Perfect brief summary. Also for the "Free Willy" crack. I still remember Australians on the Internet laughing about that title.

And IIRC, Drew Carey got way too much mileage out of the Free Willy thing.

I can't make up my mind!

Fabulous choices!

Babies in pink = girls = OK
Babies in blue = boys = OK

.......

OMG! Babies in tan and white are GAY!

that blue for boys and pink for girls was an advertising thing (Hallmark?) made up by a PR firm in the 1920s, I think?

Of course in the 19th century and earlier there were not little boys and little girls, only "babies". That's why, even into the 1920s, both sexes of babies wore dresses...until they are like 6 or 8. Here's one from the 1870's (but the tradition goes back centuries)



Girls usually have their hair parted in the middle and boys on the left... that's how you tell the difference. These are "children" are just "children" (and of course it's easier to change a cloth diaper under a dress instead of pants). In the 19th century, boys get to wear short pants at about 6 or 8.

There were also no "teenagers". At 14 boys get to wear long pants and girls get to wear long skirts.... and are expected to act like adults from then on. I know in the South (but maybe everywhere) on like a plantation, unmarried boys of 14 or over had to move out of the big house into the "Bachelor House" until they were married.

Here's an article that doesn't name Hallmark specifically. But does mention that manufacturers, esp. of kid clothes, pushed the pink/blue thing for a very good reason - if parents had a boy and a girl, they needed to buy 2 sets of new clothes etc. Where they formerly got away with only buying one set, and the younger kid got hand-me-downs regardless of its gender.

Interesting quote in here from a 1918 trade journal, suggesting pink for boys and blue for girls. Because pink is a "stronger" color, being related to red. And blue is "daintier."

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/pink-used-common-color-boys-blue-girls/

I read somewhere that statistically, females like warm colors (red, yellow. orange) and boys like cool colors (blue, purple, green). I wonder if the blue/pink thing has anything to do with it?

Well, water does have a memory.

But I've changed my vote a couple times... may end up voting for #5

They are all so good! As an environmental major, I had to go with "I Wish".



But oh, the puddle!