Pink Means Feminine: Difference between revisions

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[[File:pink aurora princess 1290.jpg|link=Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|frame|Beauty like a rose, adorned in rosy pink.]]

 

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 ==

* ''[[Wedding Peach]]'' has the color appearing in several places, from the weapons to [[Transformation Sequence]]s (and that's not even taking Momoko's [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|hair]] into account).

* 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 ==

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

* Cindy, Chris and Cathy's very girly adopted daughter in the [[V. C. Andrews|Dollanganger]] series, notes that "I love pink, really adore pink," and has a bathroom decorated in pink with gold and green accents.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** 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 ==

** 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).

* This is true for Myari of ''[[Ears for Elves]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20141102055748/http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/610 along with hearts, swirls, flowers, and possibly a butterfly].<ref>Elon just wrote an essay.</ref>

 

== Web Original ==

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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 ==

* 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 ==