I’m sure you’ve all seen it around you at some stage, but different genders of humans, especially during childhood, are given different colours… Usually blue for boys, pink for girls. But why? No one in my family, and none of my friends can answer…
-Davo
Because people want everyone else to know the sex of their child. It is hard to tell a boy from a girl infant. If you see him wearing blue, you can say “AWWWWW, he is so cute! What’s his name? How old is he?” Instead of “UGHHH, It is a nice baby you have there. What is its name? How old is it?”
I remember reading on one of my hubby’s sociology books about an experiment that they did with babies and the color of their dress.
They dressed girl babies in blue and boys in pink, and watched the interactions of people with the babies. The “boys” were handled more roughly than the “girls.” With the “boy” babies, people gently punched the babies on the shoulders, ruffled their hair, tossed them around, and played with them a little more roughly. The “girls” were cooed over, petted and caressed, and were handled tenderly as if they were more fragile than the “boys.” Babies that were dressed in unisex colors were approached with uncertainty, and researchers found that people were a little less interested in them when their sex was not clearly “defined” from the outset. Sexual conditioning starts in the cradle. We condition girls to be “softer” creatures than males almost from the moment of birth, and conditon boys to be tougher.
see an earlier thread what’s so girly about pink?
I once heard (during my genealogy work) that it used to be that pink was for baby boys and blue was for baby girls. I don’t recall the time frame.