PINKSTINKS

[Jade]

BBC HOMEPAGE

Campaign to get away from the pink and fluffy girls brainwash

Capitalism at its gendertorn best

Would you campaign? Is pink really so bad?

[sinistral]

Now I seem to remember a thread on this subject some long while ago.
Was it on the Beeb.....or one of the late lamented boards torpedoed by........

well,whoever.

Anyone recall?

[Jade]

I bet it comes up a LOT

ever since it was pink for boys and blue for girls, one has no doubt

[marchesarosa]

Little girls are swamped with pink these days. It's fairly recent. It is overdone.

It is a severe limitation of choice. If I were a young mum, knowing what I know now I would ban it for my girl children, I think. Pink is OK for candyfloss and peppermint rock but that's about it.

[iamspecial]

Princess Smartypants rules

That the antidote to pink that I buy my neices
I refuse to buy any of them pink anything

[aubrey]

I get them what they want. Sometimes Pink Princess stuff. Sometimes High School Musical (and I still get offers of that from Amazon, from last year. It's pretty good - "You may be interested in, High School Musical, The Fall etc").

[marchesarosa]

When I was a little girl and went to the Birthday parties of other little girls, I admired the fluffy angorra( rabbit wool, we called it) boleros they wore, their silver and gold sandals and the organdie and net frocks they often wore.

My mum sent me along in cotton frocks and white buckskin sandals. It NEVER occurred to me to demand the same glamorous stuff for myself. It was a different world. Thank goodness. I think I would have been a different person if my parents had conformed to the behaviour of other parents. Is it really a good idea to give youngsters "what they want", Aubrey?

Children are encouraged to be such competitive "consumers" these days. But mums don't HAVE TO concede.

[aubrey]

For christmas, yes. I think she'd be better off with a Fall album, but she wants High School Musical. (I once gave her a Residents Album, but she didn't care for it.)

[Jade]

I cannot possibly contemplate having the conversation with a beloved child as to why a certain colour, the one all her friends adore and which she too feels drawn to, is wrong

I may berate the prducers of pinkcrap for not provising alternatives but they have (rightly) told me that if others sold as much they would be as plenty

[marchesarosa]

I cannot possibly contemplate...

I can. I would explain to her about individualism and originality and not following the heard.

[Jade]

Awww at 5??

Bless

Mine would have nodded sagely and in her head be naming her newest "My Little Pony" and wondering if red jam was sweeter than custard

[marchesarosa]

You can't start too young, jade. Remember the Jesuits - give me a child till he is seven and I will give you the man.

This applies to girls, too, by the way. I blame the mothers.

[Jade]

have you ever met a lad worked on by the Jesuits?

*shudders*

[aubrey]

By the way - I didn't give her the Residents' album for her birthday. This was a spontaneous gift. But she still didn't like it. Could anybody say why not?

[aubrey]

(Sorry. But I think there's worse things than pink. And they usually grow out of it.)