Pink?

With it being October (though not for much longer; this post might be considered a bit late), and thus Breast Cancer Awareness month, I am hearing the word "pink" and seeing said color a bit more than normal. It has me thinking some things. (Not things I think a lot of people could follow, but, what do I know?).

First of all.... why pink? I do not understand it at all.
I... think.... it's something like...
Pink = "woman's color", breast cancer = "mostly woman's problem", therefore "Awareness ribbons/items" = pink pink pink.
Well, that's the gist I got out of my mom's explaination when I said "But why pink?".
But. But but but. This, this.... just.... no. It does not make sense to me, at all.

Why. Why is pink considered to, (lets be honest), be not just a "woman's color", but the "woman's color"? (Just like blue, in the end, is supposed to be the "man's color".).
I am female. I -hate- the color pink, as a whole. There are the few shades of pink I can see and say "Wow. That isn't absolutly terrible. It's.. well, it's -okay-.". Whereas blue I find to be a decent color overall.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. (and I'm sure there are also men out there who feel pink is a neat color and that blue sucks.).
And.
So. Why...? Pink, is a color. I am not seeing what it has to do with female. Color is a color is a color. Color is not a gender, not a sex.
There are men who like pink. There are men who wear pink. Some may not identify as men, but others do and still wear pink, and it doesn't magically turn them into a female. Ditto for ladies and liking/wearing blue.

And, then. Men. Men can get breast cancer, too. It's not as common... but it does in fact happen. It's just as much a tradgety when it happens to a male as it is when it happens to a female.
So. Why should it be a "woman's color"? When I see awareness commercials, I do not see men. It's always woman. "Sisters, mothers", that stuff.
And I find myself wondering and thinking..... "How many people actually know that men can get it too? How often does that fact even get talked about?". And the "woman's color" everywhere, the female faces on TV commercials, and "How often.... do men with breast cancer... even get noticed; get considered?".
It.... it seems to me, like.... pushing them into the background. That they don't exist. Rather like.... autistic females and/or adults.




And then there is the whole factor; the train of thought about the "awareness" bit. Not that this is the first time these thoughts have crossed my mind, no, not with all the autism "awareness" stuff.

A pink bar of soap. I had a shower today with a pink bar of soap. I didn't like the color, but the smell was different, and I liked it, sort of. It smelt kinda like baby powder.
I was washing with a pink bar of soap, and I remembered why the bar I was using was pink (and not white like it usally is.). I remembered, but I thought "What does this mean? What does this.... do? It's a bar of pink soap. There is a pink poof. I hate pink, but it's soap, it works, I can get clean with it. But..... what is the point? Not the point of getting clean, but the point of the pink. The 'Awareness'. I do not understand. It gets me clean, but nothing else. A ribbon is a pretty trinket, but in the end, nothing else. A bar of pink soap, a pink ribbon, do not tell people anything. They do not talk to you about breast cancer. And breast cancer, is already pretty well known about. I am aware that it exists, but not because of pink items...".
I can, maybe, understand awareness for things that are not that well known about; and/or things that aren't understood that well. But when it's already pretty well known about, and people know what it -is-..... what is the point? What is this "awareness"? Just making everything pink? Wearing ribbons?
This isn't doing anything.
I do not understand any of this at all...