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Pink is not just for girls. If you went back in time to just before World War II (the 1939-1945 war) and found a girl wearing pink then that girl would have been thought of as dressing butch. For most of history pink was the boys colour (because it's an offshoot of angry red) and blue was the girls colour (because it was thought to be calming and serene). People of that age would have had problems with boys wearing blue and girls wearing pink. In the war (WWII) the Nazi German government issued pink triangles to homosexual men in concentration camps to indicate that they liked the same sex, that is boys (pink). This negative association lasted past WWII and so today we have blue for boys and pink for girls. Because we let what the Nazi's thought about people influence how we saw pink!! Personally, I fight against this every day. I have pink underwear, socks, shirts, trousers, etc... I've never had anyone say anything negative to me (perhaps because I'm 6'6" and 250+ lbs and VERY fit!) other than women who have always been complementative. So, the short answer is, pink is not a girls colour and only worn today as one because of the Nazis.

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