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• Monday, November 14, 2005 02:27 PM

  Broadsheet - I like it - one suggestion

  I like this new broadsheet. Some valuable, thought-churning provocations. I am always happy to read commentary relating to women's issues. I only hope you are not risking a subsequent decline in coverage of women's issues in the main section of Salon by highlighting it in a separate section. Nevertheless I am eager to see how it turns out and optimistic about its value - at the very least I hope it will jumpstart new discussions about feminism, gender, sex, politics. Yum.

  My only request is to please change your colour scheme. That colour pink reminds me of secret, shameful women's hygiene products or credit cards "just for you"! that encourage me to spend my hard-earned secretary's cash. In other words, a marketing scheme. Just for ladies! It fact, like a bull taunted by a red velvet cape, it damn near enrages me. Why is pernicious pink the dark side of bringing women's issues into the mainstream? Breast cancer = pink. Women love politics = PINK. 9 out of 10 women say they love pink! PINK PINK PINK PINK it drives me mad. Can I please be allowed to encounter a product related to my womanhood that is not coloured PINK?

  Pink is for ballerinas. I last loved the colour pink when I was 6 years old. When I was 6 years old I had no idea what it meant to have a uterus.

  May I remind the world that men are just as pink as women?

  —zoegreenberg Read zoegreenberg's other letters
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