Posted on 08/21/2007 11:32:12 AM PDT by 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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I saw plenty of guys wearing those abominations at the preppy university I attended.
(Although, if a color made me bark, I suppose I wouldn't like it very much either. ;-)
Nah, just learn to dance.
I actually went and bought a pink shirt this past year. I don’t care what some might think, I just look good in it. I don’t play with dolls, I don’t paint my nails. I scratch and fart like any other guy. I just do it in my pink shirt...
They act so overtly feminine that it is unreal. They act nothing like a woman. It is like they imitate a caricature of some fantasy of what they think a female is. And they think they are better at being a woman than real women.
(this is because they are still men, and men always think they are better at everything than women. Even when it comes to being a woman.)
Flipping their wrists all around, speaking with a lisp, ever so dainty and quick to scream, obsessed with hair, clothing, decoration, etc. Granted there are some women who are genuinely like that, but come on.
A man is always a man and will always be a man. He will always have the male chromosome no matter if he chops off his Johnson and lisps and simply ‘adooores’ pink.
He cannot not become a woman. He is simply a surgically altered guy with some deep psychological issues.
Sieg Heil!!! All she needs is the mustache.
Lol! You're right, but for the wrong reasons. Female facial makeup correlates very closely with the physiological changes that occur when a woman is sexually aroused:
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It’s all pink or so they say
Why do men have so many hang-ups? Geesh!
I agree. I cringe every time a read a story of a guy doing that - and there's no way back.
You are probably right. However, I still think we owe a debt to the seminal work on such research, to wit:
Bingo. Thanks. Cuz how many males are going to know “down there” the 1st time, anyway!?
Another retarded waste of money on a retarded study with retarded assumptions as to why it is why it is.
The research was done at Newcastle University in the UK, so this time it was probably the British taxpayers who footed the bill for this stunning achievement.
Here's a link to Prof. Hurlbert's home page.
The good professor herself apparently does not share her female subjects' preference for pink, as we can see in her photo:
She seems a bit washed out to me.
Yeah. It’s evolution. Right. Everything is evolution. I like chocolate - must be evolution ... oh, and I like sportscars - must be evolution. I like comfortable shoes - must be evolution. But dang, those high heeled boots are awesome, too -— must be evolution.
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LOL I LOVE your post.
“They act so overtly feminine that it is unreal. They act nothing like a woman. It is like they imitate a caricature of some fantasy of what they think a female is.”
You know, some man who experienced this behavior said this exact same thing!
My husband’s co-worker once worked at a Home Depot or some such. He said he was asked for help by a “couple” and he showed them what they wanted. 1 of the “men” began jumping up and down and clapping just like you describe, screaming out “I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!!!” At which point co-worker just couldn’t help but instinctively laugh! They complained to the manager - who “reprimanded” co-worker in front of them, but told him he really couldn’t blame him for laughing! Co-worker told husband “WOMEN don’t act like that - it’s just WACKO!”
“And they think they are better at being a woman than real women.(this is because they are still men, and men always think they are better at everything than women. Even when it comes to being a woman.)”
LOL!
Why is it that whenever research such as this is released, the “scientist” then have to spin a speculative just-so story to explain the observation in evolutionary terms.
I would bet that the preference is cultural and not hardwired at all.
Women have much finer color recognition. I work with color copiers and similar equipment. If you are a technician and are having trouble getting the color balance on a machine just right do not ask a woman to look at a test copy. You will be there all day.
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