Why is pink a female colour and blue a male one

Question

babies clothes for example

Answer 1

Don't know really, but in the world of Budgies the male has a blue ceres (nose hole protruberance) and the female has a pale pinkish one.   I doubt this is the reason in the human world.

Answer 2

Interesting question!  I had always thought the colours came from tradition, but this recently came out that may shed some light on the issue:

Answer 3

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 4

Soocialisation.  We are told from no age that certain colours are linked to certain genders.

This particular type of colour coding is pretty recent.  It began in the late Victorian era but is wasn't until the mid 20th century that pink was uniformly a feminine colour.

One theory I've read is that the n**i's marked g*y men with a pink Triangle in their concentration camps, then after WWII it became the norm.

There is absolutely no historical proof that this colour association existed before the Victorians.