UK moms protest over pink girl's toys because they think pink toys create a person who prefers beauty to intelligence.
There are a lot of kinds of toys for boys at a toy shop. On the contrary, the kind of toys for girls is limited. I think it is a discrimination between boys and girls. Boys can get many skills by playing with their toys, but almost all girls only have toys such as dolls and they can learn nothing from them. Therefore, a toy shop should have more diverse toys for girls. However, I don't think a shop should have less pink toys. That is because I think even if girls were covered with pink when they are little, they would choose color that they like as they grow up. Pink would not affects on little girls' lives. Colors are not that important in their lives, so they wouldn't make less importance in their brains even if they were covered with pink.
In addition, I disagree with the idea that pink represents beauty so much. Although there is a fact that having pink goods looks cute, other colors can also make girls look cute. Girls do not always have to look beautiful and pink doesn't always make them look beautiful. I think it might be a prejudice that girls better have toys which are pink and that the color "pink" is supposed to cover not boys, but girls.
With the reasons I gave above, I strongly believe that there is no point in protesting against pink.
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I agree, and I think girls might be hard-wired to like bright colours. By the way, there were some good letters in the British neewspaper, 'The Guardian', on this topic. I particularly liked this excerpt:
ReplyDelete"The other day I gave my class of seven- and eight-year-olds bright pink paper to paint on, as an interesting alternative to the usual white. The little boys were very reluctant to use it and one boy actually recoiled as I handed it to him!
Yvonne Newman
Colchester, Essex"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/15/pinkstinks-pink-girls-boys-gender-marketing
Good post Maiko!