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When people see a man wearing pink, they think of them as being gay or effeminate. Men wearing pink might be assaulted because of this association. Things are
by fzeroracer 6y ago
When people see a man wearing pink, they think of them as being gay or effeminate. Men wearing pink might be assaulted because of this association.
Things are ultimately not 'just colors' because culture and society inform our reactions to color. That's one of the reasons why they want to avoid the connotations of black = evil because on some level that does tune our bias in a certain way.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI’m sorry, I really do want to try and understand, but I’m just completely lost on how to seriously engage with this argument.
- fzeroracer 6y agoPer my previous comment then, how about 'yellow peril'? Color coding for racist elements has a long and storied history across the world. Nothing exists as simply just a color in many environments because the usage of color matters in context.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI may be misunderstanding the analogy, but I don't get it. "Yellow peril" was developed as an explicit reference to skin color, and I've never seen it used by people who didn't intend that reference. Conversely, I think we'd agree it's pretty silly if someone said that we must rename traffic signals to "gold lights" because "yellow light" isn't simply a color.
- thefounder 6y agoThere is an issue with red as well(i.e see redskin rename debate) so perhaps we should use totally different colours (maybe some blue?)