Painting locker rooms pink

[Deja Q]

This is a "news article" on abc news right now?

The color is used in psycho wards to keep people calm. And used for intimidation.

Why is everybody whining about "defaming women and gays"? We all know that's obvious.

But this "article" doesn't say the other aspect: This is cheating on a psychological level.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. Heyyyy, The Psycho Ward I was In Had WHITE walls!

[0007]

2. Mauve pink would make anyone go nuts!

[Kurovski]

15. Muave is the color of a decaying corpse pulled from the sea.

It is a disturbing color. No wonder it was created during the Victorian era.

[lonestarnot]

23. Color of my pig in the poke!

[Kurovski]

25. HeHe..

Are you a redhead?

[lonestarnot]

26. What does that have to do with the price of tea?

[Kurovski]

29. You really have a pig?

I thought you were speaking euphemistically.

Does a pig change color once the little darlin' leaves the poke? :-)

[lonestarnot]

30. The pig is the pig I painted on a sign today. He doesn't show up very

good in the pic. I posted it for you. He's at the lower right of the sign. Used to have a pig, but not pink. Black and White. Named Hambone. Smarter than a bushitler, which ain't say'n much.

[Kurovski]

31. NOW I see the little piggy!

Pigs are smart.

While Bush has trouble with pretzels and doorknobs.

[lonestarnot]

32. Now admit it, you were just trying to be nasty weren't you?

:evilgrin:

[Kurovski]

33. I don't have to "try" to be nasty.

:-) It's a natural gift.

[lonestarnot]

35. You stinker!

:evilgrin:

[Kurovski]

37. That's a personal attack!

But it's an adroit one. :-)

[0007]

28. You got that right!

:puke:

[Kurovski]

34. Mauve is the pallor of cold death.

A healthy mind recoils from it.

It had a re-emergence in the 80's too, just the perfect color for the Reagan era.

[babylonsister]

3. That's odd; mine were tank gray/green! nt

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

9. The Walls in Jail were tank gray/green LOL

[babylonsister]

21. Jail, psycho ward, I get my rooms

mixed up! :crazy:

[leftchick]

11. my ward was blue and puke green

horizontal stripes.

[Qanisqineq]

12. Mine was white with blue carpet!

Pink would have made me puke. :puke:

[bbinacan]

4. I seem to remember

having read/heard something that said over time, the pink walls had the opposite effect of being calming.:shrug:

[bluestateguy]

5. I think the controversy is political correctness gone amok

The psychological evidence is pretty clear about what pink does to competitors. An association with gays and women is coincidental.

And I will not be called anti-gay because I take this position. I support the rights of gays to serve in the military openly, to legally marry, to adopt children and to be protected against job and housing discrimination.

Football is a tough and violent game. This kind of stuff should not be considered surprising.

[pstans]

6. Go Iowa Hawkeyes!

I am not watching the story on the news, but I am guessing they are talking about the Iowa Hawkeyes visitors locker room. The visiting locker room has been painted pink for over 20 years. Former Iowa head coach Hayden Fry was a physchology major and decided to do this to give his team any advantage they could get. This year a visiting Law Professor has started a fuss about it, saying that it is descriminatory towards women and gays.

I think the whole thing is ridiculous. It is just a football locker room. It is a tradition and it doesn't harm anyone.

[SharonRB]

17. The were, in fact, discussing the Hawkeyes locker room.

[pstans]

22. A few years ago Michigan put up Butcher paper on the walls...

so it wouldn't be pink on game day.

[purduejake]

19. I don't see how it could be discriminatory...

Nobody is being targeted for being a woman or for being gay. If I walked into my office and somebody painted it pink because I really am gay, I think it would be a totally different story.

[Pirate Smile]

20. Must be. It has been like this since before I even started Iowa and I

graduated 15 years ago.

Iowa reaction. :eyes:

Go Hawks!

[NV Whino]

7. I always thought

Howard Hughes green was the calming color. AKA institutional green.

[Wapsie B]

8. This is old news.

Iowa's been doing this since the early 80's and some university prof is making a big deal about it now? Sounds like her 15 minutes are about up. Go Hawks!

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. As a Big 12 fan,

I whole heartedly agree.

[IowaGuy]

10. I'm fairly amused at this.....

Hayden Fry did this a couple of decades ago and it is now a "hot" news story?????

Seems to me, although the Hawks won more than they lost at home...they did get their asses thumped on more than one occasion....fail to see that it had any effect....havin' trouble believin' somebody that trains 24/7, pumps up w/ roids, has 50,000 people screamin at 'em, pressure from coaches, fellow players and routinely engages in a physical smash mouth sport like football is going to get all discombobulated by a wall painted pink...

If this is what some people got to worry about, I'd say life is goin' pretty good....

cheating on a psychological level?? is there some rule mandating any aspect of what the opponents locker is supposed to be configured as?

[alfredo]

14. If they want to screw with their minds, shorten one leg on all

chairs and benches. Lower the flow on all water fountains, and loosen the bolts on the toilet seats so they scoot around. Make sure the fluorescent lights blink.

[Kurovski]

13. They should have called it "Salmon", or "Tequila sunrise"

"Healing scar" or "tumbleweed" which is an off-white pinkish-tan color.

They could have saved themselves from all the teeth-gnashing.

PC run amok? You bet.

[EC]

18. Years ago there was a study and it was Pepto Bismol pink

that worked...A prison (can't remember which, it seems to me it was Michigan) used it and a football team used it in the visiting teams locker room...don't recall results

[Kurovski]

24. Here's an article and photo link

from June 2005. I guess they still don't know the definitive results.

http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2005/06/08/Tampabay/Gritty_and_pink.shtml

[kevinbgoode]

27. How about Pepto-Bismal pink?

Maybe that will make everyone just up and puke.

[Captain Hilts]

36. How about UArk coach making players who loaf wear pink jersies...

in practice?

That's sexist.