Drusilla advises Haymitch to be “naughty, not dangerous” like a university student who dyed the fountains pink.
“They’ll respond to a bad boy, not a rebel. You need to be naughty, not dangerous. For instance, last winter, one of the University students dyed all the fountains pink when there was a face cream shortage. So saucy! Everyone loved it!”
This is an obvious allusion to a common criticism of protestors, that they should be peaceful, not violent, seen but not heard, so to speak.
But beyond that, it has me wondering if the university student who dyed the fountains intended for it to be about face cream at all. Dyeing fountains red (or, when diluted, pink), is a common way to represent blood in a form of protest.
We know the capitol has complete control over the narrative daily life. In CF, one of Katniss’s prep team members explains she can’t get shrimp for a party because of the weather in District Four, when it’s actually the rebellion.
The prank and the victory tour both happened in winter. All eyes would be on the capitol. The university student was likely genuinely protesting the games, but the capitol recontextualized it into becoming a funny prank, and thus, that’s all it was.
If a meaning of protest isn’t clearly and immediately understood, the narrative of the action is the dominant party’s to write.
The propaganda and public opinion machine completely erased the point of their poster, just like Haymitch’s.
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