Movember: From the view of a mo-wife

In the event you've been living under a rock for the past 24 days, let's start with what all this "Movember" stuff is all about.
For the real deal check: http://ca.movember.com/
According to Wikipedia...

Movember (a portmanteau of the words 'moustache' and 'November') is an annual month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November. The event was conceived in 1999 by a group of Australian men from Adelaide.

Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men's health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Australia and New Zealand. In 2007, events were launched in Ireland, Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In 2010 it merged with the testicular cancer event Tacheback.

Alright, now we're all satisfied with what the deal is, right. Okay. Second thing to cover: I love facial hair. I think it's pretty fucking hot. For reals. This is a relatively new thing in my life, but I'm happy about the development. However, I don't believe this fact should really matter that much with what I have to say below since, although I love a nice beard or goatee, moustache's don't really turn my crank.

Here comes the real "blog"....
What the fuck is with people complaining about Movember? Complaining about "Movember" is similar to complaining about all the people wearing purple on Spirit Day (October 20) or the people driving around with a pink ribbon on their car in honour of breast cancer. Can you really complain about a charitable event??

There are the people complaining about it going on in general, in which case I have to say, what the hell do you really care if there are more people with moustaches for one month of the year? Is it really effecting your life? Does it some how alter your entire world?? No?? Then I don't see the problem that you have.

Then there are the people who are complaining because someone in their immediate life is growing a moustache this month. On the radio this morning one guy actually said that he didn't think his wife would "let" him grow a moustache for Movember. Let him??? For real?

I am happy and proud that my husband has chosen to (try and) grow a moustache this November. Does it look good? No, not really. Do I care if he looks silly for one month while drawing awareness to prostate cancer and raising money for research on it? Hell no.

Quite frankly, there isn't much I wouldn't "let" my husband do. If he wanted to shave his head for charity, go ahead. If he wanted to wear the same shirt for a month for charity, go ahead. If he wanted to do just about anything he wanted for charity, I'm pretty sure my answer would be "go ahead".

Movember is to bring about awareness about prostate cancer. Here's some awareness for you (straight from http://www.prostatecancer.ca/):

• The most common cancer among Canadian men - it will afflict 1 in 6 men and is a greater threat for those with a family history of the disease
• Often without symptoms in its earliest, most curable stage – making annual testing ever more important
• 24,600 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year alone (2010) (in Canada)
• 4,300 men will die of the disease this year (in Canada)
• Rates of prostate cancer in men are comparable to rates of breast cancer in women
• The disease has no symptoms in its earliest, most curable stage

Ladies (and gentleman), before you bitch again about moustaches and Movember, I have to wonder: would you rather see clean shaven guys this month or see your husband, boyfriend, dad, brother, friend or son having a harder battling against prostate cancer because they were less aware and there was less research being funded through charity? Perhaps we should all be a little bit more supportive of the "battle" they're fighting this Movember instead.