jude77
Orange looks very interesting. I'd try that. Thanks for all the work you're doing on these themes.
I find this breakdown kind of interesting: As part of a recent study on gender norms, University of Maryland sociologist Philip Cohen asked nearly 2,000 men and women a simple question: "What's your favorite color?" Blue turned out to be most popular across the board, followed by green for men and purple for women. The color preferences break down as follows:
Cohen cautioned that he did not survey a random sample of the population, but rather a "convenience sample" of students, faculty and staff at his university, as well as people who heard about the study through social media and link sharing. "However, when I controlled statistically for age, race/ethnicity, education level and student status, the gender pattern was basically unchanged, so that helps increase confidence that the result is not too heavily skewed by who I sampled," Cohen told Life's Little Mysteries.
Now, why Cohen included pink, I have no idea; it's not its own color at all (that is, a primary, secondary, or even tertiary color), but is simply red mixed with white. Granted, we don't call pink "light red" the way we call blue mixed with white "light blue", but it simply doesn't stand on its own the same way the primary, secondary, or tertiary colors do, e.g., you won't find it on a color wheel (there are color wheels that extend to tertiary colors). Perhaps, being a sociologist, he included it because of its cultural value: baby girls get pink clothes traditionally. If that's not the reason, I've got no clue. Now you know why I've asked the question. I do find it somewhat surprising to find purple as high on the poll as it is. I'd have thought it about fourth rather than second (for women) and third (for men). Blue and green are exactly where I thought they'd be. I thought red would be rated essentially in purple's place. And despite Cohen's viewing of the color, I absolutely refuse to do a pink theme. Yecchh.