I wonder who or what has been giving you the impression that you weren’t supposed to like pink. Not to say that there aren’t folks who give that impression, but generally I’ve heard that as a strawman position.

It’s not like anyone has ever said to me, “You shouldn’t like pink,” but rather it’s a colour that in this day and age represents All Things Girly. And when I was younger, I completely bought into the male-normative mindset that “feminine = bad and masculine = good”.

Not to mention that there is a subtle reinforcement of this — or at least that femininity and masculinity are like oil and water and don’t mix — every time someone expresses shock that I, as a non-feminine person, would like the colour pink.

it wasn’t the actual color that I had an issue with (though my personal preferences run to cool greens and blues), but the infantilization and/or gender coding that pink usually represents.

Which is actually exactly what I’m objecting to, except from the other side of things. My willingness to embrace the colour pink is a rejection of the infantalization aspect as well as the premise behind the gender coding. Yes, I am female, but at the same time I’m not feminine and I reject the idea that one can only like pink if one is feminine.

Sour Duck:

Are you a reader of Kameron Hurley (blog: Brutal Women)? I think she’s gone to Wiscon in the past, if I were going I’d definitely try and catch her if she’s on a panel, or chat with her in the hall.

I’m not a regular reader, though I do drop by occasionally. I’m sure I’ll find all sorts of people I know of online there to chat with bwahaha :D

Have fun! Blog about it here if you can/are willing.

I will do my best! ^^

Are you a reader of Kameron Hurley (blog: Brutal Women)? I think she’s gone to Wiscon in the past, if I were going I’d definitely try and catch her if she’s on a panel, or chat with her in the hall.

Have fun! Blog about it here if you can/are willing.

Anytime I’ve ever had something to say about pink, it wasn’t the actual color that I had an issue with (though my personal preferences run to cool greens and blues), but the infantilization and/or gender coding that pink usually represents. For instance, console and accessory manufacturers decide that the reason women aren’t buying their products is that there isn’t a pink one, instead of problems like massive controllers making the console hard for smaller hands to use. Or, in the case of baby showers, people incessantly stating that a girlchild cannot recieve any powder blue gifts, a boychild cannot recieve any baby pink gifts, for fear of the space-time continuum collapsing in on itself.

earlbecke: If you can, definitely look me up! I’d love to be able to meet you in person. ^_^