I was at the library last weekend with my two boys and we were playing a board game with pieces of all different colors. My 7 year old son picked a purple piece, and another boy who was a little older than him and at the same table as us said, “Why did you pick purple? That’s a girl color.”

This has happened many times over the years, coming from boys and girls. And every time it happens, including this time, I told him, “There’s no such thing as boy or girl colors. All colors are for everyone.” I also said purple was one of my favorite colors, which is true because purple is an incredible color.

Parents: please make it extremely clear to your kids, both boys and girls, that all colors are for all people. There are no boy colors or girl colors. There used to be, but that time is gone.

Color is one of the most incredible phenomena in existence. It is extremely dumb and self-defeating to segregate specific colors by gender when there are literally millions of variations of colors detectable by human eyes and available for our enjoyment.