I’m very intriqued to see how fast the color posts spread all over facebook. I am even more disheartened in the indifference it caused. For all who don’t know the color post represented the olor of a girl’s bra to raise awareness for breast cancer. The better question is two-fold.
First, how many people went to google to research this? Better question: how many people heard this before responding with a random color?
Part 2 is how does this raise awareness for breast cancer?
Please breast cancer awareness groups and charities, I beg you to tell me what your marginal increase in revenue was (is) because of this promotion. When I see pink As a representation of something, I immediately think of supporting breast cancer awareness. Seeing blue, yellow, black, orange, rainbow from all my “friends” just makes me feel isolated because I missed the memo. Now that I am aware, where and to whom do I write the check out to? Oh wait, awareness is what we are going for. I am fully aware, and I think EVERYBODY is also aware.
What about the guys that picked a color to pretend that they knew what they were talking about?
Someone on Twitter said it best, and I wish I can remeber who. That person said: this doesn’t raise awareness for breast cancer. It raises breast awareness. This person is absolutely correct. What does your bra color have anything to do with breast cancer? How is it different then the millions of other stupid hashtags plauging Twitter #threewordsafterinaneevent?
Then I post something to get a rise out of people, and now I’m being called creepy. If you don’t want a snide remark about the color of your bra then don’t publicly tell anyone. You can’t walk around naked with the windows open and get mad if someone watches you. The Google guys said it best “some things shouldn’t be put on the Internet.” If you put it on the Internet and someone is snide about it, then whose fault is that? Faking a bra color is one thing. It says, you faked the color. Saying the actual color meant you went and your checked, and you want everyone to know.
Update 1: As the day progressed, more and more people were talking about it. Turns out all the chain letters told girls not to tell the men what was going on. Also, people were even starting groups saying I don’t want to know what color your bra is. In conservative America where rights of a whole class of people are being discriminated upon, revealing something so personal is now “appropriate.” Remember I’m the one who got flack for saying “pics or it didn’t happen.” Here is the article on The Washington Post, where a few lines struck me.
“I think the thing about posting your bra color was so incredibly dumb,” said Tanya Alteras. “I have a friend who is in her late 20s, just had a double mastectomy, chemo, and is now going through radiation, and she was furious about this. How this raises awareness about breast cancer is beyond me. It’s all about making a silly inside joke, and trying to make it meaningful. When you have people posting ‘Saran wrap’ it just becomes offensive.”
I couldn’t agree with you more, it was the dumbest meme ever, and it was just deliberately confusing.
It was a terrible meme. It did not raise breast cancer awareness in any direct or efficient manner. However, once I became aware of what the colors meant, I could at least respect that other people wanted to participate in the spirit of the meme. I didn’t feel the need to sneer at the people who had their hearts in the right places, unlike the author of this post. Some people took this ill-conceived idea and twisted it with obnoxious comments and postings. The author professes to object to the meme because it raises awareness of breasts, not breast cancer. Yet, his posting on facebook is “pics or it didn’t happen.” Asking women to take a picture of their bras/breasts and post them on facebook is a sleazy thing to do. It’s embarrassing that the author of this post can’t understand that how his comment “pics or it didn’t happen” does not, in any way, show an objection to the meme. It only shows his caveman attitude and complete insensitivity to women. He has the humor and attitude of a fifteen year old. His own sister in law had to be the one to call him out on facebook for being sleazy. The meme may be wrongheaded, but this blog post is just embarrassing and shows what a self-righteous hypocrite he can be.