Comments on: The Horror of the Insidious “Pink Plague”

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:28:44 +0000

#26, Contempt,

Aren’t you the guy who accidentally washed your white underwear with a red T-Shirt in hot water? I bet your husband liked the result.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:24:57 +0000

Solution: Hand out Pantone color swatch books to ten thousand three to ten year olds and ask them to pick their favorite colors.

Since tastes may change by age, adjust fashion and accessory colors over age to reflect changing tastes.

Now all our children will be average.

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:58:20 +0000

#31 Only Tinky Winky looked gay in that show?

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:39:39 +0000

And remember: purple is gay! (Just ask Tinky Winky.)

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:02:27 +0000

#29 Bobbo,

Parents make sure their little girls don’t have sex in high school so that they can get all the sex they can in College.

By: bobbo

bobbo — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:19:05 +0000

It “sounds like” most young girls like mostly pink? Nothing wrong with that. Offer a choice when it is available. I’d be as surprised this caused any harm/twist at all as I would be that contempt could make check in two moves.

In a very real sense, parents should leave their kids alone. That would be the area between supporting their own choices and protecting them from real harm. Course, if you did that, you’d be raising a whole bunch of cute little atheists, but – - – - If you are upset about pink, wait until they start dating.

By: pedro

pedro — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:54:10 +0000

#19 Unfortunately, nowadays this stupidity is pushed in front of kids way before they’re capable to deal with it. Gotta love modern, PC society.

#23 One thing is to have a choice and another is to ban a color altogether.

By: Bud

Bud — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:58:27 +0000

At least Disney Princess Roster includes Snow White, who has not been pink pantherized. Push the wicked stepsister and stepmother angles more, and read them Hansel and Gretel about the parents that could not afford them so sent them out to be eaten by a witch.

By: contempt

contempt — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:55:47 +0000

#23 comhcinc
>>speaking as a parent of a young girl i would like her to have more choices other than pink.

Yes, pink is a hideous color and should only be used on the inside walls of a prison or the place bobbo calls home.

By: leftbankhook

leftbankhook — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:50:33 +0000

As someone with a 2.5 year old daughter, I can tell you that this IS a concern…even though I wouldn’t have put it that way. My daughter would be happy with ANYTHING pink over any other color. I mean pink paper would be preferable over a toy of any other color.

…and don’t get me started with the Disney stuff!!! That’s another LEVEL of indoctrination. I’m going to have some very specific requests about appropriate gifts for her 3rd birthday.

By: comhcinc

comhcinc — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:38:55 +0000

#21

maybe individualism isn’t bobbo’s goal i really don’t know his motives. but again speaking as a parent of a young girl i would like her to have more choices other than pink.

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:38:21 +0000

FYI they already are Princesses. Lil’ girls are being conditioned on things like flat chested shemales like Zac Effron are the hottest things on earth and that in a relationship only their opinions count.

By: contempt

contempt — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:26:47 +0000

#19 Bobbo
>>Kiddies can deal with the stupidity you advocate when the time comes, they don’t need to be raised by it.

Bobbo, you are priceless. See how easy it was for me to get you to toss an insult just by disagreeing with you. You prove that individualism is not the goal. It’s your way or my observation is stupid.

Checkmate.

By: bud

bud — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:02:27 +0000

I think there are plenty of parents who think they have a doll, rather than a child, so the pink plague genuinely concerns me. There are too many little girls whose moms have gone into debt entering them into ‘prettiest baby’ and “little miss” contests. This alternate reality that the child is bombarded with has to have some effect on them, not necessarily good.

Let the child pick their own toys, and own contests and activities, and discover life isn’t necessarily a rigged vanity contest or show business.

By: bobbo

bobbo — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:57:44 +0000

#17–contempt==no.

Kiddies should be raised according to their natural interests and desires with “exposure” to social norms and whatnot. To raise the kiddie within some parental social norm is to miss that individuality.

Kiddies can deal with the stupidity you advocate when the time comes, they don’t need to be raised by it.