> The problem here is that almost certainly whoever used "pansy" first in
> its sexual sense was not a philologist, and was probably focusing on the
> appearance of the flower or the sound of the word _in English_. How long
> has the colro lavendar been associated with homosexuality.
Weren't the associations of pink and blue reversed a couple hundred years ago? Pink being kind of in-your-face, blue cool and withdrawing (so went the "reasoning")?
-- Andy