Tim managing to inject his gay agenda into a video about deep learning. "Boys should not wear pink? That's learned behavior!"
In the U.S, originally boys would wear pink and girls wore blue from the 1800s to around the 1940s. Pink was seen as a masculine color, a lighter form of red. So, yeah, he's right.
This is apparently a myth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendered_associations_of_pink_and_blue
There is a small grain of truth here: the widespread
standardization of pink-for-girls-and-blue-for-boys apparently didn't solidify until the 1940s, i.e. the mass media age, but this is not an especially controversial claim, not nearly as interesting or
ideologically useful as the claim that "ACTUALLY, boys were all in PINK, ahahaha CHECKMATE, CHUDS!"
Treat all such stories--anything presented with the idea that normal people have been EXACTLY WRONG, ALL ALONG--as nonsense until you've seen proof. Feminist/queer scholars are basically whiny children play-acting as adult academics. That goes double for feminist/queer-advocate journos. (And may go triple for liberal Redditors doling out "fun facts," which are absolutely never fun or factual.) Even if you remove the agenda pushing, they simply don't know how to do honest research, statistical analysis, or basic logic. Probably because it's been effectively illegal to criticize them for a very long time. In this case, it looks like journos attributed a baseless claim to some professor who never made it, and it was subsequently repeated so often that the guy who finally debunked it wasn't even sure whom he was debunking.
This sort of thing happens frequently in that quarter. The claim may even be much more ridiculous than the pink-for-boys thing--the sort of claim
that doesn't stand up to 15 seconds of lazy scrutiny--and yet it will be repeated, over and over, uncritically, until no one can remember where it came from, just that it's been mentioned in the New York Times, and Vanity Fair quoted the New York Times' mention of it, and Wapo quoted Vanity Fair's quoting of it, and now it's in an official Google presentation, #InternationalWomensDay, etc, etc, and it is simply The Truth™.