As November has finally come to a close, we mark not only World AIDs day, but also the day where thousands of men across the world can finally shave their moustaches off. For those who don’t know it, Movember is a yearly event where moustaches are grown (with varying success) to raise awareness for issues related to men’s health, particularly regarding prostate cancer, the cancer most prevalent to men.
Sadly, it seems that nothing passes without controversy in this university – not even Movember. In the writings of one Cantab: “Here comes ‘Movember’, chance for every emasculated fucktard to prove they can just about spurt bumluff for ‘charity’,” before adding: “Benevolent paedos.”
It is easy to criticise from the armchair. The comments above notwithstanding, there are some fair criticisms of Movember, the most evident being that not everyone can grow a moustache, or that the focus seems to be exclusively on men’s health. This didn’t, however, stop Hannah Robbins and Maddy Lawson from starting their own initiative, for their own charity. They called it ‘Moovember’, and they donned cow costumes every day for every £30 raised. Hannah and Maddy raised £1,588 (which puts our £517 to shame!), money which will go to fund several projects in school in Nepal.
If some feel alienated by Movember, this is a shame, but initiative-taking such as ‘Moovember’ never detracts, but only helps. Movember should extend beyond just moustached men. In light of this, the charity that we invite you to donate to this year is the Institute for Cancer Research, which conducts work towards better health for us all.
Any donations to Juan and his friends at Kings‘ or Hannah and Maddy’s Moovember would be much appreciated.
Photography by Raphael Scheps
These photos make me want to vom.
Yours etc.,
Peter.
Dear Juan,
Next year, please wear chaps.
Yours etc.
Danv.
It amazes me how seriously you guys take the Tab.
Juan you are a massive twat. I even missed U21s training to post this!
The real TPJ would never do a thing like that.
for once it's funny.
I don't know why people are complaining that "the focus seems to be exclusively on men’s health" as it raises awareness for prostate cancer. Did they complain that the breast cancer campaign is only for women? To be honest I don't think 'movember' has had much publicity.
men can get breast cancer you absolute idiot, and in fact die from it.
Yes but less than 1% of breast cancer cases are in men but the point I was trying to make is pretty clear. The breast cancer campaign is just an example. There are charities that are only for women.
I dont think you could find anyone in Cambridge I could care less about what they thought about anything.
Movember I am happy to read about, but please can this grotty little man just piss off!
The point is to raise money for prostate/testicular cancer. I strongly suspect that charities that work on these cancers receive less than others, which is why something like Movember is so important. Why should we not donate to them just because they are biased towards men? 'anon' has it spot on.
Is niiiiiiiiiiice!
Juan is in exactly the same pose in each picture. Blatantly just a cardboard cut-out.
Relax, it's me taking the piss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D519hT7-ytY
Shut up Juan
To all the bigoted idiots out there condemning his photos, I didn't see you guys fishing £517 out of your pockets to match what they made. Why can't you focus on the good part? Raising money for charity requires an incentive to get people to sponsor you, and these guys chose growing (ridiculous) facial hair as theirs. I'd rather that than wear a cow costume around Cambridge. Well done to both Juan and Hannah/Maddy
Well said – also, Juan sent in 20 photos, most of his friends and not himself. It was the editor who made the decision to only use photos of Juan.
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2011 was the first time that I had encountered "Movember". It is great to see some men's health charities getting some attention (although not very much, admittedly), as the health charities that seem to attract most publcity are (as was indicated above) those concerned with breast cancer in women. Prostate cancer is a serious problem, and is much less in people's minds than is breast cancer. I really cannot understand the mentality of anybody complaining that "the focus seems to be exclusively on men’s health". Well done to anybody who participated in Movember and who raised awareness (and some money).