Posted on 12/02/2013 9:45:28 AM PST by chessplayer
Poor Matt Lauer and Al Roker: they spent November growing out beards on NBC for “Movember,” to promote men's health, but the British magazine New Statesman has announced “Movember is divisive, gender normative, racist and ineffective against some very real health issues.”
RedState’s Erick Erickson tweeted “You cannot parody the left. You just can't. You may think it is parody, but damned if they don't one up you.” Apparently moustaches are for minorities:
So what message does Movember convey to those whose moustaches are more-or-less permanent features? With large numbers of minority-ethnic men—for instance Kurds, Indians, Mexicans—sporting moustaches as a cultural or religious signifier, Movember reinforces the “othering” of “foreigners” by the generally clean-shaven, white majority. Imagine a charity event that required its participants to wear dreadlocks or a sari for one month to raise funds—it would rightly be seen as unforgivably racist.
Arianne Shahvisi writes it’s also unfair to “trans men” who can’t grow moustaches well:
Further, the inclusivity of Movember deserves examination. For one, only men (and even then, only some men) can grow a moustache. The decision to focus on the moustache to raise awareness of men's health issues might seem like an apposite one (though there's no obvious relationship between moustaches and cancers), but it reinforces the regressive idea that masculinity is about body chemistry rather than gender identity, and marginalises groups of men who may struggle to grow facial hair, such as trans-men.
She concludes:
One of the Movember mantras is: “Real men, growing real moustaches, talking about real issues”. The slogan is as misguided as its campaign: Movember is divisive and gender normative, not least because it centres on the notion that there is such a thing as a “real” man; it is racist, inasmuch as it steamrollers over the cultural significance of the moustache (and thereby ignores what the campaign means for the men who really have moustaches); and it is non-optimal, because it does not tackle—in fact it only compounds—the very real health issues that hurt the men we love.
But as ridiculous as they are they still rule our lives.
One mustachioed meanie here. Haven’t seen my upper lip since 1971, and I intend to keep it that way; untrimmed and in its full natural and curvaceous glory. Girlie men and malcontent skirts are free to just to step aside, or go off in a snit.
Well, at least you are a whitish Jewish male with a beard.
I’m basically evil incarnate.
My hair is brown, my soup strainer is white. Uh oh!
I don’t know: Chastity Bono has a pretty good beard.
are= aren’t
Oh yeah...my sister in law would beg to differ.
This is where the left will ultimately fail, they will ‘get in our face’ about so many things that we (I already have done this) as a majority, will say stick this up your puckered anal orifice and DIE! The more we do this the better and then we ignore all of the stupid PETA tricks and stop worrying about offending the most easily offended.
So lets get this straight, in one year, the Left wormed their way into the Boy Scouts, have tried to get the mental health profession to declare pedophelia as a “lifestyle” or “condition” that can be treated, integrated themselves into our military while “real men” that were pulled, had several professional athletes come out and announce they’re gay, have tried to sissify professional football, and now this crap?
I think I see a pattern here. I sort of feel like distributing Playboys in the gay district and tainting all the Preparation H with Ben Gay for some reason. I don’t know why though...: )
That was my first thought, too. They have already devalued a white man's life. The MSM always skews reporting against whites. Holder and Obama have encouraged black on white crime like the knock out game and polar bear hunting. How soon will it get even worse?
She concludes:
One of the Movember mantras is: “Real men, growing real moustaches, talking about real issues”.
the operative phrase is 'REAL MEN'. No matter what the freak who wrote this chooses to belive, 'trans men' are NOT 'real men'...period!
I don’t know: Chastity Bono has a pretty good beard.
So does Oamao but her name is Moochelle...: )
“For one, only men can grow a moustache.”
Obviously writer does not have a Sicilian grandmother.
“All the hair on my face is undocumented sideburns.”
You need a border fence near the ear.
What about pornstaches? Are they only sexist?
Words are gendered. People are sexed.
Applying grammatical categories to people is illogical and is meant to cause confusion.
The Ruling Elites don't want "real men" as citizens. They want genderless drones as subjects.
The System is specifically anti-male, anti-white, and anti-Christian and will promote anyone who is the same. Its the only way a malcontent like this insane writer can get a job shoveling out her pablum.
We have to regain control of the System and to do that we have to correctly identify who controls it now and remove them.
I hope they would deal with them like they did the beaver dam...lol
wait...doesn’t that mean the well-endowed females are discriminatory during breast cancer awareness month? (ducking)
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