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“African American students were disciplined at greater rates than their peers in the last school year, according to an annual Austin district report. Rates decreased slightly among African American students for in-school and home suspensions, and discreti
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“Indeed I see unions at the crux of a huge spectrum of progressive issues, from immigration to healthcare to sustainable development. I believe that the mortal weakness of unions in the US is one of the fundemental causes of many of our social ills”
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Riiiiiiiiiiight. “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.”
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“Last weekend, hundreds of people from around the country who share the Chinese surname “Lee” gathered in Los Angeles’ Chinatown to celebrate the 19th national convention of the Lee Family Assn”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
roamingknowmad wrote:
Omigod, I’m a girl who HATED pink for the longest time. When my sister and I were kids, my grandmother color-coded all our gifts- from nightgowns to toys. My sister’s fave color was blue, and mine was red. But since most of the frilly stuff she gave us didn’t come in red, I always got pink! I was scarred for life. I avoided any shade of pink/fuschia/rose/blush until I was in my mid-twenties. Those researchers are full of hooey. End rant.
Posted 23 Aug 2007 at 11:19 am ¶
gatamala wrote:
my favorite color is purple, what does that say about me & my gender identity issues???
What about the parents who are silent on the issue and end up w/ seafoam green baby gifts???? Horror!!!
Posted 23 Aug 2007 at 12:03 pm ¶
Anon wrote:
“Researchers said these differences may have a basis in evolution in which females developed a preference for reddish colors associated with riper fruit and [b]healthier faces[b/].”
I’m not sure but something tells me the majority of the participants in the study were white. I’m just throwing that out there.
Posted 23 Aug 2007 at 1:02 pm ¶
Rob Schmidt wrote:
Note that Carmen is wearing pink in her official photo for Racialicious. What does that tell us?
Posted 23 Aug 2007 at 2:19 pm ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Rob - LOL! Clearly I’ve been brainwashed effectively by my family.
Posted 23 Aug 2007 at 2:29 pm ¶
Rob Schmidt wrote:
Actually, all the study says is that adult women gravitate toward pink. The hypothesis that this preference has “a basis in evolution in which females developed a preference for reddish colors associated with riper fruit and healthier faces” is bogus. Adult (American) women gravitate toward pink because they’re trained to like pink since infancy. It’s a learned behavior that has nothing to do with nature.
I bet the pink fetish doesn’t hold for non-Western cultures. I also bet it doesn’t hold over time (e.g., girls’ toys found in archaeological digs probably aren’t pink). In fact, an article last year said the pink fetish arose in the 20th century with the advent of television and mass advertising. Before then, women didn’t prefer pink.
Posted 23 Aug 2007 at 2:31 pm ¶
Ailurophile wrote:
I’ll have to dig up the cites, but before about the 1920’s, it was BLUE for girls and PINK for…boys. Blue was thought to be soft and gentle, while pink was strong and masculine.
Stephen Jay Gould called most of evolutionary psychology nothing more than “just so stories” and he was right. This would be lolarious if it wasn’t potentially so damaging, cloaked as it is in the garb of “science.”
Posted 25 Aug 2007 at 11:47 am ¶
Yolanda Carrington wrote:
Gendered color preference is rooted in biology??? That stupid hypothesis wouldn’t pass a fourth-grade science test. I can’t believe Reuters actually reported this horseshit with a straight face.
Aye, eugenics and junk science are alive and well.
Posted 27 Aug 2007 at 11:33 pm ¶