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Zooey Deschanel
“He just grabbed me, he just took me, like he was a man and I was a woman.” -Jess on The New Girl. Stuff like this normalizes #rapeculture
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Movember
Movember. A time when men grow their moustaches to help raise awareness of men’s health issues.
Movember is a great cause, because as the website states (http://us.movember.com/), not enough men go to the doctors as frequently as they should.
This New York Times article does a very good job as explaining why that just might be the case: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/health/research/18patt.html?_r=0
Traditionally, men are supposed to be stoic, tough, and not feel pain, so going to the doctor’s for many men is a sign of weakness; it is “unmanly”.
However, when I mentioned this idea to some men, I got serious backlash. They became offended that I was taking the spotlight off “Movember” and putting it onto a “critique of gender roles”. Does this make sense to you? Because it does not to me.
I was told that Movember isn’t about critiquing gender roles, but “celebrating manhood” (because apparently men are often denied the chance to celebrate their masculinity on a daily basis, all the time, everywhere.)
(Allow me to also point out that men’s bodies were the only bodies that were studied in science and medicine for years and years and years. Women had to fight to get their health issues recognized. And oh yeah, we live in a man’s world.)
I find this contradictive. Isn’t the traditional sense of “manhood” a sole reason many men avoid going to the doctor’s? So yes, celebrating a NEW kind of manhood that is not so rigid and unrealistic, would be awesome - and that is what critiquing gender roles is all about! So, I’m a bit dumbfounded when I am told that critiquing gender roles has nothing to do with Movember.
