Last week, Zoe of the comic strip Baby Blues asked for and got a pair of pink cowboy boots. She was so delighted with them that she even tried wearing them in the bathtub.
I had never even heard of pink cowboy boots until today. At UMD I saw a student wearing them.
Did Zoe get them because they had become popular, or did the student get them because Zoe got them?
My wife informed me that pink clothing had become popular in support of the fight against breast cancer. When I typed "breast cancer" and "pink ribbon" into Safari's Google panel, it suggested "breast cancer pink ribbon merchandise". Following through on that search, Google found over 512,000 items!
My wife said that some of these merchants contribute some of their proceeds to breast cancer causes.
What's that saying about Venus and Mars?
