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Lots of bull riding rednecks I grew up with in the 80s wore hot pink. T-shirts, nascar hats, etc.

I’ve always thought of color blind condition having to do with the number of rods and cones in the eyes. There aren’t as many in the eyes or color blind people so the definition of color detection is reduced. Colors are just bands on the electromagnetic spectrum, usually differentiated by nanometers. Most people can tell the difference between 5-10 nanometers in that scale, some even less! A colorblind person can only tell between 50 nm. The red and the green colors are right next to each other as are the yellow and green, and the indigo/blue. So if you’re showing me a color that’s red but only 10nm away from being green, I might just call it green. Likewise for a green that’s close to being red. Or blue close to purple. Or green close to yellow. It’s annoying and other people NEVER seem to understand. Yes that’s red, but it’s such a weaksauce shade of red that I can’t tell the difference between that and your red-adjacent green you chose.

There has been a decent amount of adjustment in color schemes of important things like traffic lights to where I never have trouble getting the color right. It’s not hard to make things colorblind friendly. Just place the color deeper into the band that defines it instead of using a shade that is almost the next color.

Anyway, rant over.

Shaman says

I’ve always thought of color blind condition having to do with the number of rods and cones in the eyes.

I think it's the type as well? Apparently there are a small number of women (no men that I'm aware of) that have a 4th(?) type which allows them to see colors other humans can't. I think it's only a handful of people though. Okay, just searched and found this:

"Tetrachromats have one extra type of cone that allows them to see a fourth dimensionality of colors. It results from a genetic mutation. And there's indeed a good genetic reason why tetrachromats are more likely to be women. The possibility of a tetrachromacy mutation is only passed through the X chromosome."

It’s carried on the X chromosome. So my son was never in any danger of having that condition. But my two daughters, beautiful as they are, each have 50% chance of carrying the bad gene, which they’d have another 50% chance of passing to any male children for the condition or passing the pass through effect to their daughters.

I’m not complaining much. It hasn’t affected my life too much, aside from derailing my dreams of being a fighter pilot. It’s occasionally a problem at work when I have to do some wiring with old color coded cables. I say old because the newer stuff is colored considerately with clearly defined colors. There are work arounds for knowing your colors, and I know them all.

My pre-school teacher told my mom she thought I was retarded because I couldn’t get my colors right.