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April 2018 – As early as 1918, it was fashionable for little boys to wear pink and little girls to wear blue. In the 1940s it switched. In 2018, using either to denote gender is patently offensive, at least at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Williams students were recently asked to report as a “bias incident” anyone “displaying a color-coded sign, pink for girls and blue for boys.”
The theory goes that such “microaggresions” can negatively impact students’ educational experiences.
However, writing for reason.com, Robby Soave says research by Emory University clinical psychologist Scott Lilienfeld found little evidence of such a connection between microaggressions and physical trauma. And when the Cato Institute polled minority students about whether various microaggressions offended them, most said they do not.
onenewsnow.com, 2/1/18; reason.com, 1/16/18