Posted on 10/28/2015 3:04:14 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The health and education editor of the student newspaper at one of Canadas most prestigious universities has advised the world that Movember the month-long pledge by men to grow hair above the upper lip to support mens 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.
Haddads 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 dont have to be a man to have a prostate, and you dont 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 arent really a man if you dont 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-aggressionswhich 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.
“sexist, racist, transphobic”
Who cares?!
The Left is afraid of men, especially white men, feeling a sense of solidarity with one another as MEN.
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.”
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...
All because he can’t grow a mustache himself, so he thinks no man should be able to grow a mustache.
Remember when Canada used to have men?
Remember when America used to have men?
To be completely clear, you dont have to be a man to have a prostate, and you dont 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.)
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!
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
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.
Exactly.
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?) ... :)
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.
“Remember when Canada used to have men?”
I certainly do! :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZa26_esLBE
Wow, it must really suck to be him, and to be filled with so much paranoia, neurosis, obsessions,fear,anger,hatred, and delusions.
Never thought of it that way. You're right.
LOL! One of Monty Python’s best.
Well FRiend, if you agree with me more than three times a day, please seek professional help!
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