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this is why I say that lil ribbon does little to help causes. It just seems gimmicky to me. Like some feel good short cut to say "I m doing something".
Maybe I m just cynical... but every disease/Cause has a color it appears according to FiremountainGems says for those of you making " awareness" jewelry for folks to wear in hopes that someone may ask, "why are you wearing that [purple and pink in that bracelet?]"
here is what Blue stands for... ( not to be confused with the teal blue or the light blue ones)
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Alopecia
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Arthritis
Brachial Plexus Injuries
Child Abuse Prevention
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Colitis
Colon Cancer
Colorectal Cancer
Crime Victim's Rights
Crohn's Disease
Drowning
Dysautonomia
Dystonia
Education
Epstein-Barr Virus
Erb's Palsy
Familial Polyposis
Free Speech
Guillian Barre Syndrome
Huntington's Disease
Hurricane
Hurricane Katrina
Histiocytosis
Ichthyosis
Interstitial Cystitis
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
Leukodystrophies
ME/CFIDS
Myositis
Police Lost in Duty
Rectal Cancer
Restless Legs Syndrome
Reye's Syndrome
Save the Music in Our Schools
Short Bowel Syndrome
Steven Johnson Syndrome
Teens Against Smoking
Transverse Myelitis
Victim's Rights
Water Quality
Water Safety
Heres the Black Ribbon
Amish Support
Anti-Terrorism
Gang Prevention
Gun Control
Melanoma
Mourning
Narcolepsy
POW/MIA (alternative color: Yellow
Sleep Apnea
Sleep Disorders
Students for Gun Control
Trauma
Now while I am all for Amish support, does it really rank up there with anti terrorism? or gun control or mourning? who came up with all this? Is this a little like selling Hallowen candy and supplies in August just fatten our big butts up? anything for $$.... It seems to lessen the impact in my lil ol rant here.
Dont forget to
do something tangible... Talk to your family, help someone get to where they need to be to get safe, call the police if you suspect DV in a neighbors home, it will be anonymous.
100% with you on this one! Thanks for this blog post :)
ReplyDeleteWhen ribbons first started (I'm pretty sure it was with pink for breast cancer and soon after that the red one for HIV/AIDS) the idea was you bought a ribbon somewhere and the money went to a breast cancer charity. At least that was the way it worked way back when in the UK.
ReplyDeleteJust wearing a ribbon doesn't really seem to mean much anymore especially as it seems there are so many of them!