List of historical sources for pink and blue as gender signifiers
en.wikipedia.org
List of historical sources for pink and blue as gender signifiers
The transition to pink as a sexually differentiating color for girls occurred gradually, through the selective process of the marketplace, in the 1930s and 40s. In the 1920s, some groups had described pink as a masculine color, an equivalent to red, which was considered for men but lighter for boys. But stores nonetheless found that people were... See more
Pink
When a British consortium of science museums analyzed the color of their artifacts over time, they found a similar, steady uptick in black, gray, and white:
Adam Mastroianni • The Decline of Deviance
It’s become a kind of cultural dogma that any resistance to one’s own girlishness must be symptomatic of a deep internalized misogyny — and this idea is often subtly accompanied by the tricky rhetorical trad-ism that girls aren’t worse , just different , and that it shouldn’t be a problem to say so unless you think girl stuff is bad.
Rayne • Resident evil
If the preponderance of the scientific evidence supports the recognition of gender/sex diversity beyond only two kinds, and the inclusion of gender identity in discussions of sex, why would someone argue otherwise? As a social psychologist, I believe the answer is quite simple: prejudice.
Students tend to latch onto her idea of “gender performativity”, because there is a sense in which it is true. Most people have had the experience of playing up their masculinity or femininity in order to conform to sex stereotypes. There is certainly a basic arbitrariness to some of the visible signals of sexual difference in terms of hairstyles
... See more