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[malymin]

One of the most groan-inducing things I've ever realized spontaneously was that Anne Mcaffrey very specifically only chose color names for her dragons' types that start with "g" or "b." The golds and greens are all female. The bronzes, browns, and blues are all male. It always struck me as an arbitrary set of colors (and arbitrary assignment of colors to sexes, relative to sex-based color dimorphism in irl animals) until I realized.

It's... "G" for "girl" and "B" for "boy."

I've never even read the Pern series.

You really can do anything and get away with it if you don't lampshade it, I suppose.