'A blue ribbon on the boy and a pink on the girl, French fashion, so you can always tell."
'A blue ribbon on the boy and a pink on the girl, French fashion, so you can always tell."
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There is nothing gender neutral about the colour pink. Louisa May Alcott, whose novel Little Women contains the quote above, knew that in the 1860s. Blue for boys and pink for girls, that's just the way it goes.
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