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Blue is Boy, Pink is Girl
When I was born, they put a blue onesie on me and decided I’d be a boy—aggressive, into cars, tough, no crying. My sister got pink. That meant she'd be gentle, dance around in frilly dresses, and play with dolls. Before we could even speak, they handed us our scripts. Blue for boys. Pink for girls. Give me a break.
You know what punk taught me first? Smash the system’s molds. The day I dyed my hair green, my dad frowned, my mom said, “I don’t recognize you anymore.” I told them, “For the first time, I’m showing you who I really am.” I wanted to choose my own colors, wear what I felt like, feel what I felt—no filters, no rules. But the world? Still clinging to its ancient color code. Blue for boys, pink for girls.
Blue is supposed to mean strength, masculinity, war. But why? Who decided that? If a kid wears blue, does that mean he's doomed to toy guns and emotional silence? Pink is sweetness, softness, submission. So what—if a girl rejects pink, she’s “confused”? This nonsense raised us. Then one day we found noise, street walls, loud guitars, and truth. Punk was a middle finger to all these fake-ass norms.
I’m punk. I live to burn down labels and rebuild meaning from ash. Color? Just dye on cloth. But people use it like it’s scripture. I wear a pink shirt and suddenly I’m “feminine.” Maybe I just liked the shade that day. My sister wears a black jacket and people say she’s “rebellious,” just because she doesn’t want to look like bubblegum. Maybe black makes her feel safe.
In this twisted logic, pink on a man is rebellion. But real rebellion is tearing down this tired system of blue-and-pink thinking altogether. They handed us two colors. We painted with all of them. We found ourselves in black, green, purple, red—in tones that speak emotion, not gender. Color should express mood, not box in identity. Clothes should talk personality, not assign roles.
Blue is not male. Pink is not female.
Punk doesn’t play by those rules.
Punk knows itself.
And I’ve been screaming against this color-coded lie since I could breathe.
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KARISIK_Videokaset
I get your point, and I am going to approach it scientifically, proving your point. In 1940's cloth sellers wanted to sell more dresses. And that's why they implemented the idea of "pink is for girls". So, it's cause is capitalism.
And the "Brain Games" conducted a social experiment about this topic. It was about a boy who lost his hat, and he was searching for it with his mom. And here's the twist, the boy's is pink and glittery, so it's hard to be unnoticed. But when his mom asked the people if they had seen his son's hat, they said no. Because they thought the pink hat wasn't the boy's hat.
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xX N0SWA1TH Xx
YESYESYESYESSSS AND A HUNDRED YESSES MORE!!!!! I HATE THIS STUPID SYSTEM!!!! If I want to dress like a guy one day, I'll do that. I'll be as masculine or as feminine as i want. My brother is already questioning this and I'm so proud of them for it.
That being said, it shouldn't be something that makes me feel prifwyl. They should be able to question their gender identity and like the colours they want without being judged, without being bullied for being a 'feminine guy'.
I love the Alternative community for this, you guys are awesome <3
Also I'm fairly sure that the reason pink was started to be used for girls is because of H1 tler. He apparently forced gay men to have pink patches on their clothes so single them out, like the Je ws...
So they started dressing girls in pink, and suddenly only effeminate men were gay. Its so sad that this stereotype is still around today =(
Fu ck the system so hard (not literally, they don't deserve that)
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Also I'm fairly sure that the reason pink was started to be used for girls is because of H1 tler. He apparently forced gay men to have pink patches on their clothes so single them out, like the Je ws...
So they started dressing girls in pink, and suddenly only effeminate men were gay. Its so sad that this stereotype is still around today =(
Fu ck the system so hard (not literally, they don't deserve that)
by xX N0SWA1TH Xx; ; Report
Also I'm fairly sure that the reason pink was started to be used for girls is because of H i t l e r. He apparently forced gay men to have pink patches on their clothes so single them out, like the Je ws...
So they started dressing girls in pink, and suddenly only effeminate men were gay. Its so sad that this stereotype is still around today =(
Fu ck the system so hard (not literally, they don't deserve that)
by xX N0SWA1TH Xx; ; Report
0nyx >_<
im a guy who is going to wear a hand made dress (im working on) to a fancy dinner. why? because im gonna have fun and i wanna feel pretty weither i be a boy or girl? and ykw blue use to be FOR GIRLS because it was a soft color like the sky or the ocean and pink was FOR BOYS because it was a loud bright out standing color 3
🏝️𝘾𝙃𝙄𝘾𝙊𝙊💥
One day I wanna rock a pink sundress and the other I wanna dress like a lonely teen who's never left his computer, it doesn't change who I am it's just cloth adorning my body :)
EddieTheFiend115138
Holy Poser, Batman!
☆∼ oyasu
funnily enough pink was the most virile color a man could wear back in the 1700s or something lmao
KARISIK_Videokaset
If you want to know and see where I get these informations, here's the link (I actually watched this episode waaaay back then, the years when National Geographic aired the "Brain Games"): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x44eghf
catduck
That is true. Whilst there are differences by males and females naturally occurring many differences are man made in some way. Pink wasn't always a colour associated with women. I searched it up just then to check if what I mentioned was true and I found that apparently a previous President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt wore a dress when he was 2. And apparently that was normal at the time. So that shows how these concepts are made up. And that is where gender comes in, gender in the modern day is different from sex as it is all the made up stuff. And a lot of people think these various made up ideas are as factual as the sun and not as factual as feudalism. You can disagree on how you think gender should be in this world without being a villain. You don't have to agree on how people should be expected by society to express themselves. But you should be able to say what you think without people just writing you off as crazy. But I guess I should just say what I want. I hope one day both man and woman shall be freed from the many made up rules that limit us for little good reason. They should be able to enjoy the hobbies they enjoy, and wear what they want without having to change anything else about themselves, just because the system thinks they should. And at this point in time I feel as if progress towards this goal has been halted; all of the legalities are there for that change in many places, so now it's just up to changing people's perception. But even then I think most people now days want to live in a world like that, and its just the vocal minorities who want to cling on to these outdated ideas, and force them into education. I think these vocal minorities are on both the left and the right. Which is fine as I think everyone should be able to have their opinion, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with it. Also I think that finding who you are is a life long journey, and people can, and most likely will change. And can even become an almost completely different person, with widely different beliefs compared to what they used to believe in.