[GeronL]

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[a fool in paradise]

In the episode "Tickled Pink", poor vain James, is ordered by Topham Hat to get a new coat of paint. But while James has only had an undercoat of pink slathered on, Topham Hatt interrupts and demands that James go pick up Hatt's granddaughter and deliver her and her friends to a birthday party right now. James is mortified that he has to travel while pink and proceeds to hide from all the other trains along the way.

... But once James gets back on the rails and picks up Granddaughter Hatt and her friends, all seemingly ends well because the girls love pink.

Well guess what? It's not OK. You think a little boy watching Thomas is going to file away the lesson that pink is OK for boys? No, what kids remember is that James was laughed at, cruelly, over and over again, because he looked different and was clad in a "girly" pink color.

Maybe the train was mortified that it had to go out in public wearing only its underpaints!

A lot of people don't like to be seen driving their car around town with a panel painted in primer gray.

[a fool in paradise]

And that's not even to get started on the female trains. Well, actually it's hard to get started on them, because they barely exist.

There are boy trains and girl trains? Do go on, continue...