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117 - Why Do Girls Wear Pink and Boys Wear Blue?

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

History, Comedy, Fact, Facts

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2018

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode is in the form of a question - 'Why Do Girls Wear Pink and Boys Wear Blue?' Well, Matt has a bloody crack at answering this... he goes back to the 1800s to a time before the pink and blue dichotomy, all the way up to modern day, today! US President FDR gets a mention and historian and author Jo Paoletti's research is referenced a lot. It's an interesting time!

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References and further reading:

http://www.thelist.com/32342/real-reasons-behind-blue-boys-pink-girls/

https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/08/pink-wasnt-always-girly/278535/

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141117-the-pink-vs-blue-gender-myth

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1654371,00.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/07/02/boys-wear-pink-revisited/#.WlTNtVRdJE4

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229437155_The_Twentieth_Century_Reversal_of_Pink-Blue_Gender_Coding_A_Scientific_Urban_Legend

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/aug/25/genderissues

http://www.badscience.net/2007/08/pink-pink-pink-pink-pink-moan/

https://www.livescience.com/22037-pink-girls-blue-boys.html

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/pink-used-common-color-boys-blue-girls/

https://people.howstuffworks.com/gender-color.htm


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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Dave here letting you know that a few people have asked if they can still buy tickets to our 400th episode live stream

0:05.9

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0:13.6

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0:21.9

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0:24.4

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0:30.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of DoGoOn. My name is Dave Warner here and I'm here with two of the best birds, Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello. I'm a little rose bud. Oh, I'm a little...

0:53.0

Gary Bud Tingwell. That's not his real name. What's his what's bud Tingwell's first name? Charles.

0:59.2

Charles, fuck. Charles, fuck. Bud Tingwell. Was it Charles? I'm pretty sure. No, that's right. Yes it is. Legendary Australian actor.

1:07.0

I loved bud Tingwell. See what I did there was I panicked and I said whatever the thing I said first was and then I thought of something.

1:13.4

What did you say? 45 degrees of Gary. He says go to word. Go to word. We go to word.

1:19.0

And why wouldn't it be? It's a good go to word. It's no good reason. No good reason.

1:25.0

Why wouldn't be my go to word. Gary the greatest city in the world and also name. It's the big two.

1:33.0

And it's hard to make that big two. It's hard to be both. It is really hard.

1:39.0

It's like how the town of orange is the greatest town and the greatest fruit.

1:45.0

Yes. I thought you were going to say color. I'm like and no, no, no.

1:49.0

Oh, God. No. That actually brings me. Oh, are you going to do some plugs first day or?

1:55.0

No, no. Oh, you're going to get straight to the hip. Yeah. I was going to because that was a real good segue into the hip.

2:01.0

Okay. Well, hold that thought because I do want to tell them that you listeners. Hello.

2:05.0

Hello. That's you. Hello.

2:09.0

Hello. That the Melbourne. The picture. Listeners at home is like.

2:13.0

Me? Yes. You.

2:17.0

Yes, you. I just wanted to tell you that Melbourne Comedy Festival tickets for our live podcast at the end of March, start of April are flying out the door.

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