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The insidious apartheid of thinking pink : Comments

By Monica Dux, published 23/11/2010

There something disquieting about the sheer ubiquity of the pinkification of our girls.

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Dane:”TPP, anti and Co,
I've never seen your type of callousness on OLO before. Are you women's studies graduates?”

You should read more I’ve seen Anti be heaps more callous. :P

And you my little hypocrite; you should never have mentioned any current tragedy in this thread and certainly not one that affected people who would consider this thread a bloody joke.
Posted by The Pied Piper, Friday, 26 November 2010 7:00:26 AM
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Dane:"TPP, anti and Co,
I've never seen your type of callousness on OLO before. Are you women's studies graduates"

Yay! I've found a new type of callous. I wonder if it can be made in pink?

Dane, there is a thread about the miners. I agree with you that their deaths were sad and I agree with your point about the relative seriousness of being prepared to die on the job and being concerned about buying the right shade in baby clothes.

OTOH, I see no reason to be maudlin about it. I'll leave that to Monica, who can cry into her Chardy (not Rose, no,no,no) all she likes.

TPP:"I’ve seen Anti be heaps more callous."

Aw, ta hon.
Posted by Antiseptic, Friday, 26 November 2010 7:11:17 AM
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Antiseptic and TPP,

I take back what I've said about women being unfunny. You two are hilarious. Anti, anyone who can pull out a double entrentre on a 'chardy' joke is bound to be a hit on the stand up circuit. You can join the other middle aged women who talk about....being a woman (and drinking 'chardy').

People will love it. The condescending and dismissive attitudes towards men will go down a treat on the university circuit.

TPP, university students will especially like it when you tell men what they can or can't mention and then call them a hyprcrite for no apparent reason. Hyprocrite is a big word. They probably won't understand it but they'll assume it's derisory and applaud all the same.
Posted by dane, Friday, 26 November 2010 1:34:20 PM
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dane you really need to have a bit better look at Antiseptic's posting history (although your description of her is probably causing a few accidents around the place with coffee and keyboards).

Now we just need runner to join in attacking Anti over her strong feminist stance and possible role in the gender studies department at some university to top it off.

It's posts like that last one of your which make OLO such a hoot at times.

R0bert
Posted by R0bert, Friday, 26 November 2010 1:38:54 PM
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Haw, haw , haw!

Antiseptic is a women's studies student! Now I geddit, Anti's a lezzo spurned by her hairy arm pitted, docs wearing girly friend who took Anti's fave Harley and tooled up the freeway to Sydney.

I don't see where pink fits into any of this - but thanks to Monica for the entertaining thread.

BTW what is it with extremely wealthy men wearing pink cashmere sweaters? Just a thought.
Posted by Johnny Rotten, Friday, 26 November 2010 2:22:45 PM
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Every culture has traditional colors - different colors for different occasions.

Pink generally represents love and romance.

Blue generally represents Calm, loyalty and harmony.

Take from that what you will.

Personally I have always disliked pink, but do love to see little girls dressed in cute "pink" tones.

My daughter was never the "pink" frilly type of little girl - she loved mixing it up with her older and younger brother.

It doesnt appear to have affected her sense of self.

I agree with the posters who say that "sexualising" our little ones is far more detrimental than the actual "color" they wear.

Dressing little girls and boys like miniture adults.

Children are no longer allowed to be children.
Posted by searching, Saturday, 27 November 2010 8:31:55 AM
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