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[electricland]

Apparently it's Fashion Week. The most immediate consequence of this for me is that I have to dodge a giant tent in Nathan Phillips Square (the one on the splash page) on my way to and from work. There's also a Barbie-pink fire truck flogging Schick razors (for women, naturally). Occasionally the pink-is-for-girls thing just irks me, and this is one of those times. Because (a) that is just too much pink, a colour of which one can tire quite easily, (b) why do we only get one colour, and that a noxious one? Why not pale green or lilac or burnt orange or silver? and (c) in my darker moments, I speculate that it's not so much pink-is-for-girls as the Scarlet Pink Letter: GIRL COOTIES! Manly men, stay away! Or at least, Pfft... don't bother. Girls will put up with this, but you don't have to.

I am probably assigning way too much intent to the Schick pink fire truck. I dunno, what do you think?