The Bing picture today is the Madrid City Hall lit in pink for International Women's Day. That now seems funny and ironic, given how pink and blue were interchanged colours to represent babies/children over the centuries.
And so it does seem amusing that the celebration of women should come with all kinds of associations.
I find out from a 2017 article that in China, "Little Pink" was a term for cyber-nationalists. This seems a complicated story. We are aware of pink as the colour of Breast Cancer Awareness month, during which people wear a pink ribbon to honour survivors and those who have died of the disease. What about "Pinkwashing?" - a term used to describe practices that appear to promote LGBTQ+ rights or breast cancer awareness to downplay negative aspects of a corporation or political entity. The term "pink tax" is also used to describe the fact that women often pay more for products marketed specifically for women. Did you know that? Go over to the men's shampoo and find it cheaper. Sports teams sometimes paint the opposing team's locker room pink to keep the players passive and less energetic. The Iowa Hawkeyes have a pink visiting team locker room at their Kinnick Stadium conceived by Iowa coach Hayden Fry, who had majored in psychology at Baylor University. He believed that the all-pink room would mess with the minds of the opposing teams.
And there we are with some of the possibilities of pink on International Women's Day.
There are lots of pink lilies. | 
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