I remember a few years ago a huge kerfuffle amongst the feminist left of how girls should be advertised to in stores. These feminists noted that there was little in any kind of crossover toys for young ones: boys would get toy bulldozers, girls would get some sort of doll, or toy cookware. It was insulting to girls, some said, that girls were relegated to cooking and child rearing even at an early age.Did anyone ask the girls? hen there were those primary colors: for girls everything was pink or purple. Even the Easy Bake Oven was pink. Hardly a color anyone would choose for a kitchen appliance. Did anyone ask?

I was recently walking through a department store, just past the children’s section, when I noticed an awful lot of what I considered pink clothing on racks and shelves. Not that it was overwhelming, but it seems that in the decade or so since the “Pink and Purple” wars, the there was at least a much of those colors as before. Could it be that girls just happen to like pink, and purple? I had a girlfriend a few years ago that was stuck on the color red: not so much for clothing as for almost everything else. If there were red countertop appliances (toaster, coffee maker, etc.) she had it. Red accents everywhere in her home. I guess it was okay. When I think abut it now, other than the kitchen appliances, it wasn’t that noticeable. Or maybe I just became used to it

IT may be that girls just happen to like certain colors over others. Boys probably do as well. If I look in my closet, I find a lot of blue, green, tan, mixtures in my shirts, along with yellow, and (whoops!), salmon(pink?). I don’t think parents push their children toward any one color or the other. IT really doesn’t explain why girls are drawn to pink, but I’m not here to psycoanalyze the pink preference, but to just say that girls seem to prefer it over, say brown, or blue.

I don’t think young women, applying to colleges or universities, will have a problem is they happen to wear pink socks their first day on campus. It doesn’t mean she can’t be a physicist, or a doctor. It just means she likes pink. Oh, and “Barbie” is the number one movie in the world this week. I wonder who’s been to see this atrocity in pink?