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In praise of - pink.

It seems that everything is imbued with extra meaning these days.

At least that's what we're led to believe. Take pink – it's just a colour, surely? Apparently not, according to some.

For them pink is a mechanism of gender control: a means by which to segregate children on the basis of the masculine (blue) and the feminine (pink).