# The color PINK equal oppertunity for all?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-color-pink-equal-oppertunity-for-all/611655>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 3, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-color-pink-equal-oppertunity-for-all/611655 "2012-02-03T15:57:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![The\_Lady\_Within](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@The\_Lady\_Within](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lady_Within)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-color-pink-equal-oppertunity-for-all/611655/1 "2012-02-03T15:57:07Z")

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Is Pink only for women? And what is your favorite color:D

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-color-pink-equal-oppertunity-for-all/611655/2 "2012-02-03T16:15:22Z")

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On women? Pink.

On me? My favorite work shirt is fuscia. It tends to draw a lot of positive comments.

I once read that pink used to be a masculine color, and that men wore it all the time. Baby boys wore pink, baby girls wore blue. I think that reveresed itself around a century ago.

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-color-pink-equal-oppertunity-for-all/611655/3 "2012-02-03T17:19:41Z")

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Since this is a duplicate, I’m closing this one.  
Other thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=640773).