It’s something I don’t see a reason for, and thought I was doing a good job of not teaching it with my little ones, but my 5-year-old recently organized her markers into a girl’s cup and a boy’s cup based on whether they’re “girl colors” or “boy colors”.
I took her to my closet and showed her papa’s shirts of all kinds of colors, and took her to her closet where she has all kinds of colors for everything.
So she patiently explained to me that some colors are boy colors and some are girl colors. Boys can wear girl colors and girls can wear boy colors, but that doesn’t change anything. Some colors are just better for girls and she likes most of those colors, but I can use them if I want to.
I mean, I guess that’s accurate in a 5-year-old type of way. The whole palette is open for anyone, but some colors will still be recognized as traditionally male or female.
I’ll accept that for now, but I hope she’ll explain it to me more completely when I get older.~