While once upon a time pink was considered a masculine hue, in the 20th century it came to symbolise “sugar and spice and all things nice”; a colour designated to females by a male-dominated society, pastel pale and diluted. It is only in very recent years that manufacturers of toys and kids clothes have been coerced into making childhood accoutrements more gender-neutral in tone, steering parents away from imposing pre-ordained, gender-specific expectations on their child –…
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