R: Re: R: Re: Color associations

H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:00:40PM +0200, Mangiat wrote:
> [snip]
> > Yellow has been my favourite colour for all my childhood. At the
> > kindergarten, when they asked me which was my fav colour and I answered
> > 'yellow', they answered me I couldn't choose that because it was
'reserved
> > to girls' : ) Now I like them all (but I prefer light colours to dark
ones).
> [snip]
>
> Any clues as to why yellow was "reserved to the girls"? If it's something
> like red or pink, I'd understand, as that's basically a traditional thing;
> but yellow? I mean, I always thought yellow was like for royalty or
> something, nothing feminine about it. (Although my personal reason for
> liking yellow is 'cos it feels "lush", whatever that means.)
Well, these is the complete chart (as I remeber it):

RED, BLUE and GREEN: male and female

PINK, YELLOW, WHITE: female

BLACK, PURPLE (?),  BROWN: male (Uh-oh.. I terribly dislike all of these...:
(

> And yeah, my color tastes have changed slightly... I still like yellow,
> though not as obssessively as before :-) but now I also like shades of
> green. But light green or bright green still doesn't appeal to me
> though... I still prefer the darker shades of green, preferably with some
> blue mixed in... ;-) but I HATE anything brown. Green with a little brown
> mixed in is just disgusting to me; I tend to think of them as "dirty
> greens", but that's just me. :-)
>
Luca