Last week, I went around several shops looking for a Mother’s Day card that was not pink and floral, and couldn’t find a single one. Why is it assumed that this suits all women’s tastes? And why does this gender socialisation continue from when we are young girls to when we are grown women? Pinks and florals may be to some people’s tastes, and that’s fine, but I think we deserve different, more refreshing option. Equally, it angers me that women who do like pinks and florals are seen as ‘typically girly’ – it seems to me that society creates these gender stereotypes, but then shames women whether they fulfil them or not.
