I still don't do ribbon campaigns.
Jun. 21st, 2007 01:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarSo on one of the various forums that I frequent, people are already talking about what a great wonderful thing "pagan awareness days" are and reminding people to wear their purple ribbons...now, this occurs in September.
Ribbon campaigns in general just grate on my nerves. When I was in elementary school, I remember having red ribbon week. This was for drug awareness. Somewhere along the line, the red ribbon also started to symbolize AIDS awareness. Then there's the "support our troops" yellow ribbon. And the breast cancer pink ribbon...
According to this site http://www.gargaro.com/ribbons.html green ribbons are for leukemia, free market internet, organ donors, truck driver abuse (truck driver abuse???), alien free speech, liberty round table, freedom for Irish political prisoners, find missing children, addiction to genealogy, hemp for all, and who knows what else...
Back when there were only a few ribbon campaigns, you might see someone with a ribbon and could take a reasonable guess as to what it meant. Today, I could wear a green ribbon in effort to raise awareness for organ donors...but someone else light see it and thank that I'm addicted to genealogy or protesting truck driver abuse. At this point, why not just make up little badges that say "become an organ donor" or "fight truck driver abuse"...it would be a lot less ambiguous, and people wouldn't end up inadvertently supporting the stop hating Leonardo DiCaprio movement or the fight to ban the command.
That aside, what really bugs me about this one is that no one seems to know what it's actually standing for. They're calling it "pagan awareness"...to let the world know that there are pagans out there. But there have been a lot of people who have promoted it as some sort of secret code (wear a purple ribbon so we know who the other pagans are without having to ask and can go around feeling smug and superior!), promoting religious freedom (okay, then why isn't it called "religious freedom awareness day"?) and well, "pagan awareness day"- tell everyone you're a pagan. Either that, or that you support draconic equality. Take your pick.
(Seriously, these are all things that I found while googling for ribbon campaigns. I did not make any of them up. I'm sure osme of them are humorous, but they were there. )
Ribbon campaigns in general just grate on my nerves. When I was in elementary school, I remember having red ribbon week. This was for drug awareness. Somewhere along the line, the red ribbon also started to symbolize AIDS awareness. Then there's the "support our troops" yellow ribbon. And the breast cancer pink ribbon...
According to this site http://www.gargaro.com/ribbons.html green ribbons are for leukemia, free market internet, organ donors, truck driver abuse (truck driver abuse???), alien free speech, liberty round table, freedom for Irish political prisoners, find missing children, addiction to genealogy, hemp for all, and who knows what else...
Back when there were only a few ribbon campaigns, you might see someone with a ribbon and could take a reasonable guess as to what it meant. Today, I could wear a green ribbon in effort to raise awareness for organ donors...but someone else light see it and thank that I'm addicted to genealogy or protesting truck driver abuse. At this point, why not just make up little badges that say "become an organ donor" or "fight truck driver abuse"...it would be a lot less ambiguous, and people wouldn't end up inadvertently supporting the stop hating Leonardo DiCaprio movement or the fight to ban the command.
That aside, what really bugs me about this one is that no one seems to know what it's actually standing for. They're calling it "pagan awareness"...to let the world know that there are pagans out there. But there have been a lot of people who have promoted it as some sort of secret code (wear a purple ribbon so we know who the other pagans are without having to ask and can go around feeling smug and superior!), promoting religious freedom (okay, then why isn't it called "religious freedom awareness day"?) and well, "pagan awareness day"- tell everyone you're a pagan. Either that, or that you support draconic equality. Take your pick.
(Seriously, these are all things that I found while googling for ribbon campaigns. I did not make any of them up. I'm sure osme of them are humorous, but they were there. )
