Silicone Awareness Bracelets Are More Than Just A Fashion Statement

Almost every person has seen the thin silicone or jelly like bracelets. They're made of silicone, an uncostly flexible rubber like material and are a major fashion statement with the middle school or early teen group. These small bracelets come in all colors with many identified with exact diseases or public causes.

Like ribbons, many of these jelly like bracelets have come to be synonymous with exact diseases like pink for breast cancer or yellow for supporting the military. Although the intent is to call attention to a inevitable cause or disease, as the amount of colors has grown so has the ability of many to plainly ignore the statement. It was easy to understand the statement and many citizen continue to join together a yellow ribbon with supporting the forces or pink for breast cancer. But how about "lime green" or "blue"?

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The growth in the interest for these bracelets is de facto more a fashion than a public cause statement. plainly put, they're colorful, easy to care for, cheap and the kids like them! They're no big deal as the cost is so small that having lots or losing them all doesn't de facto matter. For about 2 bucks, you can get almost any color and with larger orders, the cost goes down even more. This makes the silicone awareness bracelets an keen fund raising goods for many schools and non behalf organizations.

Recently, some middle schools have banned these colorful adornments as rumor has it they were used as part of a game called snap. The idea of snap was if a someone was able to break the bracelet, the wearer was somehow obligated to achieve a sexual act on the one who broke the bracelet. Most rational citizen who think about this can see there's some serious issues with banning jewelry because of a claimed game.

First there's the fact that these jelly bracelets are worn by many who would never think playing any such sexually expensed game. Second, the supposed benefactor destroys someones underground asset and is somehow entitled to sexual benefits? Does this sound as if schools who ban these bracelets over reacted? In a word, yes! In reality, few kids probably were de facto playing the game. The best selection would have been for the school officials to hold whatever who broke or damaged someone else's asset to replace the damaged bracelet and be expensed a fine. This would have allowed the great majority of kids who find wearing these awareness bracelets a fun fashion accessory to continue to do so, while also placing limits on the inappropriate behavior of a few.

The reality is that although the news reports may have led you to believe this was the purpose of these bracelets, the actuality is that reporting sensationalism took this all out of proportion and marred an otherwise cheap fun accessory for the rest of us.