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Reply	Brant Goose says: A recent study showing that the skin tone of women leans towards green, while men tend towards red, suggests to me that women (or at least mothers) are unconsciously adopting colours that flatter, enhance and draw attention to faces, through subtle contrast, while men may prefer blue business suits and blue shirts for the same reason.  (no votes) Tags: animals, human body.
	posted on 2009-03-20 01:54:00 | Report abuse

Reply	Anonymous says: aside from a couple of comments that are actually referencing some "objective" traits of likes/dislikes to the colour pink, most comments here are basically equivalent to "i like pink and so..", making inferances based on it. unless there is some genetic or otherwise fundamental reason for liking pink, this is all (obviously) a social-bias-self-reinforcing-thing. yes? yes? as in commercial enterprises thinking "pink is a girl colour [for whatever historical reason], so we colour all our girl things pink" and then girls buy pink things because that's basically what they can choose from and pink becomes the "girl colour" etc etc etc. also, on top of this fundamental (and all-important) layer, there are all the secondary mechanisms like "pink=girly, i wanna be girly so i choose pink".  (no votes) Tags: animals, human body.
	posted on 2009-03-20 02:29:00 | Report abuse

Reply	Frummy frummer says: I have twin fraternal eight year old daughters and they're still very drawn to pink. I resisted buying pink till they were almost four but gave in after the nagging for pink made me cave. Thereafter, everything just had to be pink. It was not just clothes but shoes, backpacks and toys. If it isn't pink then purple follows as a second choice.  (no votes) Tags: animals, human body.
	posted on 2009-03-20 07:57:00 | Report abuse

Reply	Gretta Pecl says: We had a very similar experience to Frummy Frummer with our eldest daughter - we made a deliberate point of dressing her in a wide range of colours from birth but to no avail. As soon as she was old enough to voice her opinion (around 18 months) it was pink, pink, and pink. We had many red, blue, green etc clothes that went completely unworn and so after a while we just went along with it - after all our point of offering her all colours was so that she was not 'brainwashed' into conforming to others expectations. Our second daughter (18 months younger) is not as obsessed with pink but I suspect that is because she refuses to wear anything worn by her older sister (i.e. pink hand-me downs)!  (no votes) Tags: animals, human body.
	posted on 2009-03-20 13:10:00 | Report abuse

Reply	Anonymous says: When I worked in south Korea a few years ago, I noticed some young boys were wearing pink, when I asked a friend about it he said that pink was not traditionally exclusively associated with females. He said that western influences to the society have caused the emergence of its association with girls. I saw a lot of young men wearing pink and pastels [shirts, ties, t-shirts] I believe it is fashionable. Personally I would say that it’s a cultural issue than some inexplicable genetic magnetism.  (no votes) Tags: animals, human body.
	posted on 2009-03-20 16:51:00 | Report abuse

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