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Date: 16 October 2007 16:54:45
I suggest that lovers of the colour pink should not read on. You may be inordiantely upset by the following rant.
For those who do not know, I am far from 'girly'. I had a pram for a while as a kid, which I used to push my Kermit the Frog puppet in on the few times that I used it. Warped? Perhaps. The thing is, I find pink hard enough to accept on wee kiddies, let alone associated with grown women. Imagine how overjoyed I was when the team at work (all female) were issued with shocking pink diaries for next year! Ack! I get on well enough with the admin lass to jokingly challenge her about this. She said it was about 'girl power' (since when do I need the help of pink to be powerful?) so I asked her if she had ordered powder blue diaries for the guys. She replied that she had. I am not entirely sure that I believe her, but the idea of equal-opps-irritating-diaries somehow makes this easier to take. Rather oddly, my diary is beginning to grow on me - a bit like a fungus!
Other pink thoughts involve pink power-tools. One word - WHY? Seriously, am I alone in being insulted by this concept? Surely, if a woman is free enough from gender stereotypes to be happy to wield an electric drill, then is she really going to be worried about it being a nice, functional colour like black or grey? Me, I do not trust myself with the things (being pretty ham-fisted, not cos I is a woman!) but, if I were to want to buy one, IT WOULD NOT BE PASTEL PINK!
To quote a friend of mine, " I do not do PINK!"
Am off now to stare at something refreshingly deep purple or rich green...