Pink Means Feminine: Difference between revisions

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For many modern cultures, the color pink has become the color meaning femininity, in all its forms. This means that the more graceful and elegant a woman is, wearing pink is very likely to be paired with this in fiction. It's also why it's thought girls appreciate pink things more than other colors.

 

Compare [[Long Hair Is Feminine]], [[Woman in White]], [[Lady in Red]], [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]], [[Hair Decorations]], [[All Girls Like Ponies]], [[Pimped-Out Dress]], [[Princess Phase]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* [[Played With]] throughout the ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' franchise: the title character herself, a rather feminine young woman, has pink as the default color of her magic... which she usually uses to deliver [[Defeat Means Friendship|a world of pain to her prospective friends and family]]. Then, we have Signum, a [[Lady of War]] who sports a [[Long Hair Is Feminine|luscious waist-long]] pink hair... and is widely regarded as the [[Even the Girls Want Her|manliest]] character in the series. Lastly, Caro Ru Lushe, whose hair ''and'' magic are pink... is a girly girl (and one of the most obviously heterosexual ones in this [[Les Yay]]-laden franchise, to boot), merrily playing this trope straight.

* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', each girl has a different [[Magical Girl]] costume with its own color scheme that matches with their [[Curtains Match the Window|hair and eyes]]. Naturally, Madoka, easily the nicest and most vulnerable of the main cast, has pink as her main color.

* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the title character usually wears red, white, blue, and yellow in her fuku, however her "aura" color appears to be pink, as whenever she's using an attack, pink is usually her main color. Her bow is also pink in [[Sera Myu|the musicals]] and [[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon|the live-action drama]]. Sailor Chibi Moon's fuku always has pink, not to mention that her hair is pink.

* Ichigo Momomiya/Mew Ichigo, the leader of the Mew Mews from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]''.

 

== Film ==

* Glinda's outfit in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.

* In ''[[Film/Suzie Q|Suzie Q]]'', Suzie wears a pink evening dress, and her mother comments that she finally got her daughter to wear fancy clothes.

 

== Literature ==

* April Devereux from [[Half Moon Investigations]] had a "Pink Club", {{spoiler|which turned out to be a cover for a club determined to get girls a good education and will go to any measure to do so.}}

* In ''[[Paranormalcy]]'' by Kiersten White, [[Action Girl]] protagonist Evie has a rhinestone-studded pink taser named Tasey, wears killer pink boots, and refuses to carry a knife until she is given one that is, you guessed it, pink.

* The books of ''[[Angelina Ballerina]]'', and its cartoon adaptations, put Angelina in a pink tutu.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** Played with in ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]''. The gimmick of copying previous Rangers already mixes up the [[Gendered Outfit]] thing, but in the ''Gavan'' crossover movie, the entire team briefly uses pink Ranger Keys.

** Played with in ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'', where Vida the Pink Ranger is about as un-feminine as you can get.

* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Shindig", Kaylee wears a pink [[Pimped-Out Dress]] as part of her [[Princess for a Day]].

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* In a way [[Natalya Neidheart]] defied this trope whenever she wore pink as it was a reference to her Hart family lineage, whose colours are pink and black. So Nattie never comes across as feminine when she's seen wearing pink ring gear.

* When they have to promote a Diva's match with a graphic, there's always some pink in the background and the text is normally pink as well.

 

== Toys ==

* The body of the original toy release of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Princess Celestia]] in the Hasbro toy line was pink colored and not white as in the show, apparently to appeal to little girls. It was however changed when the bronies complained.

 

== Video Games ==

* Bad Girl of ''[[No More Heroes]]'' wears pink, but given her [[Badass]] nature, this seems to be just to keep up her Sweet Lolita image.

* Vanille's [[Bare Your Midriff|pink top]] in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''.

* Annie in ''[[Wild Guns]]'' wears a pink dress by default.

* Natalie's pink armor in ''[[Radiata Stories]]''.

* Momo Karuizawa in ''[[Rival Schools]]''.

* In addition to [[Princesses Prefer Pink|Peach]], the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series has [[Daddy's Little Villain|Wendy Koopa]] and Toadette.

* Josephine of ''[[Suikoden V]]''.

* Kairi in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''.

** Alisa Bosconovitch's outfit is half pink half blue.

 

* In ''[[Wonderella]]'', Wonderita turns down an offer of a [[Ring of Power]] because [http://nonadventures.com/2011/06/18/we-cant-have-nice-rings/ it's not pink].

* In ''[[Angel Moxie]]'', Alex's [[Mini-Dress of Power]] is primarily pink (with touches of white and light blue).

 

== Web Original ==

* [[Neopets]] changed the Altador Cup team colours of Faerieland from pink and purple to green and purple/pink to symbolise the land's recent landing (it was airborne previously), but also to make it less of a "target group 5-year-girls" team.

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* When [[The Nostalgia Critic]] was writing on his bed like a teenage girl, we saw for the first time that his bedroom has pink curtains.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Pink is a common color for [[Minnie Mouse]] and Daisy Duck of the ''[[Classic Disney Shorts]]''.

* Sarah of ''[[Dinosaucers]]'' wears pink tights.

* Jean in the 90s ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' had a few pink outfits, like a pink evening mini dress, and in the [[Fairy Tale]] episode, her [[Show Within a Show|fictional]] [[Princess]] counterpart wore purple and pink.

* When [[Darkwing Duck]] traveled to an [[Alternate Universe]], Gosalyn's counterpart was [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|feminine compared to the regular Gosalyn's tomboy]], and she wore a pink, frilly dress.

* Clara from ''[[The Nutcracker Prince]]'' has a pink bow and pink [[Pretty in Mink|fur-trimmed]] winter coat.

* Kim in ''[[The Care Bears Movie]]'' has a pink hair bow and sweater.

 

== Real Life ==

* There's an anti-pink campaign run by some people who are sick of girls being "'pinked' to death". [http://pinkstinks.wordpress.com/ Pink Stinks] Here is a [http://www.rousette.org.uk/blog/archives/the-campaign-against-pink/ Synopsis of it].

* An [[Exploited Trope]] use of this is making pink the color for breast cancer research. Although it's not an exclusively female disease, is has helped in getting attention for cancer treatment.

* [[Jayne Mansfield]] loved this color, and had a lot of her house colored pink, and [[Pretty in Mink|even had furs dyed pink]].

 

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[[Category:Characteristic Clothing Colors]]

[[Category:Femininity Tropes]]

[[Category:Pink Is for Tropes]]

[[Category:Always Female]]