Pink

In Western culture, the practice of assigning pink to an individual gender began in the 1920s.













From then until the 1940s, pink was considered appropriate for boys because being related to red it was the more masculine and decided color, while blue was considered appropriate for girls because it was the more delicate and dainty color, or related to the Virgin Mary. Since the 1940s, the societal norm apparently inverted so that pink became appropriate for girls and blue appropriate for boys, a practice that has continued into the 21st century.




















Pink is a sister color of red, but they are very different in terms of symbolism. It is a tranquilizing color.














"Drunk tank pink," is used to calm violent prisoners in jails. Dr. Alexander Schauss, Ph.D., director of the American Institute for Biosocial Research in Tacoma Washington, was the first to report the suppression of angry, antagonistic, and anxiety ridden behavior among prisoners.















Pink is said to symbolize spring, gratitude, appreciation, admiration, sympathy, socialism, femininity, health, love, romance, June, marriage, joy, flirtatiousness, innocence and child-like features.














In Nazi Germany, homosexuals were forced to wear a pink triangle.Today, the pink triangle is often worn with pride. Too right. "Pink Money" refers to the financial power of the LGBT community.




















In Japan the color is associated with a woman's vagina, and therefore, in Japan, softcore porn flicks are called "Pink Movies".



















Most flamingo species are pink in color due to pink pigments in their diet.




















The so-called 'White Elephant' is revered in several countries in Southeast Asia and is naturally pink.

'Seeing Pink Elephants' is a euphemism for hallucinations caused by delerium tremens . The concept was used in the Disney's animated film Dumbo when the title character accidentally becomes drunk and sees a parade of pink elephants.

In Thailand, pink is associated with Tuesday on the Thai Solar Calandar. Anyone may wear pink on Tuesdays, and anyone born on a Tuesday may adopt pink as their color.

When one gets laid off or fired from one's job, in the , it is called getting a 'Pink Slip'. The same term is also applied to Automobile title.

"In the Pink" is an English idiomatic expression for in good condition or in good health. "Tickled Pink" :To be delighted. The origins of the phrase is it's the figurative sense of the word 'pink' that means 'to give pleasure or gratify'. The tickling pink concept is of enjoyment great enough to make the recipient glow with pleasure or to blush.

Pink, being a 'watered-down' red, is sometimes used in a derogatory way to describe a person with mild communist or socialist beliefs (Pinko).

"Pink Noise" also known as 1/f noise, is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency.

One colour....many connotations.

For the purposes of this blog, 'Pink' should be regarded as something we identify with primarily as 'feminine' that clearly represents so much more beneath the surface.

What is at first perceived as delicate...can also be very productive.