I mean, there's plenty of evidence of women saying exactly this all over social media. Here's a WSJ article over it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...
When I think of Hackernews, I think of US Gen-Xers that don't realize they're out of touch yet, because so many of the comments act this way.
That WSJ article's first paragraph and your response suggests they were only able to Poll teenagers.
But
> “Who’s green?”
Has come up many a times. For me in SF, where everyone is so tolerant of everything except the horoscope signs you couldn't chose and your text message color. And many other places in the US. Amongst adults that can't be on their parent's health insurance anymore.