Interesting Article

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/16/gender-facts-traditional-roles_n_5115265.html

This article mentions a lot of things that we associate today as being "feminine" or "for girls", but apparently they were quite the opposite long ago.

One of the first things mentioned was the colors we associate with the sexes.  Everybody today seems to "know" that pink is for girls and blue is for boys.  Apparently it used to be the opposite.  The article mentions that almost 100 years ago, it was decided that pink was a strong color, and therefore should be linked to boys.  It was apparently also decided that blue was prettier and would be better associated with girls.  I'm not sure exactly when that was flipped to what we know today, but I find the rationale behind the color assignments quite fascinating.  I think today we sort of just accept that pink is for girls and blue is for boys, and I don't think as much attention is paid to why those colors may have been assigned the way they were.  Perhaps we are moving toward more acceptance of what it is to be a particular gender versus thinking of genders by the generalized limitations society imposed on them so long ago.