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Wink at pink too low to sink Print E-mail
Written by -- Norman Dale
Prince George   
Monday, 06 October 2008
I am sure that sports editor cum poet Jim Swanson, meant no harm with his playful rhyming on a theme of pink (“Cats think pink...” Oct, 4). But often humour is where covert prejudice shows up most clearly. The wink-and-a-nod implicit understanding that Jim assumed we’d all “get” is that the colour pink is emasculating. Pink is seen as symbolic sometimes of the “weaker sex” - you know the tender gender that won the gold medal for Canada at Turin while Gretzky’s hand-picked boy wonders were languishing in seventh place.
Or more worrying perhaps is the connotation pink has when adorning male bodies, that of homosexuality - thus did the Nazis in the Second World War force gay prisoners to wear pink triangles. Yet if Statistics Canada’s estimates are any indication, in all likelihood between five and 10 per cent of those rough and tumble guys that we cheer for on ice are gay to which, I hope the majority of readers and even fans would shrug a big “so what?!”
I would recommend to Jim a very close watching of that wonderful Pixar Short Boundin’ and, in particular the sage jackalope’s versification: “Pink? Pink? Well what’s wrong with pink? It seems you’ve got a pink kink in your think.”
-- Norman Dale
Prince George
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written by pstrickland , October 08, 2008 (04:20:17 PM)
These comments are worthwhile. The subject is often seriously misunderstood.
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