Post 6: Symbolism

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Not matter who you are, everyone wears some sort of color every day. I personally wear a lot of blue and red as they are my favorite colors. But as you may know some colors are considered "girly and manly." This really only appears in blue and pink. When you attend a gender reveal party, the color pink is used for females, and the color blue is used for males. Has these colors always symbolized their genders assigned to them? According to a CNN article "Pink was not then (mid-1700's) considered a "girls" color... The tint was, in fact, often considered more appropriate for little boys because it was seen as a paler shade or red, which had "masculine" military undertones" (Cerini.) The symbolism for the color pink actually originated from a "masculine" color. Showing how the symbolzem can change over years.

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  1. Matthew TaftFebruary 19, 2022 at 1:00 PM

    Great post and love the actual use of factual information during it. Not only shows us your thoughts, but societies' thoughts throughout a pre existing time to us. Great post!

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