Originally Posted by mordwyr

Pink is a man's color, gayboy. It is associated with red, and red has historically been associated with masculinity. It wasn't until an ad campaign in WWII that it changed to a woman's color. Women were traditionally associated with blue because it is a calm color, not wild like red (or pink).

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.