Hadley Freeman for the Guardian

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For reasons that have always escaped the ken of this column, pink is equated with femininity, an equation that has done neither men nor women any favours. For the latter, it has resulted in the squealing twins on Big Brother, and I shall explain why. Pink is now seized on by annoying females who see "girlishness" as a positive quality and thus destroy it by both overkill and association. This not only removes the colour from the wardrobes of normal women who don't want to be mistaken for total fluffheads, but also rules it out for men. This then exacerbates the problem, as pink becomes more intractably connected to Little Miss Kitty-like behaviour, the aforementioned Kitties continue to wear it, and so on and so forth.
- Hadley Freeman