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I Hate Pink

May 7th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Confessions, Soap Box · Email This Email This · Print This Print This

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Art by Lissa Rankin at Owning Pink.

As a young girl, I was forced to wear pink.

I had pink receiving blankets, pink hair accessories, pink ballet clothes and pink dresses.

Just by being a girl, everyone assumed I liked pink.

WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!

I HATE PINK!

I’d rather play with Tonka trucks in the mud than with Barbie dolls smothered in pink puffs of satin.

Making a tomboy wear pink is child abuse. End of story.

Had I know about Social Services as a young girl, I would have called them for sure. Now purple, well, that’s another story.

I adore purple!

Pink dress and Marlo Thomas hair blackmail photograph.

(I hated the top half of this dress, loved the bottom)

Mauve, dusty rose – whatev, it’s all pink to me

My mother loves pink. I don’t hate pink because she loves it, but because she covered and smothered and pasted everything in the house with it.

We had pink carpets, pink drapes, pink furniture, pink bath towels, pink Christmas decorations & baubles, pink linens and on and on. She claims the color was “dusty rose” but it is all pink to me.

As I look around my house, I see the beautiful absence of pink, save my roommates Coach hand-bag trimmed in pink.

My paintings and photos on display are pink-less (I hide all the photos of me in pink, like the one below).

I am in the back row of this photo looking miserable, bored and humiliated.Calgon, take me away!

I have no pink clothes, pink underwear, pink bras, pink hair accessories or even pink post-it notes.

I don’t eat pink food, candy or sip pink drinks (unless you count cosmos).

Whew! I feel better getting that out.

How do YOU feel about pink?

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12 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Gravatarmaggie // Aug 15, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    Love it Eth – I’ve already bookmarked this site :)
    Love from LgMarge

  • 2 GravatarPop // Aug 15, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    You were all pink, the moment I laid eyes on you – and you were beautiful! (Still are.)
    BTW, I was wearing pink scrubs in the delivery room, which could be the reason for your prejudice.

  • 3 GravatarSuzanne // Aug 17, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Interestingly…my daughter has begun to rebuff pink in favor of purple, as well. It may be my fault, as after having had two boys, I may have over done the pink just a tad when she was little.

    Interesting our relationships with colors, eh? My bedroom is a beautiful sage green, but until just a couple years ago, you couldn’t have convinced me that was a color with any redeeming value, at all. Weird how that works.

  • 4 GravatarAnn Marie // Sep 12, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    I LOVE PINK!!!! :)

  • 5 GravatarMerry SiTSmas, Christa-mas and Ho Ho Ho | Giggle On! // Dec 3, 2008 at 12:02 am

    [...] ARGH! I told you my mom had a thing for pink.  [...]

  • 6 GravatarLaspes in Memory, Hiccups in Concentation: Brain Farts | Giggle On! // Dec 10, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    [...] Yes, purple thongs. Any more [...]

  • 7 GravatarBeth from the Funny Farm // Dec 10, 2008 at 7:16 pm

    Growing up, I wore the color DRAB (thank you, Mama!) well. Now that I an adult, I EXULT IN PINK!

    But not pink everything. I’d of gagged on your home too, from the sounds of it. No need to blind yourself with the color!

    =) Beth

    =)

    Beth from the Funny Farms last blog post..Saturday Night- I froze.

  • 8 GravatarChrista // Dec 10, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    Exactly my sentiments Beth – no need to smother the house. Thanks girl!

  • 9 GravatarLuke // Dec 22, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    As a guy, I really have no problem with pink and the tradtional femine connotations that go along with it. I’d wear a pink shirt, but it would have to be a comfortable, well fitting shirt that I like. It can’t just be pink! I do however, see pink as a rather poor excuse for a color. It wants with all it’s heart be red when it grows up, but just can’t compete. Blue is where it’s at for me.

  • 10 GravatarLuke // Dec 22, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    Also, purple on darker skinned ladies really works for me!

  • 11 Gravatartorrie // Jan 11, 2011 at 7:21 pm

    I don’t like pink. It is okay but I am a tomboy I like blues and black cuz if you get it dirty it doesn’t look as bad.

  • 12 GravatarChrista // Jan 16, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    @Torrie – I’m with you girl, been a tomboy my whole life. Black and blue ROCKS! :-D

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