首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls’ lives. It
Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls’ lives. It
admin
2017-12-11
41
问题
Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls’ lives. It is not that pink is intrinsically bad, but
it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow
and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls’ identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls’ lives and interests.
Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century, in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. What’s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses. When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolized femininity. It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’ s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Take the toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children’ s behavior: wrong. Turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularized as a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.
Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a "third stepping stone" between infant wear and older kids’ clothes. It was only after "toddler" became a common shoppers’ term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences—or invent them where they did not previously exist.
By saying "it is ... the rainbow"(Para. 1), the author means pink
选项
A、should not be the sole representation of girlhood.
B、should not be associated with girls’ innocence.
C、cannot explain girls’ lack of imagination.
D、cannot influence girls’ lives and interests.
答案
A
解析
含义题。从作者的语气“such a tiny slice”,“repeatedly”,及第一段结尾作者的态度“I despaired at the singular lack of imagination”可知,作者认为女生的生活充斥着单一的粉色,既无变化也无 新意,粉色的东西不应该是女孩生活的全部,就像彩虹有很多种颜色一样,所有A项符合题意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/3XX7FFFM
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Peopleusedtothinkthatlearningtwolanguagescreatedconfusioninthemind.Far【C1】______itwasthought,togetonerightth
Oldpeoplearealwayssayingthattheyoungarenotwhattheywere.Thesame【C1】______ismadefromgenerationtogenerationand
Asageneralrule,AmericanmenearnmorethanAmericanwomen.Thisholdstrueacrossindustries,acrosseducationlevels,anda
About3billionpeoplelivewithin100miles(160km)ofthesea,anumberthatcoulddoubleinthenextdecadeashumansflockt
Airpollutionkilledaboutsevenmillionpeoplelastyear,makingittheworld’ssinglebiggestenvironmentalhealthrisk,theW
Airpollutionkilledaboutsevenmillionpeoplelastyear,makingittheworld’ssinglebiggestenvironmentalhealthrisk,theW
Scientistssaytheyhavefoundawaytoturnbodyfatintoabettertypeoffatthatburnsoffcaloriesandweight.TheUSJohns
Scientistssaytheyhavefoundawaytoturnbodyfatintoabettertypeoffatthatburnsoffcaloriesandweight.TheUSJohns
Justsevenyearsago,theTexasLegislatureprescribedthatallhighschoolersmustpasstwomathcoursesandgeometrytogradua
Thenewsaboutvitaminskeepsgettingworse.Manystudiespublishedinthelastfewyearsshowsthatavarietyofpopularsupple
随机试题
下列哪项不是引起下腰痛的诱因
软组织损伤后早期不能应用热疗的主要原因是
图4-26所示点P沿螺线自外向内运动。它走过的弧长与时间的一次方成正比。关于该点的运动,有以下4种答案,则()是正确的。
某公司2012年末应收账款所属明细科目借方余额合计为8000万元,预收账款所属明细科目借方余额合计为2000万元,预付账款明细科目借方余额3000万元。2012年末应收账款计提的坏账准备贷方余额为200万元,那么,在资产负债表上应收账款项目应填列的金额为(
我国政府预算体系的基础是()。
下列各项中,可由省、自治区、直辖市地方税务局确定减免城镇土地使用税的有()。
Oneproblemwithmuchpersonalityresearchisthatitexaminesandrateswhatevertraitstheresearchersareinterestedinatth
A、Becauseitisverybeautifulthere.B、Becausethereisaflowershowthere.C、Becauseitismorequietandpeacefulthere.D、B
Theneedforbirthcontrolmethodshasdevelopedfairlyrecently,withthedesireamongmanywomento【B1】______decidewhenthey
A、Theyshouldgiveuptalking.B、Theyshouldbothmakeacompromise.C、Theycanmeetnexttime.D、Theyarebothhalfway.B男士话中的“
最新回复
(
0
)