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Movember declared ‘sexist, racist, transphobic’ at Canada’s sorry imitation of Harvard
Daily Caller ^ | 10/27/15 | Eric Owens

Posted on 10/28/2015 3:04:14 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

The health and education editor of the student newspaper at one of Canada’s most prestigious universities has advised the world that Movember — the month-long pledge by men to grow hair above the upper lip to support men’s health awareness — is “sexist, racist, transphobic, and misinformed.”

In his 1,120-word essay in The McGill Daily, Ralph Haddad calls “the idea of suggesting that men show solidarity with each other by growing moustaches” to raise awareness about prostate cancer and other issues “completely absurd.”

“Moustache” is the over-lettered Canadian spelling of the word mustache, by the way. And McGill is generally ranked with the University of Toronto as among the best universities in the world.

Haddad’s complaints about Movember are many. To begin with, he says, the concept discriminates against transgender people by linking masculinity “to secondary male characteristics, including having a prostate” and the ability to grow facial hair.

“To be completely clear, you don’t have to be a man to have a prostate, and you don’t have to have a prostate to be a man,” Haddad proclaims.

The English and cultural studies major argues that Movember “implies an archaic view of gender that implies that only a male/female gender binary exists, and that you aren’t really a man if you don’t necessarily identify with that binary.”

He asks: “How are people who do not identify with that binary and have a prostate supposed to partake in this cause?”

Haddad claims Movember is also racist because black males are “twice as likely to develop” prostate cancer than white males yet most people celebrating Movember are white. Somehow, this is apparently racist.

Movember is also sexist, according to Haddad. After lamenting a bunch of unlinked, unembedded tweets which allegedly chastise women for wanting to grow leg and pubic hair to celebrate either Movember or No-Shave November (a competing thing, apparently), Haddad charges that the act of not shaving some hair “has been twisted into a misogynistic tool by its own users.

Finally, Haddad aggressively claims that “campaigns like Movember help perpetuate” micro-aggressions–which he defines as “interactions between people of different races, genders, sexualities, and cultures that represent small acts of non-physical violence.”

“Do some basic research, educate yourself on the issue, and think twice before growing a moustache this, or any other, November,” Haddad implores.


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: canada; cancerwarriorsping; education; movember; prostatecancer; whatahomo
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FTA: “To be completely clear, you don’t have to be a man to have a prostate, and you don’t have to have a prostate to be a man,” Haddad proclaims." Who is this a**hat, a Mengele wannabe? But with a name like HADDAD he strikes me as the sort who would shun Canadian bacon and Molsons. Besides using this twisted logic would uterine and ovarian cancer awareness also be transphobic?
And just what is TRANSPHOBIA, the fear of one of these?

Amazing how Burt Reynolds and Sally Fields managed pull off the make-out scene in the front seat of the Trans Am in Smokey and the Bandit.
1 posted on 10/28/2015 3:04:14 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

““sexist, racist, transphobic”

Who cares?!


2 posted on 10/28/2015 3:07:22 PM PDT by all the best
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To: Impala64ssa

The Left is afraid of men, especially white men, feeling a sense of solidarity with one another as MEN.


3 posted on 10/28/2015 3:12:18 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Grow a mustache... shave my head... wear pink. ..I’ve got a crazy idea, how about if you want to donate money to cancer, you just do it without me having to alter my body appearance to induce you to do it?
what kind of twisted logic has money, and says “I will give it to help others only if you will amuse me.”


4 posted on 10/28/2015 3:18:20 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Impala64ssa

In his 1,120-word essay in The McGill Daily, Ralph Haddad calls “the idea of suggesting that men show solidarity with each other by growing moustaches” to raise awareness about prostate cancer and other issues “completely absurd.”


So this must mean he’s against Women’s orgs cause they encourage solidarity among women...no more pink for breast cancer awareness then...


5 posted on 10/28/2015 3:18:30 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Impala64ssa

All because he can’t grow a mustache himself, so he thinks no man should be able to grow a mustache.


6 posted on 10/28/2015 3:18:47 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Impala64ssa

Remember when Canada used to have men?

Remember when America used to have men?


7 posted on 10/28/2015 3:19:24 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Impala64ssa
Haddad’s complaints about Movember are many. To begin with, he says, the concept discriminates against transgender people by linking masculinity “to secondary male characteristics, including having a prostate” and the ability to grow facial hair.

“To be completely clear, you don’t have to be a man to have a prostate, and you don’t have to have a prostate to be a man,” Haddad proclaims.

When did florid psychosis become so mainstream?

(I think this ... person ... needs an increase in it's meds.)

8 posted on 10/28/2015 3:20:32 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859))
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To: DesertRhino
Had a mustache for a few weeks in my 20s. One day, I was almost late for work cleaning it off after drinking out of my breakfast cup. I shaved it off the next morning and have never looked back.

You make a good point though. We've spent this whole month flying pink ribbons and nobody bellyached about anyone being ‘sexist, racist, transphobic’.

Get a life, whiners!

9 posted on 10/28/2015 3:25:32 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Impala64ssa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R79yYo2aOZs


10 posted on 10/28/2015 3:28:46 PM PDT by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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To: RginTN

I think that using pink for breast cancer awareness is racist because some titties are brown.

Breast cancer awareness should be a rainbow of flesh tones.

/s


11 posted on 10/28/2015 3:30:35 PM PDT by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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I just don’t like the idea of someone who will give money to cancer if I’ll dance like a monkey on a stick.
And when I watch NFL, I’m escaping life an hour or two. Maybe I don’t want to think about a dreaded disease.


12 posted on 10/28/2015 3:31:47 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: DesertRhino

Exactly.


13 posted on 10/28/2015 3:33:18 PM PDT by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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To: All

This doofus is more or less speaking into an empty echo chamber.

By the way, mustache is the under-lettered American version of moustache. Just so you know (a little humour never hurts right?) ... :)


14 posted on 10/28/2015 3:42:37 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Hey Vlad, was this what you meant by flexible?)
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To: Impala64ssa

Even when I was school age, I have always resisted collective campaigns. “Hey, lets all do a-b-c in solidarity with x-y-a!!” leaves me cold when it doesn’t leave me actively suspicious... who actually uses the word “solidarity” anyway, and if they do, do you really want to hang around them? Would you really want to know their opinion about anything knowing once they start they’ll never shut up about it? Would you invite them to anything knowing full well they’ll be thinking the whole time about how to get their hands into your wallet?

No thanks, I’ll think my own thoughts, walk my own walk, and grow my own whiskers.


15 posted on 10/28/2015 3:46:30 PM PDT by marron
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To: Jim from C-Town

“Remember when Canada used to have men?”


I certainly do! :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZa26_esLBE


16 posted on 10/28/2015 4:02:19 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Impala64ssa
— the month-long pledge by men to grow hair above the upper lip to support men’s health awareness — is “sexist, racist, transphobic, and misinformed.”

Wow, it must really suck to be him, and to be filled with so much paranoia, neurosis, obsessions,fear,anger,hatred, and delusions.

17 posted on 10/28/2015 4:16:15 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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And when I watch NFL, I’m escaping life an hour or two. Maybe I don’t want to think about a dreaded disease.

Never thought of it that way. You're right.

18 posted on 10/28/2015 4:39:02 PM PDT by Dartman (Canada 10/19/15 Santa Claus won.)
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To: kaehurowing

LOL! One of Monty Python’s best.


19 posted on 10/28/2015 4:40:59 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Dartman

Well FRiend, if you agree with me more than three times a day, please seek professional help!


20 posted on 10/28/2015 4:51:31 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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