If We Handled Favorite Colors The Way We Handle Beauty Standards

The most popular favorite color in the world is blue, and so society would tell us that liking any color other than blue was some kind of creepy fetish.  Media would depict all other colors as hideous, ranked on how similar they were to blue, green’s okay, purple’s okay, turquoise is pretty good, orange?  Oh my god what’s wrong with you? You’re obviously some kind of sex pervert.

Obviously they’d say liking blue relates to like deep evolutionary psychology, liking clean water, and the sky and that sort of thing, but liking red?  Obviously there’s something wrong with your DNA, red is the color of blood, what kind of fucked up pervert likes the color of blood.

And then there’b be color positivity campaigns that are like “It’s just as good to like turquoise as it is to like blue.”  or like “Primary blue is an unrealistic standard to hold up to natural life, sky blue is much more realistic" and then there’d be people going “we should redefine blue as green because more things are green so it wouldn’t make as many non blue things feel bad about themselves” and “they photoshop the sky bluer than it is, they’re giving us unreasonable expectations of blueness”