How is the color pink the symbol of breast cancer awareness? And when did it originate?
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Pink is usually associated with females and mostly females are the ones to get breast cancer.
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i htink because it is sterotypicallly a girly color when a baby is born, they give it a pink blanket girls are symbolized with pink so the two are associated because they represent women uniting
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its feminine
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Pink ribbons have been the symbol of the fight against breast cancer since 1993. In 1993 Evelyn Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of the Estée Lauder Companies founded the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, making the Pink Ribbon its symbol. With that, the color pink became the color, as well.
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Well, the way I see it is Breast cancer is cancer of the breasts, a female body part Pink is a feminine color It goes hand in hand, doesn't it? But that's just my thinking, there could be a better totally different reason for it.
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The first color ribbon chosen for breast cancer was not pink it was a peach color. Pink was chosen for its marketablity by a cosmetic company and had little to do with feminism. The colored ribbons cropped up around the time of Desert Storm and were linked to the song, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the ole oak tree". Lotsa people tied yellow ribbons around trees to remember our troops overseas. The ribbon symbol than extended to those people fighting AIDS. People wore a tiny red ribbon in remembrance for those fighting or dying from the disease. At the time women wanted to focus more research for breast cancer. Pink was not the first color chosen at all, but it had better marketing capabilities. The pink colored ribbon was chosen by a cosmetic company (Estee Lauder) that wanted to sponsor breast cancer awareness. The person who originally came up with the concept of the peach colored ribbon Charlotte Hayley. Estee Lauder Cosmetics wanted to use her ribbon but she thought they were too commercial (which is true). When Hayley rejected the offer Esteen Lauder went ahead with a pink ribbon that became the symbol for breast cancer.
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