The power of pink

It is so good that one of the templates for these blogs is in pink. Pink used to be one of my favourite colours early on in my childhood. It was only much later that I came to know about the association of 'feminity' with the colour pink. Which makes me wonder how certain notions/associations are 'invented/constructed'. If a Martian were to be brought down to earth 'one fine morning', he/she (but is there gender among Martians?) might fail to see any 'logically necessary' connection between feminity and the pink colour. But then, perhaps, one can stay closer at home : a Trobriand Islander, a Tibetan or a Papua New Guinean too might not recognise any such connection.

Having said though, a more fundamental question comes up : is there anything at all which is not invented/constructed by us human beings?If gender associations (such as those of 'mercy/sentimentality' with 'feminity' and 'aggressiveness/rationality' with 'masculinity') are 'constructions', shall we say the same about all world-views that have been proposed so far? Are Marxism, theism, atheism, feminism, ecologism, Romanticism, nihilism, Islam, Buddhism and so on 'constructions' as well? Clearly, there is more to be said on this, and I shall return to this point in the next post.