Movember: it’s a cis man’s world

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Movember: it's a cis man's world
Bird of Paradox
08 November, 2010


http://www.birdofparadox.net/blog/?p=8924 🔗


I had this post written and ready to go last week, but bottled out at the last minute because it talks about prostate cancer and, given the amount of scorn poured over my head last time I wrote about that, I really didn't fancy going through it all again. But having read this post (the sentiments of which I'm actually in agreement with) over at TFW, wherein one of the commenters has just drawn parallels between the breast cancer awareness campaign and the current prostate cancer awareness campaign – and, like the prostate cancer awareness campaign, has effortlessly and completely managed to erase TS/TG women. So, being in a particularly bloody mood today, I say ->-bleeped-<- it, here it is:

Apparently this month, which for my entire life I've known as November, has been rebranded as "Movember" in some parts of Planet Cis. As you might perhaps expect, there's a website about it, and it tells me: