But mom I HATE pink!

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http://www.livescience.com/34105-favorite-colors.html

After reading and commenting on another classmate's post, I decided to write my newest post on the idea that women LOVE PINK! I am a woman who, in all of my years of living, has never liked the color pink. It was just something about that color that rubbed me the wrong way. It is intriguing that changing the color of something to pink may change the representation of that particular thing from masculine to feminine. There are however, a few men who do wear pink without any feminine feeling about it. I for one believe those very men are so comfortable and confident in their masculinity that a small statement such as wearing the color pink does not at all define who they are. But, it almost seems as though a woman cannot go out and purchase very many items that are not pink or do not come in pink. For example, breast cancer awareness symbols are all pink. Now mainly women get breast cancer but there have been some instances that men have also been diagnosed with breast cancer. Never the less, we are able to determine that breast cancer is a predominately female illness. But why must the color pink represent the awareness of breast cancer when pink is also meant to represent a presumably "weaker" portion of society? Yet we use this same color to represent the birth of little girls, cosmetics, flowers, etc. Even the woman emojis on our smart phones and tablets are wearing pink. There are new ear buds for women that are pink and state they are "softer, smaller and more comfortable" for women as if a woman's ear is that much more sensitive than a man's. The color pink and the representation of women has gotten pretty ridiculous over the years. The baby section is a store is pink for little girls but blue, green, orange, gray, red, black and even white for little boys. Are women to wear no other color? What does this instill in a young girl as she's growing up? Are we telling little boys that pink is only for females while telling little girls that the only color for a female is pink? To be sexually fair, either gender should have either one color they may have or one color they may not have not one having all but one while the other has none except one. The ultimate sexual fairness would be that colors are kept unisex as they were when they were created. Pink is what represent women but who is determining this? Because a survey taken among our very own Maryland women shows that these same women favor purple over any color followed by blue for second place. In many different surveyed states, women prefer blue over pink. So why are we still pushing pink onto women when statistics and surveys have proven that pink is not a favorite among them? Must pink represent us because it's a softer looking color? Are we the women who bare children time and time again weaker than the men who are free during those same nine months it took to make them? 

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