Let's talk about colors…

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Maya Zankoul

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To all of you who did post the colours & details of their bras, no offense 🙂 It did add some spice and fun to Facebook – which has been getting boring after Twitter and all that jazz… But in my humble opinion, the campaign did not in any way raise awareness about cancer, it only got people discussing bra colors in flirty ways in the comments section.

Some interesting reads about the issue:

• http://www.bigfishmag.com/extra/blog/8/

• http://www.fakingnews.com/2010/01/thousands-of-voyeurs-spend-whole-day-thinking-about-bras/

• http://dmhatingfemisfromhell.blogspot.com/2010/01/im-wearing-silky-leopard-print-pushup.html

Enjoy, and before I leave you to your busy weeks, I’d like to dedicate a song by Lila Downs to you!

Agua de rosas:

Enjoy! 🙂

Comments

13 responses to “Let's talk about colors…”

  1. Bethany Avatar
    Bethany

    Totally! It was a social media campaign with no stated action to take…how’s that supposed to help cancer?!

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  2. Saad Al Dosari Avatar
    Saad Al Dosari

    I totally agree with you … I did not totally get the connection and even the provided explanation did not make a lot of sense.

    All in all, it is a definitely interesting case study about public understanding of awareness campaigns, words and pictures associations, and nonetheless, mental images!!

    Great post …
    Saad

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  4. shana Avatar
    shana

    dear Maya,

    although i might understand your view, i strongly believe that this campaign had the purpose to talk about breast cancer and not raise money or get to action..

    and it did reach it’s purpose, just by discussing if men think about boobs or cancer i think is a good start.. at least it made them talk about it..let us not always try to save the world with any campaign..it wasn’t the goal..if men and women know that 45000 women every year might not be able to wear any color of bra, they will think about breast cancer more often..

    love what u do btw

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  5. Wissam Avatar
    Wissam

    Great post!
    It looked more like a “social-flirting” campaign 😛

    More info on Mashable:
    http://mashable.com/2010/01/07/bra-color-facebook-status/

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  6. shana Avatar
    shana

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6954696/Facebook-bra-colour-status-update-craze-raising-breast-cancer-awareness.html

    more about the campaign
    (and sorry for the spelling mistakes in my previous post) 🙂

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  7. BigFishMag Avatar
    BigFishMag

    Unable To Contribute To The Facebook Bra Revolution, Colour Blind Woman Commits Suicide.
    http://www.bigfishmag.com/extra/blog/9/

    And thank you for classifying the previous entry as “interesting reads”. Much appreciated!

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  8. mir Avatar
    mir

    you are a girl and u couldn’t focus on the awarness part… perv 😛

    and you made my friend win our argument… it turned up it was raising awarness w shi teneh mush ra7 oulo 😛

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  9. Ossi Avatar
    Ossi

    Excellent post(s). I love your style, keep it up 🙂

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  10. Donitsa Avatar
    Donitsa

    mentioning Colors on girls facebook status was supposed to let everybody pay attention and ask why?
    mentionning that this is the bar’s color was not supposed to be known from everybody!!!! only girls!
    the objective is to let people pay attention and ask why!!! and the answer is: its a reminder to breast cancer awarness
    anyway it was a succsseful campaign…. it made almost everybody write or talk about it…regarding if they were with or not.

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    1. Riham Avatar
      Riham

      I don’t mean this in a bad way, but unless you learned a new fact about breast cancer that day, it was unsuccessful. It only got people to feel more comfortable to talk about their boobs in public rather than just in private. If anything, it was successful for breast awareness, but that’s it.

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  11. reine Avatar
    reine

    well it was turquoise mine 😛 and me and my friend made another game which was put the size of ur foot, and little the girl knew that the majority of the males knew that it was the bra color on their status

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  12. darinerachkidy Avatar
    darinerachkidy

    so if bra color aim for cancer awarness.. what can bra size do???

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