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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Gray_Bat on 2023-08-05 04:30:01.
I really love the color pink.
I grew up socialized to hate the color pink, though. There were shirts that my family would buy that would denounce the color pink with slogans like, “This girl doesn’t wear pink, she wears camo”. I wasn’t allowed (didn’t feel comfortable) to explore my femininity or to want “girly” things because when I did I would be harped at and made fun of excessively. Needless to say, I grew up in a “tomboy” fashion. I picked up male dominated hobbies because I craved the male validation from my father and the other men because to be associated with pink a.k.a. a woman, was intolerable. I tried gymnastics - which I loved - but it did not receive the same love and support from my father, so I soon quit.
I was raised to hate my own gender. In return I hated myself. I feel as if my growth has been stunted because I have to work through my own self hatred before I begin to enjoy stereotypical “girly” things.
It’s cheesy, but movies like Legally Blonde and the recent Barbie movie promoting such a positive acceptance of the color pink is so healing to me. With that being said, I love watching the videos and seeing pictures of women dressing in their all-pink attire to see the Barbie movie. This is something I would have been appalled by back then.
To me, wearing pink is accepting who I am and being a feminist.