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So apparently today was the first time a lot of people on my TL learned what a TERF is, so I’m going to educate y’all on some more queer history, since it’s shockingly unknown. For today, let’s talk about the color pink. 🧵
Before World War II, pink was considered the masculine color. No, really, it was. It was associated with blood, particularly warfare (think bloody rags), and was associated in the west with masculinity, strength and courage. In the late 1800s/early 1900s, a marketing strategy...
...was implemented that encouraged parents to dress their boys in pink and their girls in blue. It was most likely a scheme to get parents to buy multiple sets of children’s clothes, because before that, children’s clothes were usually white and completely gender neutral.
