I’ve made a film regarding men’s health and I hope to have it ready during November. The film was mostly made between 2002 –2004 and some things have changed for the better in the world since it was first conceived, Movember being one of them.
Movember is a very worthwhile enterprise supporting awareness and research into men’s cancers, specifically prostrate and testicular.
The amounts of money raised by this charity pales into insignificance when compared with the global efforts aimed at women’s health, but the funds raised by the campaign grows every year and it will only increase as male psychology continues to be nurtured.
Movember is fully inclusive, welcoming women to take part in events and to support their men. This is in stark contrast to the more common women-focused events that pointedly disallow men from taking part. This difference alone speaks volumes about the men’s movement and the honorable nature of men.
I will support awareness of men’s health by growing my moustache this month and perhaps you could give it a try as well.
I will look forward to seeing the film MWM…
I’m certainly up for the moustache growing event. I think it’s about time that men’s health got another, well deserved boost.
As I’m all too aware; women’s health gets much more than it’s fair share of support. Men get shafted when it comes to appropriate funding being distributed equally. Did I just say equally? What feminists were purporting to represent(Equal Treatment).
if feminists wanted equality, they would have called themselves EQUALISTS. But you see, feminism starts with FEM meaning only welfare for women at the cost of men. They want superiority under the sweet name of equalism.
@TheMogul
I know buddy…that’s the trouble with the written word. It’s difficult to pick up sarcastic tone.
That was English sarcasm! Lol
For this purpose, I had my last shave yesterday for the month to come. I participated last year, too. Women wear white clothes and pink ribbons to (over-)raise awareness about female breast cancer with public stands, ads in TV and print media everywhere etc. (white stands for purity. I fail to see a connection between purity and breast cancer, not to mention that in these times 98% of women who wear white with purity in mind are lieing), men have a more sincere, down to earth way.
Some valid points there…
What I’ve never comprehended is the fact that men can also suffer with breast cancer and it’s not really recognised. It would be interesting to find out how many actually do suffer with this condition.
It really makes me angry when the media, television, etc…is always promoting women’s issues above anything male. I was watching television just now and had to turn it off in disgust. Every single avenue women can infiltrate, they are allowed to do so.
There’s no sacred male only space these days and it’s beginning to piss me off.
You can’t even watch a fishing program without some inclusion of a female (So-called expert) these days. It drives me nuts!
Before too long I will give up television all together.
Well, we have a silly red nose day that’s gender neutral (which probably actually strips men of their gender) and a slut walk for whores/bitches/feminists who want to reduce the standard of proof in sex-related criminal accusations.
Nothing so far for men.
Movember is a fantastic idea.
And by growing a moustache, men (at long last) get a chance to distinguish themselves from women. Fantastic!
I’m telling you, feminist really hate men.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ULwog8jAss&feature=fvsr
At least men are original, thanks to Google for the support
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjRhqx2EaQs
Women get more government money spent on their health (by orders of magnitude) and more charity money is generated for them, yet they still want more. Unsurprising.
Movember. is very significant. It’s a fantastic idea to engage men. Try getting men to go to some major park in their underwear and run 5k for charity and the response will be low. But moustaches… genius.
I can’t believe that first video…Have they no decency whatsoever?
Do they have to jump on every bandwagon they see as opportunity. As if they don’t get enough awareness already. It sickens me to be honest.
Thanks to Google in that second video…that was a great thing.
Didn’t see the second vid. Yes, good on Google.
Regarding men’s rights, men’s health and men’s overall sense of their own psychology and needs; the sleeper has awakened.
Yes, it’s good to see MWM…
It’s true to say that an awakening is starting to happen, which is great to see.
But anyone who was blinkered to how inherently greedy the majority of modern women are, only needs to view that first video posted by MRA.
I watched them the other way round. Those tedious bints would have set me off into the wrong frame of mind for watching the men’s one! And look at the way that news show focused on copy-cat women when the innovators were the men.
Thanks to Googs for their open-mindedness and unwillingness to jump on any popular bandwagon.
@Blaise- Mine is the worst case. English is not my first language..too difficult to pick up english sarcasm!
Already growing mine. Last year it was an incredibly bad looking scruffy teenage moustache, I hope this years is equally appealing to my girlfriend.
I really like this movement, however have you seen the various ‘no shave november’ tweets and blogs? What the hell is ‘No shave vember’? So women are going to not shave their legs and underarms to support male cancer, that grand I guess. Would prefer a higer % of charity/government funding and research but sure not shaving your legs to garnish some attention during the one campaign a year for mens health is just as good.
Check out “Fanuary” above (first link from “MRA”). Good grief!
PS: Tom Sellek and Salvador Dali are becoming an icon for movember I personality like Sellek’s mustache, is epic I use a pic of him about movember.
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Yep. Selleck is The Man when it comes to the ‘tache.
I would like to point something out to folks before they immediately jump on the bandwagon.
I do not disagree that we, as men, do not focus so much on our own health as we should. We need to do so.
However, I’d like to address specifically why we don’t.
It’s because we are expected to see to our own health.
In another post, I said that Men are Leaders by Default. In any group dynamic, with very few exceptions (which only prove the rule), followers do not seem to care so much about the leader’s well-being. Often, the leader conveys upon himself special perks in order to enjoy being a leader, and this often helps to reinforce the status of being the leader among his subordinates. As one samurai warlord said, if you become daimyo, you must act like a daimyo.
It is the American and British motif of the quiet, strong male leader that has, in my opinion, hampered the well-being of the man in modern culture. Modern culture still, and always will, expect men to be leaders, but they want tough leaders. They don’t want leaders to be blubbering sissies. People respond to strength, and through our pop culture we’ve idealized that leader to be a man like, well, John Wayne or someone with a stiff upper lip, stern in the face of impending danger, with quiet resolve, talking only when necessary.
It’s a romantic view to be sure, but it’s there nonetheless.
It’s no crime or fault in a man to seek remedy for his own problems. In fact, it’s a strength. A leader must see to his own needs as well as those of his followers, and he has to appear healthy and strong at all times. In order to do that, he has to take the time he needs to accomplish that, and that requires a sacrifice.
As a former officer in the U.S. Army, I can say that during my time I had to have my uniform perfect at all times, I had to show up for work all the time, and I could never afford to be sick unless I was really very sick. My gear had to be perfect. My weapon was always clean, and there was no way I’d lose it. In other words, I had to be better than the men I was leading, because that’s what they expect whether I like it or not.
Ignorance of our health is also a cultural thing, no doubt, but we can easily remedy that. A weak leader is no leader, guys.
The thing is, whatever the expectation others have of what men are, or what men should do to take care of their health, the fact is that men don’t do it. I’m not sure what else is of importance in the analysis of the problem.
In the Health film there’s a doctor who admits that even with his own knowledge of the problems with men’s attitude to their own health, he himself does not take active steps in this regard. Men have no focus on themselves and their own needs, it’s always about other people. This is useful for society, but it’s detrimental to the man himself. Being a well-respected leader and yet dying at 55 due to preventable ill-health, is not something I think is the way it should be.
As for jumping on the Movember bandwagon, well, there is no real bandwagon to speak of, relatively speaking. I’m not aware of any other significant men’s health campaign, anywhere, probably because no others have hit the spot regarding getting men involved and aware. It is a fantastic and much needed move forward for the re-huminisation of men.
Update, on this facial hair growing event: “It’s itching like a bast..d!
All worth it though…be interesting to see how it turns out after the month.
This is a bit old but it is good to have saved in case fe health try to push men into supporting breast cancer.
http://www.midlandsconnect.com/news/story.aspx?id=648330#.TtGIEbhK0Y9
To make matters worse, Raymond doesn’t have insurance. He works laying tile and says he just doesn’t make enough money. So a patient advocate from the Charleston Cancer Center tried to help. She found a state program that provides medicaid for breast cancer patients and applied. But Raymond was denied.
Why? Because he’s a man.