What’s remarkable is he and/or she thinks it’s admirable that they’re just-so stories! The thesis itself, that science needs a healthy diet of imagination to stimulate hypothesis-formation is all well and good. But then he blathers on about how women must have evolved a spotty history with orgasms in order to test men’s fitness or something like that and you just want to go lie down on train tracks.

Two other random (i.e. no citation) factoids about pink: it was once the preferred color for boys, at least in England, because the British Army wore red, and the diminutive of red is pink. The other being research in the 1960s suggesting that exposure to pink environments (paint in jail holding cells, lighting during a radio station publicity stunt) tends to make adults erratic, depressed, and prone to angry outbursts. Above and beyond what you’d expect either in jail or at a radio station I mean.

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In my town, we have a theatre built in the 1890s and the original parlours were pink for the men and blue for the women.

Guess I'm saying social cnstructs around gender roles are unhelpful, but it's ok to like pink anyway, and colour-preference can be constructed in all sorts of ways.

I link pink, but if I wore a pink shirt, I'd look like a city trader ina wine-bar. Maybe that's just me being classist.

Will do so in future.

Hate pink here, but really, you should know better than to use terms like that.