bitterdiva

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Many years ago, my father and brother started wearing a bracelet. It was a red metal one that listed a person's name and the date of their pow/mia status. Last year, Lance Armstrong started silicone LiveStrong bracelets in support of cancer. I don't know if the yellow bracelet came out of the idea of the pow/mia bracelet but it caught on fullstream. I remember watching the debates and seeing John Kerry wearing one, but not Bush.

Several weeks ago, I was shopping at the Ghetto Chopper when I saw another yellow bracelet. It was a "Support Our Troops" bracelet and wondered how it didn't conflict with the Livestrong bracelets. If there's a fanatical support of one type of cause, spinoffs must occur. It's like those infectious ribbons all over again. Here's the rundown of those bracelets:

• Red - "Hope Courage Bravery Endurance" - AIDS awareness, alcohol abuse awareness, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), Heart Disease and Lymphoma.


• Blue - "Think Autism Think Cure" - Autism


• Pink - "Believe" - Breastcancer


• Pink - "Hope Courage Bravery Endurance" - Breastcancer


• Pink - "Sharing the Promise" - Susan B. Komen Pink Breast Cancer Fund


• Mulitcolored - "Support Breast Cancer Research and Education"


• Pink and White - "Support Breast Cancer Research and Education"


• Yellow - LiveSTRONG - Cancer Awareness


• Red - "Band of Hope" - Multiple Sclerosis


• Green - "Hope Courage Bravery Endurance" - Organ Donation


• Teal - "Hope Courage Bravery Endurance" - Ovarian Cervical Cancer

Those are just the rundown of the major players in this bracelet movement. There are too many; there are camo patriotic ones, there are "Faith" religious ones, and there are friendship ones. I saw some that were neon coloured and I would perceive them as being a slap in the cause face with such statements as: "Attitude", "Drama Queen" "High Maintenance" "Social Butterfly", "Spoiled" and "Princess". Clearly, these are not causes but a pathetic fad taken several steps too far off a short pier.

The other night during my participation in television addiction, I saw a commercial for NOW (That's what I call music) vol. 18. Not only was I angered that this cd collection could continue to volume 18, but if you ordered then and spent too much money on the damn thing, you got a NOW bracelet. When infomercials start giving away these bracelets you know the fad has jumped the shark, because we all know that little Susie is going to get jumped in middle school for her trendy NOW bracelet (I should probably preface that statement with a note of sarcasm but I have too much faith in reading comprehension.)

I'm going to make a new bracelet called COCK - Cease Our Cause Kick. The bracelets will come in red, pink, purple, and multicolor. I'll even make t-shirts and bumperstickers blazen with their acronym.

02:43 PM

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Posted by: GroundZero at March 21, 2005 01:38 AM

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