone who was wearing all black

Some people do.

shellyboo

Thaedydal wrote: »

Some people do.

Some people are idiots

I wear all black more or less every day to my work... and I don't think I've ever been laughed at for it.

I get what you mean, that those who may dress 'alternatively' or exclusively in all black all the time may get laughed at, but is that not because of the kind of person they're perceived to be because of their clothes? And is that not utterly idiotic?

So why is it any different to laugh at someone for wearing all pink, or yellow, or brown or grey, or or or or or... Is it ok to look down on someone for wearing *that* but not ok to look down on someone wearing *this*??

Playground stuff, tbh. Like bullying someone cos they don't have the "right" brand of runners. Pink is pink is pink. What does it say about a person? Maybe nothing, maybe everything... I just fail to see why it matters.

beks101

shellyboo wrote: »

I was going to report this, but I'm more sad than offended tbh. Beks, that's really, really horrible. Kind of thing I'd expect to see in AH, not here. I don't even know where to start. Pink elephant?? Nice, real nice.

OK point taken, I definitely phrased that insensitively.

What I meant was it doesn't suit MY figure when I'm on the chubby side.

Maybe coz I'm five foot nothing and it makes me look like a blimp. That's just my personal opinion, but I do have photos of me in a glow-in-the-dark pink cocktail dress and a lot of Christmas weight that clearly illustrate this...
It's not exactly the most subtle of colours and draws attention to EVERYTHING, which isn't what I tend to want when I'm up a few pounds/stone.

Apologies about the pink elephant part. Definitely uncalled for.

Nevyn

Because people like pigeon holing others and making assumptions, usually so they can feel superior, which mean that normally they feel inferior and are insecure.

Which is pretty much the same converstaion I had with both my kids after various people
made rude personal remarks about each of us over the course of the evening.

CorkLady1983

yes, love pink, unfortunately though....barbieness can follow........:D

Orla K

shellyboo wrote: »

Some of the narrow-mindedness in this thread is astonishing. Why would you laugh at someone who was wearing all pink just because they were wearing all pink? Would you laugh at someone who was wearing all black or all white? It's just a colour.

In my tread I said I laughed at someone with a pink tracksuit and ugg boots, half the reason for laughing was all the pink the other half was that it was clear that all the items she was wearing were new, by the looks of it was trying to impress someone and failing.

I would also laugh if someone wore the same out fit in any other colour. A side note of that is I was walking two puppies down by the river, they got a little dirty nothing to bad(these are tiny dogs too) there was two girls talking to a group lads one of the girls was wearing all white. The smallest of the two jumped at her to get attention as we were going by, she screamed her head off and almost jumped on one of the guys. All I could do was laugh, all the lads could do was laugh where as she and her friend gave me a dirty look. I do laugh at people wearing other colour clothes but the are doing something else that I would laugh at.

shellyboo

Orla K wrote: »

I would also laugh if someone wore the same out fit in any other colour.

Ok, that's not really any better. Why is it ok to judge someone based on what they're wearing at all??

Crumble Froo

shellyboo wrote: »

Ok, that's not really any better. Why is it ok to judge someone based on what they're wearing at all??

simple fact is, clothes make a statement about you, whether you like it or not, and people do make judgements based on it.

especially when you're dressed a bit 'differently'. be that dressed casually at a more formal setting, dressed formally in a casual setting, dressed 'unusually' for your age or gender, wearing colours, slogans, designs that make some sort of statement.

subtly or not, people do make snap judgements.

i know i used to absolutely dread 'no uniform' days at school, cos i was the only girl in my year that was likely to come in dressed in all/mostly dark colours, and baggy jeans etc, and i'd always get the piss ripped out of me for it. totally immature yeah, and most of those people at this stage have grown up and gotten over it. but people do still make that tiny snap judgement in their heads, though the more mature they are, the less they'll tend to make anything of it.

shoulda seen the jaws drop as i walked through the pub when i went out with my freshly shaved, shiny head. everywhere i went that night, i was followed by jawdrops and pointing and whispering.
people judge appearances. simple as.