Boys in Pink and Girls with Trucks
The World is Getting Better
4 min readJan 16, 2021
I was born in the 1950s, when gender roles were rigidly enforced. If you were a girl, you wore a dress and played with dolls. Your color was pink. If you were a boy, you wore pants and played with trucks. Your color was blue.
If you resisted these ground rules, you were in for plenty of trouble.
