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The official gathering place for participants of Full Shave November (assuming anyone here is participating). 

 

For those of you not in the know, Full Shave November was born out of the more well-known "No Shave November", wherein people don't shave for the month of November to show support for cancer patients and raise donations and awareness. Here's a quote from the official website (no-shave.org) that sums it up really well.

 

 

 

The goal of No-Shave November is to grow awareness by embracing our hair, which many cancer patients lose, and letting it grow wild and free.  Donate the money you usually spend on shaving and grooming for a month to educate about cancer prevention, save lives, and aid those fighting the battle.

 

Although this is a great cause, and participating shouldn't be something to be mocked, many women receive negative commentary, backlash, and bullying for their attempts to participate, being told that not shaving will make them gross, un-hygenic, and undesirable, among other nasty things. This of course being a ridiculous double-standard, as men are expected to take pride in their body hair while women are taught to be ashamed of it.

 

Women continue to fight back against this utter nonsense by participating in No Shave November regardless of any nay-sayers, while some men have found an interesting way to show solidarity of their own. They shave all of the hair that women are normally expected to shave to show solidarity for both cancer awareness and gender equality. 

 

Naturally, this going against societal norms, it has gotten its own share of backlash. People think it "detracts from raising cancer awareness". However, because I am the absolute queen of lists, I will give you five reasons right now why its actually great.

 

  1. Some people might feel that it is more respectful to shave hair for cancer awareness than to grow it
  2. Some people are made uncomfortable by not shaving. This provides them with another option
  3. You get to support two great causes all at once, and supporting one cause doesn't have to detract from another
  4. It makes women feel more comfortable with participating all-around, thus the entire event will grow
  5. A man with shaved legs stands out more than one with facial hair
  6. BONUS reason: the existence of full-shave november in and of itself has prompted a lot of people to find out what no-shave november was started for in the first place. Ironically, I've seen people arguing against this movement that openly admitted that they didn't even know that no-shave november had anything to do with cancer before they heard of its full-shave variant.

And as an extra defense, though the idea is to donate the money you "would have spent on shaving", the odds that anyone actually sits down and figures out how much they saved instead of just donating whatever they feel like giving is really really not likely at all. Donations will be the same regardless, and if you'd like you can just give something else up in exchange to raise money. 

 

I think that there is merit in showing support in both ways, and I think it's a good cause regardless of how you choose to embrace it. Personally, I haven't taken either side with my own body yet, while my (male) partner has just spent the past hour struggling to remove his leg hair. He's participating for the first time because facial hair always made him too uncomfortable to participate in the traditional way.

 

So, who else is jumping aboard this new movement, and how does the forum at large feel about such a thing? (keep it civil if discussion arises!)


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