What’s Up With MOvember!?
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Ladies embrace yourselves, barbers dig into your savings; yep, it’s that time of the year again where finding a handsome soft-faced/shaved man, shall prove to be a challenge, why you ask yourself? Well, basically a group of 30 bored Australian friends from Melbourne started the soon to be very popular trend, back in 2003, as an attempt to resuscitate old looks, both men and women joined in, and so the story begins.
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MOvember, as amusing as it is, has a deeper, humanitarian & charitable oriented cause behind it as well. Men across the globe – you will recognize them! -, are growing their beards and moustaches to raise awareness, funds and promote regular check-ups, for issues related to men’s health, such as that of prostate cancer, testicular cancer, depression and male suicide.
If wish to become a “MOBro, or MOSis” but you’re facial growing abilities are weak, we recommend you to try the magic of Google search “ Tips on how to grow a beard”. In the United Stated of America however, the Australian-English Movember, is believed to be a dubbed version of a US tradition, and although you may thinking “Pshh, this isn’t the first time the US has claimed ownership of something” well then, you’re right, but this claim is actually factual.
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During the mid-late 19th century, men across the US developed a fashion for growing moustaches and/or beards to protest the legal voting age, proving they were “real” men and no longer boys, gaining the title “Virgin Voters” or “Twenty Onesters”, and if you don’t believe it, you can enjoy reading the book titled “The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century”. Written by Jon Grinspan and published just this year.
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Whether you’re growing any form of facial hair this November or not, and whether its in support of changing voting laws in your country, in memory of the “Virgin Voters”, in support of the MOvembers and their quest to raise awareness for crucial men’s health issues, or if you’re simply feeling like looking as though you stepped out of a time machine just arriving from the 14th century, we wish you the best of luck on your quest!