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> So what is the non-arbitrary reason? The one mentioned in the article?

You seem smart enough to have figured out the implication, but I believe s/he meant that the inner portion of the labia and opening to the vagina are pink; the word pink is also used as a slag term for the female genitalia.



What passages from the text made you think she meant that?


This part:

> Sorry to be crude, but there is a very non-arbitrary reason for pink to be associated with females (and to a lesser extent, blue with males).

I thought the unstated crude, very non-arbitrary reason the grandparent poster aluded to was clear, but spelled out what I thought it to be in case I'm either wrong or someone didn't draw the inference.


My bad, I thought you were sourcing the article.


Well in that case: the penis glans is pink.


Sure. I'm not endorsing the theory, merely stating it more directly (or so I think - I might be wrong).


You're not wrong, that's what I meant. Well, and that the tunica albuginea is bluish, I believe.




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