Pink is for girls

[girlyswot]

So, I like pink. You may have noticed. I always have, though for a while I pretended I didn't because it wasn't cool.

Anyway, despite my predilection for the colour, I do not believe that absolutely everything must always be produced in pink. Least of all, books. So although I very much approved of most of Jacqueline Wilson's choices of top children's books, I was somewhat shocked by the amount of pink and sparkly.

My editions of her choices are:

Ballet Shoes: paperback, sort of beige, I think
A Little Princess: paperback, nasty mustard yellow and black
Little Women: hardback, red
The Railway Children: paperback, orange with photo on the front
The Family from One End Street: salmon pink (this one looks quite similar to the current edition)
What Katy Did: hardback, red
Mary Poppins: hardback, green

Many of these were passed down from my mother. None were chosen by me in a bookshop, as far as I remember. All were (and still are) very much loved. I recently lent my copy of Mary Poppins to a friend who is seven and just starting to enjoy reading 'proper' books. She didn't seem to mind that it wasn't pink either. Because, after all, it's what's inside that counts.

Comments

[alkari.livejournal.com]

I love the sound of your laptop colour scheme, which would be both pretty and stylish.

I am not a "pink" person, and really never have been. Most shades of the colour don't suit me to wear and I could never, ever live with a pink colour scheme in my home. Psychologically, I understand that soft pink rooms are supposed to be a soothing colour for disturbed people, but living in one would actually send me into either a towering rage or deep depression!

I object to the "pink for girls" mentality because it assumes all females have the same tastes, and that there are no women - or little girls- who like or prefer other colours. Why not bright red, a cheerful yellow or rich purple? Why not pretty greens and blues?