For the uninitiated, Movember is a charity initiative that sees men grow often ridiculous and unsightly moustaches for the purpose of raising funds for men's health causes - specifically prostate cancer.
It's a cool way to raise money and it's as simple as registering on the website, growing a moustache and collecting donations that are usually directly proportional to how ridiculous you look as the days of November whiz past.
As simple as the concept may be, there's just some people that don't seem to get it.
Every day I see some fellah proudly sporting his under-nose growth and trumpeting to the world how he's "doing it for prostate cancer". When I ask where I can donate a few bucks to his cause, I usually get that look from them like Bruce Willis had at the end of the Sixth Sense when he realized he was dead for the whole flick *spoiler alert*.
"Huh? Donate? What do you mean?!? This moustache is doing all I need to do, man!"
Listen, I'm all for raising awareness of a cause - especially something as awful as prostate cancer - but if you're going to do it, do it right. You growing a moustache for a month is doing no more to help cancer research than my taking a dump is doing to help the homeless unless you're actually collecting donations.
Register, collect, and actually do something for the cause instead of walking around with your new Hulk Hogan 'stache and acting like you're Dr. Jonas Salk.
Your heart may be in the right place, but your head is in your ass.
This is just the masses doing what the masses do. Movember is the cool thing to do in November and it is a great cause but when it hits the masses you get a lot of douche bags who just do it because its cool and do not look into it further.
ReplyDeleteI have decided not to participate this year but have given donations to people who have set it up. I am not raising awareness but am contributing with my pocketbook. That and as long as it takes me to grow facial hair, i would had to have started growing mine in September. haha
I didnt realize this was an actual thing. the company I'm currently working for is having a contest for movember giving the weiners of 3 categories prizes but I dont recall info on donations to the actual cause I'll have to re-read the documents
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