Products For Girls Are Pink
Things for sold girls and women are increasingly pink colored.


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That had better be for raising breast cancer awareness.

That's right -- pink guns. If you're a woman who's put off by the macho violence of guns, maybe you'd change your mind if they were pink.

These days, products made for women, especially girls, are increasingly more often going to be pink. Whether it's toys, clothes, school supplies, phones, backpacks, etc., what is meant for girls will more than likely be pink. This accounts mainly for The Merch, but can cover things In Universe (especially when lampshading or discussing this).

Many people these days find this an almost insulting attitude, as if saying the color of the product is the sole turn off from women buying it, implying they can be that shallow. And while it might help sales in some case, it doesn't always work, as what makes people not buy them is something that changing the color doesn't solve.

A Sub Trope of Pink Means Feminine.

Compare Clarke's Law for Girls' Toys.

Examples:

  • Barbie not only has plenty of pink clothes, Mattel even has a copyright on the shade "Barbie Pink".
  • The Disney Princess merchandise is usually pink on the packages, and the line logo is pink.
  • The toys for My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic include a lot more pink on the ponies than is actually in the show.
  • Some versions of the Playstation 2 were sold with pink systems and pink controllers.

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