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Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is widespread in our young girls" lives. It is not that pink inherently (内在地) bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly blends girls" identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among two—year—olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the extreme lack of imagination about girls" lives and interests.Girls" attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it"s not. Children were not colour—coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. What"s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender—neutral dresses. When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a delicate version of red, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations (暗示) of the Virgin Mary (圣母玛利亚), constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity (女性化). It was not until the mid—1980s, when enlarged age and sex differences became a dominant children"s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.I had not realized how profoundly marketing trends influenced our perception of what is natural to relatives, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Taking the toddler as an example, I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children"s behaviour: wrong. It turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularized as a marketing gimmick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.Trade publications counseled (劝告) department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a "third stepping stone" between infant wear and older kids" clothes. It was only after "toddler" (学步的小孩) became common shoppers" term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults, into ever—tinier categories has proved a safe way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to cut up a market is to magnify gender differences—or invent them where they did not previously exist.By saying "it is ... the rainbow" (line 3, Para 1), the author means pink .

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