Boys Who Like the Color Pink

I work in a daycare and I used to help teach in the classroom with the 2 and 3 year old children. In one section of the room, there is a little makeup table and a bunch of princess dresses and dress up shoes where the kids can pretend to be princesses. There was a little boy in my room who always wanted to put on the fluffiest princess dress and walk around in high heels. Not because he wanted to look like a girl, but because a majority of the other kids in the room are girls and that's what they were all doing.

I don't personally think that there is anything wrong with a boy wanting to wear a dress or even enjoying the color pink or purple. I found this video on YouTube about a boy who considers himself to be a princess and he really enjoys wearing dresses, sparkly clothes, and loves the colors pink and red. This would not have been a news story on NBC if everything in society wasn't so gendered.

I also remember an episode in season 3 from the show The Office where a woman had just had a baby and she brought her child into work one day. The baby was wearing pink from head to toe and Pam goes up to the mother and is gushing about how cute the little girl is. The mother interrupts Pam and says that her baby is actually a boy and that his favorite color is pink. Pam doesn't say much else before she walks away because she is embarrassed that she made such a mistake.

Going back to the boy at my daycare that likes to dress up in princess outfits...everytime his father came to pick him up and he was wearing a dress, he got really upset about it. He would always give his son "the talk" consisting of the fact that his son is on team blue and that team blue is so much better than team pink. So I guess that answers my question about where all of the insecurities boy have about liking the color pink come from. I personally think that pink is a nice color on a guy and that some guys should wear it more often.