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As you can see, girls tend to lean towards pink until age 5-7. Probably because girls start not wanting to be a \u201cgirly girl\u201d and start thinking that being more feminine is a bad thing. By this age, children are exposed to sitcoms, TV, and the internet. On TV, there is usually that one girl who is very traditionally feminine and is portrayed as mean, manipulative, she is obsessed with her appearance, boy crazy and more importantly, loves and wears pink. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We see this very clearly in the\u201cNot Like Other Girls\u201d (NLOG) meme. In this meme, there is one very feminine girl on one side with bullet points saying all of her \u201cbad\u201d qualities (i.e. revealing clothes, cares about appearance too much, likes pop music, obsessed with boys, dumb, mean, pink) and on the other side, a less feminine girl with her contradicting \u201cgood\u201d qualities (i.e. modest clothing, doesn\u2019t care about appearance, hates pop music\/likes rock music, doesn\u2019t care about boys, smart, hates pink). This pushes the idea having more masculine traits is better than having more feminine ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hearing or seeing this phrase can be extremely harmful and degrading since it reduces \u201cother girls\u201d to dumb, mean, pink loving, and boy-obsessed.\u00a0 If you are not those things, you are cool and special. But this is not how the world works. You can\u2019t lump an entire group of people into one category based on a stereotype. Everyone has different likes, dislikes, interests and style and no one is an exact carbon copy of someone else. In the grand scheme of things, we are all human and deserve to be able to present ourselves in a way that makes us feel confident, comfortable, and accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n