Let No Shave November...

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also this thread reminded me to shave

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...wait... people don't know its for cancer awareness?
(I'm actually serious)

I mean it's cool by me if you don't DO it for cancer awareness, but I am surprised people didn't even know the meaning behind movember.

I've been doing it since High-School, had a friend's dad pass from it. Kinda big for my friends and I, so it's a good reminder and whatnot.

At-least its better then breast cancer awareness month, where I shaved my head bald for it -.-' never again. Raised a lot of money though lol

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+1

Also, yeah, Xiz. As much as the intent is cancer awareness, the message got misconstrued somewhere along the line and a lot of people are pretty clueless.

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This (Oct 31). Although, most people grow the beard it takes me to grow in 2 weeks in 2 days.. so I'm not exactly expecting to go into hobo mode by December.

I'd also like to point out that I think wild odd-spot facial hair is sexy ;D. When it gets past a certain length tho, it stops being sexy :/

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my girlfriend has a beard

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Syhto you should post your nasty unshaven legs at the end of the month.

My department at work wants to do a movember but moustaches look awful on me, so I'll pass.

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pretty much this. I don't care if it's more healthy for me to do certain things to break habits etc, but I just want to pull a "challenge accepted" month here. Definitely switching Soda for Water is another one I should do.

lol

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I'm doing it for the hell of it. Didn't know it was for awareness, either.

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I forgot to shave on the 31st of October lol.

My Movember started on Halloween XD

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Is there a backstory on how/why this is to raise cancer awareness?

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Izzy, I would think that it has to do with how chemotherapy and radiation treatments tend to be nasty enough that cancer victims often end up losing their hair. By growing the most manly mustaches possible, these people seek to raise awareness for men's health issues, namely prostate and testicular cancer.

It's not unlike how it's on the heels of October's breast cancer awareness, when you think about it.

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Sure why not

shaved like 3 days ago too

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I like to think that Syhto writes messages and deletes them so it's a private little conversation just for us <3

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It seems like it would make more sense to shave everything as opposed to shaving nothing then.

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Ah, but to be bald and clean-shaven is a style that some guys actually want, or is in style, so it doesn't quite have that same sort of 'I feel your pain' of someone who forcibly lost their hair as growing a very untrendy, unflattering moustache. The point I think was/is to...look unattractive as the best way to acknowledge what someone with cancer has to go through, at least on a outward, visual level. Although I suppose moustaches are kinda making a comeback these days (very slowly, but you see people outside movember sporting them more often than you used to), but when I first heard of movember, moustaches were the absolute last style anyone who followed trends at all would choose to sport.

I can see being clean shaven for food service, or something else where having a beard would be hazardous or something. But even then, a hairnet for your beard would work for most jobs I'd imagine.

I worked at UPS a couple years back, and I upset my boss when we had finished training and I heard for the first time that guys weren't allowed to wear beards and I was like 'What? You don't allow guys to have beards?' Of course I wasn't told because I'm not a man, and the men who were hired were all ok with it. But dress code was pretty strict there for women too. At that job, sitting at a desk, the no beards policy seems really, really old-fashioned and really repressive. It feels like an equivalent in that setting, when applied to women, would be that I couldn't have short hair or maybe couldn't wear it up unless it were in a fancy bun or something. Completely absurd, really. A scraggly, unkempt beard is one thing, but looking unkempt in general is really a separate issue.

My bf hadn't known about movember until this year when a memo was sent around his office about it, and there was nothing at all about prostrate cancer in the memo. (Although I dunno how he could not have known from last year when one of his good friends sported a pornstar stache the entire month.)