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LiJDivine
My Baby sister is coming Home from staying with her Aunt and Cousins in Minnesota and our mother is staying in a 2 Bedroom Apartment. We can't paint the room or anything like that. Our mother has the Master Bedroom and my baby sister has the other room and that room is a small like. I have my own House and Family so here's the description of her room. Everything is White except the Carpet. The whole apartment has like a Dark Blue Carpet so her bedroom carpet is Dark Blue like. The Walls, Both Closets, Celing and BedR. Door is all white.
I'm going to Describe the room from North, South, East and West.
East~Bedroom Door(Entrance) in the middle of the east wall.
West~Both Closets(They are a pretty good size closets not walk in or anything. They are connected to one another so if you look in one, you can see the other. Both closets have two doors each.
North~Just a Wall it's long enough. That's where the bed is going to go.
South~It's the same as the north side wall except there's Pretty Good Size Window(Not to big Not to small. Just right). It's a little close to the east side wall.
Now my baby sister is Versatile. She wants to have a Job in Fashion Industry. I mean she told us on the phone that she wants to become a Model, Fashion Designer and a Female Rapper. And we don't know if she wants a Girly Room or Just Modern or what. I mean she loves pink and things but then she'll get mad and have her days and sleep in the car or something. She has a Laptop that we bought her for Xmas. and things so like I said the room is a little Small but not that small. Please ppl what colors should the drapes and things be. Should a Desk go in there? Like when she does her homework she doesn't want to be bothered by the little ones. and she goes all over the house with her laptop. So is a desk possible? She needs a Full Sized Bed will that work? And my mother and I are only spending $400 at Target or Walmart. Thanks.
She loves Pink, Browns and Black, Whites. Things like that. She'll have her days and things. Get's Mad and all and then she doesn't like the color of the room so. We need to know. It's a Surprise for her. She'll be coming home in May after school is out. She's Graduating in 2008. So ppl please help me and my mother decide.
Answer
The first thing I thought of is pink, black and gray or cream - sort of a retro Hollywood theme. If she likes pink and she wants to be in the fashion biz, she would probly like that. It's pretty popular right now to so you could easily find accessories. I don't know how that would work with the dark blue carpet tho - is it dark enough that it could be mistaken for black? Or you could go to a carpet store and buy a remnant of black or gray carpet to use as a throw rug. Maybe one big enough to cover most of the floor - you can get remnents pretty cheap, shop around tho.
Since you can't paint the walls you could get a good sized piece of fabric (a sheet) with a cool design and hang it behind the bed. You could even fashion a little sort of canopy over the bed. It would take the place of a headboard.
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/hi_bedrooms/article/0,2037,DIY_13904_2270503,00.html
For the closet doors, staple fabric around oblong pieces of sturdy cardboard (find a box from an appliance or large piece of furniture) and attach it to the doors with heavy duty double sided tape or small nails. Cut it to look like an insert on the door and it will look really cool.
Get some of those 12"x12" mirror squares and mount them on a piece of plywood, maybe 3 ft x 6 ft (18 mirror squares) and lean it up against a wall. This would look best if you put some molding around it, to frame it out.
The closet sounds pretty good sized so you might put either her desk on one side. You might find one at a second hand store or garage sale for a good price. A cool paint treatment is to paint a base color, then tape a piece of lace over it and spray paint a contrasting color thru the lace. It leaves a neat pattern on the furniture and you can use the painted lace somewhere else in the room.
I saw this once on Design on a Dime on HGTV and it was awesome but I can't find pics of it. I think it might be one thats going to be on this Friday, Glam Deco Bedroom. They don't have pics posted so I'm not sure.
Another design she might like is here
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/dc_design_bedroom/article/0,1793,HGTV_3366_3398029,00.html
The first thing I thought of is pink, black and gray or cream - sort of a retro Hollywood theme. If she likes pink and she wants to be in the fashion biz, she would probly like that. It's pretty popular right now to so you could easily find accessories. I don't know how that would work with the dark blue carpet tho - is it dark enough that it could be mistaken for black? Or you could go to a carpet store and buy a remnant of black or gray carpet to use as a throw rug. Maybe one big enough to cover most of the floor - you can get remnents pretty cheap, shop around tho.
Since you can't paint the walls you could get a good sized piece of fabric (a sheet) with a cool design and hang it behind the bed. You could even fashion a little sort of canopy over the bed. It would take the place of a headboard.
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/hi_bedrooms/article/0,2037,DIY_13904_2270503,00.html
For the closet doors, staple fabric around oblong pieces of sturdy cardboard (find a box from an appliance or large piece of furniture) and attach it to the doors with heavy duty double sided tape or small nails. Cut it to look like an insert on the door and it will look really cool.
Get some of those 12"x12" mirror squares and mount them on a piece of plywood, maybe 3 ft x 6 ft (18 mirror squares) and lean it up against a wall. This would look best if you put some molding around it, to frame it out.
The closet sounds pretty good sized so you might put either her desk on one side. You might find one at a second hand store or garage sale for a good price. A cool paint treatment is to paint a base color, then tape a piece of lace over it and spray paint a contrasting color thru the lace. It leaves a neat pattern on the furniture and you can use the painted lace somewhere else in the room.
I saw this once on Design on a Dime on HGTV and it was awesome but I can't find pics of it. I think it might be one thats going to be on this Friday, Glam Deco Bedroom. They don't have pics posted so I'm not sure.
Another design she might like is here
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/dc_design_bedroom/article/0,1793,HGTV_3366_3398029,00.html
Why is pink considered a girly color and blue a boyish color?
Q. We are doing a project on gender color stereotyping, and would like to get some insight on the topic.
Also, what are other colors considered as, gender wise?
Also, what are other colors considered as, gender wise?
Answer
It seems the stereotype of blue for boys, pink for girls is relatively recent. "In the US in the early 1800's, boys and girls were dressed alike in white from birth through early childhood. Babies wore 'long clothes' which were white cotton dresses that extended beyond the length of the infants' body."[1]
But even when children were clothed in colour, it was the reverse of todays trend. "Since pink was [at the turn of the century] a stronger color it was best suited for boys; blue was more delicate and dainty and best for girls. And in 1921, the Women's Institute for Domestic Science in Pennsylvania endorsed pink for boys, blue for girls."[2]
But at some point this color codification was reversed. One theory explaining this reversal purports that it was inspired by the pink triangle male homosexuals were made to wear in Nazi Germany around the time of WWII. "Catholic traditions in Germany and neighboring countries reverse the current color coding, because of the strong association of blue with the Virgin Mary...the NAZI's in their concentration camps use a pink triangle to identify homosexuals. ... The NAZI's choice of pink suggests that it by the 1930s was a color that in Germany had become associate with girls."[3]
Another WWII era explanation sees the change occur in American 50's suburbia after the war. "Reflecting the 'pink-is-for-girls-mom-in-the-kitchen' mentality, she was admonished to 'think pink' â to wear pink lipstick, drive a pink car, or buy pink household appliances â all of which was reinforced by an all-pink sequence in the classic Audrey Hepburn Technicolor film, Funny Face. The quintessential icon of femininity, Barbie, was born and much of the time, she wore pink."[4]
Perhaps there's a sense of femaleness and female camaraderie in the pink obsession. "â¦Today, with the effects of advertising on consumer preferences, these color customs are a worldwide standardâ¦The saccharine, confectionery pink objects that fill my images of little girls and their accessories reveal a pervasive and culturally manipulated expression of femininity and a desire to be seen."[5]
But is this preference for pink biologically determined and 'hardwired' in girls? Studies have been done which suggest this. "Researchers at Newcastle University pinpointed the pink-blue division by presenting more than 200 men and women with a series of coloured triangles and asking them to pick out their favorite hues. ... Faced with more than 250 different colour choices, the women clearly veered towards pinks and lilacs, while the men went mainly for blues." [6]
However, this has been challenged, "in a 'Bad Science' report by Ben Goldacre in the Guardian, who pointed out that even if a preference for pinker colours was seem among women, the researchers had not screened out the likely explanation that this a cultural rather than biological difference. We surround girls with pink, we buy them pink clothes, we give them pink bedrooms, can we be surprised if they are readier to say they like pink?"[7]
The gender colour division is the tip of the iceberg in a world that is reinforcing traditional gender stereotypes with scientific research that supports gender division, from work to aptitude, from verbal ability to colour preference. "This is not just about the difficulties experienced by the occasional girl who hates pink or boy who wants to do ballet, but about how we reinforce stereotypes in many, often subtle way. ... [G]irls are constantly assumed to be more verbal and sensitive, and boys more aggressive and socially immature. And this new traditionalism is taking on extra strength by the renaissance of biological determinism: the theory that the differences we see between boys and girls are not created by social influences, but are laid down for them by the time they are born by genetic and hormonal differences."[8]
Lise Eliot, an American neuroscientist, in her book "Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps - And What We Can Do About It" describes several experiments where these stereotypes innateness was put to the test. The Sydney Morning Herald reported a particular experiment in which, "the children's genders were misrepresented so that the adults thought they were assessing boys when they were observing girls and vice versa. The result was that the 'girls' were consistently judged to be less aggressive and less able than the 'boys'. The essential point of Eliot's book is that small attitudinal variations regarding the nature and proficiencies of boys and girls are amplified over time with the consequence that gender stereotypes are, in effect, force-multipliers ensuring their own self-perpetuation."[9]
Visit my blog for a slightly longer version and other posts about related issues
themeninthehighcastle.blogspot.com
It seems the stereotype of blue for boys, pink for girls is relatively recent. "In the US in the early 1800's, boys and girls were dressed alike in white from birth through early childhood. Babies wore 'long clothes' which were white cotton dresses that extended beyond the length of the infants' body."[1]
But even when children were clothed in colour, it was the reverse of todays trend. "Since pink was [at the turn of the century] a stronger color it was best suited for boys; blue was more delicate and dainty and best for girls. And in 1921, the Women's Institute for Domestic Science in Pennsylvania endorsed pink for boys, blue for girls."[2]
But at some point this color codification was reversed. One theory explaining this reversal purports that it was inspired by the pink triangle male homosexuals were made to wear in Nazi Germany around the time of WWII. "Catholic traditions in Germany and neighboring countries reverse the current color coding, because of the strong association of blue with the Virgin Mary...the NAZI's in their concentration camps use a pink triangle to identify homosexuals. ... The NAZI's choice of pink suggests that it by the 1930s was a color that in Germany had become associate with girls."[3]
Another WWII era explanation sees the change occur in American 50's suburbia after the war. "Reflecting the 'pink-is-for-girls-mom-in-the-kitchen' mentality, she was admonished to 'think pink' â to wear pink lipstick, drive a pink car, or buy pink household appliances â all of which was reinforced by an all-pink sequence in the classic Audrey Hepburn Technicolor film, Funny Face. The quintessential icon of femininity, Barbie, was born and much of the time, she wore pink."[4]
Perhaps there's a sense of femaleness and female camaraderie in the pink obsession. "â¦Today, with the effects of advertising on consumer preferences, these color customs are a worldwide standardâ¦The saccharine, confectionery pink objects that fill my images of little girls and their accessories reveal a pervasive and culturally manipulated expression of femininity and a desire to be seen."[5]
But is this preference for pink biologically determined and 'hardwired' in girls? Studies have been done which suggest this. "Researchers at Newcastle University pinpointed the pink-blue division by presenting more than 200 men and women with a series of coloured triangles and asking them to pick out their favorite hues. ... Faced with more than 250 different colour choices, the women clearly veered towards pinks and lilacs, while the men went mainly for blues." [6]
However, this has been challenged, "in a 'Bad Science' report by Ben Goldacre in the Guardian, who pointed out that even if a preference for pinker colours was seem among women, the researchers had not screened out the likely explanation that this a cultural rather than biological difference. We surround girls with pink, we buy them pink clothes, we give them pink bedrooms, can we be surprised if they are readier to say they like pink?"[7]
The gender colour division is the tip of the iceberg in a world that is reinforcing traditional gender stereotypes with scientific research that supports gender division, from work to aptitude, from verbal ability to colour preference. "This is not just about the difficulties experienced by the occasional girl who hates pink or boy who wants to do ballet, but about how we reinforce stereotypes in many, often subtle way. ... [G]irls are constantly assumed to be more verbal and sensitive, and boys more aggressive and socially immature. And this new traditionalism is taking on extra strength by the renaissance of biological determinism: the theory that the differences we see between boys and girls are not created by social influences, but are laid down for them by the time they are born by genetic and hormonal differences."[8]
Lise Eliot, an American neuroscientist, in her book "Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps - And What We Can Do About It" describes several experiments where these stereotypes innateness was put to the test. The Sydney Morning Herald reported a particular experiment in which, "the children's genders were misrepresented so that the adults thought they were assessing boys when they were observing girls and vice versa. The result was that the 'girls' were consistently judged to be less aggressive and less able than the 'boys'. The essential point of Eliot's book is that small attitudinal variations regarding the nature and proficiencies of boys and girls are amplified over time with the consequence that gender stereotypes are, in effect, force-multipliers ensuring their own self-perpetuation."[9]
Visit my blog for a slightly longer version and other posts about related issues
themeninthehighcastle.blogspot.com
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