Women really do prefer pink, researchers say

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 2007 Aug 20 | Reuters

[Brujo]

Boys like blue, girls like pink and there isn't much anybody can do about it, researchers said on Monday in one of the first studies to show scientifically that there are gender-based color preferences.

Researchers said these differences may have a basis in evolution in which females developed a preference for reddish colors associated with riper fruit and healthier faces.

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"We speculate that this sex difference arose from sex-specific functional specialization in the evolutionary division of labor," she wrote in Current Biology. "There are biological reasons for liking reddish things."

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"Women have a very clear pattern. It's low in the yellow and green regions and rises to a peak in the purplish to reddish region," she said.

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For men, thinking about colors was less important because as hunters they just needed to spot something dark and shoot it, Hurlbert said.

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[mc5cents]

The term homosexual is considered insulting by some, because it is a sterile clinical term. That term focuses only on certain behavior and not the whole person, so some in that community don’t like that term anymore.

Boo hoo! And I am po'ed with the "Homosexual Community's" usurpation of the word 'gay' which in my dictionary is listed as number 5 under slang.

[Bosco]

Researchers said these differences may have a basis in evolution in which females developed a preference for reddish colors associated with riper fruit and healthier faces.

That describes a red, ripe apple to a T.

Garden of Eden, anyone?

:)

[SaxxonWoods]

Hmmm. This ignores the fact that men like red very much, which is why women wear red lipstick. Red lips make men subconsciously think about other red lip-like things found, um, further down. Those "things" get red when a woman is um, aroused (for those of you [mainly lib men] that can't get a date).

[Brujo]

Um, I was trying to think of a euphemistic way to bring this up but gave up. I think you nailed it.

(Oops, unfortunate phrasing in that last paragraph. ;-)

[Old Professer]

Everybody knows a man will dunk his doughnut in rotten grape juice if that’s the only thing close by.

[Abathar]

Just call them Sodomites, it’s the truth and it drives them crazy too.

[Old Professer]

Then never leave a new shop rag in your pants pocket before you load the washer...

[metmom]

Didn’t feminists say that there are no biological differences between men and women, with the possible exception of between the legs differences?

From the pictures that I've seen of feminists, I can certainly see why they believe that is true.

[Ignatz]

Yeah? And I think it's time we give the word "gay" back to the HAPPY people. The people using it now are the most whiny, miserable, lot-full-of-losers I've ever seen!

[picard]

Pink it was love at first sight
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink it’s like red but not quite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight

Pink as the sheets that we lay on
Pimk is my favorite crayon...

I am a guy, and I Love pink...

[Abathar]

This "thing" will gladly take that shirt off your hands for you.....

[colorado tanker]

Men and women are different? Who knew?

[wolfcreek]

That boy dressed in pink just ain’t right. There’s your sign!

[Brujo]

Great. There goes lunch ...

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

LOL....my little girl (4) says boys that wear pink are pufties. I have no idea where she learned that must be innate.

[eyedigress]

We had wonderful sensitivity training about 15 years ago. Some lady complained of a hostile environment so off to training for everyone. My friend wore one of those shirts to the meeting, it was kinda funny.

[wolfcreek]

Same reason women like purple.

[picard]

"You mean, I'm just a man with mutilated genitals?"

[sam_paine]

I think “fags” or a longer version of that is acceptable, also. Or, wait, do I have that backwards...

No. It's the 'fags' that have things backwards.