Valerie Steele. Pink provokes exceptionally strong feelings of both attraction and repulsion. Indeed, it has been called the most divisive of colors. Yet attitudes towards pink are changing, and the color is increasingly regarded as cool and androgynous. Although pink is popularly associated with little girls, ballerinas, and all things feminine, the stereotype of pink for girls and blue for boys only really gained traction in the United States in the midth century, and the symbolism of pink has varied greatly across world history.