Ahli baru

Insyaallah hari Isnin nih kita akan menyambut kedatangan bulan yang penuh dengan keberkatan, Bulan Ramadhan. Bulan dimana kita bukan sahaja harus menahan nafsu makan tetapi juga menahan jiwa dari di kotori.

Bulan Ramadhan datang dengan cabaran yang besar buat aku, saat ini aku kena bersedia bila2 masa sahaja untuk kedatangan ahli baru dalam keluargaku yang kalau ikut jadualnya pada 16hb nih. Aku harap semuanya akan selamat. Setiap kali sembahyang aku tak lupa berdoa agar semuanya akan berjalan lancar.

Petang tadi aku, sayang dan my little princess pergi shopping untuk membuat persiapan terakhir kedatangan ahli baru dalam keluarga kami. Banyak juga yang kami beli maklumlah bukan semua barang2 my little princess yang boleh digunakan untuk adiknya (dijangka lelaki). Banyak baju2 dan barang2 lain yang kebanyakannya warna biru dan hijau habis diborong oleh kami.

Aku pun tak tahu macamana asalnya sesuatu warna di kaitkan dengan gender tertentu seperti warna pink untuk perempuan dan warna biru untuk lelaki. Yang pastinya aku salah sorang yang telah terbiasa dan terikut2 dengan perkara nih. Aku sempat search google untuk menari artikel berkaitan dan di bawah ni antara artikel2 yang menarik untuk dikongsi bersama.

Why is blue traditionally for boys and pink for girls?

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According to the website "Gender Specific Colors," it would seem that assigning color to gender is mostly a 20th century trait. It would also seem that at one time, the color associations were reversed whencolor first came into use as a gender identifier.

In fact, this reversal of what we consider "normal" was considered conventional, even in the early 20th century.

"At one point pink was considered more of a boy's color, (as awatered-down red, which is a fierce color) and blue was more forgirls. The associate of pink with bold, dramatic red clearly affected its use for boys. An American newspaper in 1914 advised mothers, "If you like the color note on the little one's garments, use pink for the boy and blue for the girl, if you are a follower of convention." [TheSunday Sentinal, March 29, 1914.]

"There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl." [Ladies Home Journal, June, 1918]http://histclo.hispeed.com/gender/color.html - "Gender SpecificColors

"According to Jo B. Paoletti and Carol Kregloh, "The Children'sDepartment," in Claudia Brush Kidwell and Valerie Steele, ed., Men andWomen: Dressing the Part, (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989). -In the United States: "The current pink for girls and blue for boyswasn't uniform until the 1950's.

It would also seem that Nazi Germany had something to do with theassociation of pink with femininity:

"Catholic traditions in Germany and neighboring countries reverse the current color coding, because of the strong association of blue withthe Virgin Mary...the NAZIs in their concentration camps use a pinktriangle to identify homosexuals. (The yellow star of David is thebest known symbol, used of course to identify Jews. The German systemwas quite complicated, using various symbols an colors to identifycriminals, political prisinors, an a whole range of other groups). TheNAZI's choice of pink suggests that it by the 1930s was a color thatin Germany had become associate with girls." - "Gender SpecificColors

"Here is another site backing the same color history.

"The preferred color to dress young boys in was pink!

Blue was reserved for girls as it was considered the paler, more dainty of the two colors, and pink was thought to be the stronger (akin to red). It was not until WWII that the colors were reversed and pink was used forgirls and blue for boys..." - Quote from Dress Maker Magazinehttp://www.dressmaker.com/ezine0200.shtm...

"Jo B. Paoletti concludes that the effect of color-coded genderdifferences (pink for girls, blue for boys) existed oppositelyinitially..." - Quote from book review "The Material Culture ofGender, the Gender of Material Culture" - Winterthur, Del.: HenryFrancis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1997 - From the Journal of AmericanHistory - Please note that this is a cached page as the current pageis different:http://tinyurl.com/iy31

While there are also myths and legends supporting both or either colorfor gender identification, those resources dealing with straighthistory date the identification of pink with femininity to the periodof World War II or later.

Search - googleTerms - color + gender identity, pink +for girls +and blue +for boys -(note, the + signs are used to the google search will include thewords)

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