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Nonesuch argues, implicitly, that anger is pathological, political outrage is equivalent to ideological repression, and that colors are devoid of social coding, and have nothing whatever to do with gender (regardless of what even the most casual shopping experience for items as seemingly neutral as appropriate clothing for a newborn or a schoolchild might indicate to the contrary).
Perhaps people also object to the pink simply because it clashes so violently with the predominant red color scheme and hurts people's eyes? Color theory, good design principles, established editorial policies and responsive customer service are themselves fairly neutral principles, nonesuch, based in sound business practice. A large part of the reader outrage being expressed here is based on the sense that those principles, at the least, have been abandoned.
Nonesuch, the intensity of your response, and the degree of anxiety you express, in turn puzzles me.
Perhaps the opinion nonesuch expresses is representative of the new demographic Salon hopes to attract with its new editorial policies?
