Question the Wisdom

Jennifer is a New York-based journalist who's simultaneously starting a family with her husband Ron, and an online news publication in her neighborhood. Go ahead, question the wisdom.
Apr 29 '11
(via The Color of Gender | Brain Pickings) I don’t have a problem with the color pink, but I resent how advertisers have perverted it to represent the penultimate in girliness. Growing up, I never wanted to be a princess, and I don’t want to imprint that aspiration on The Boss so early in her life. She can choose that path later on. Or she can just be a major-league pitcher.

(via The Color of Gender | Brain Pickings)

I don’t have a problem with the color pink, but I resent how advertisers have perverted it to represent the penultimate in girliness. Growing up, I never wanted to be a princess, and I don’t want to imprint that aspiration on The Boss so early in her life. She can choose that path later on.

Or she can just be a major-league pitcher.

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