My movember page is up and running! Anyone else doing this? If so, post up a pic.
If you don't know what Movember is about, let me fill you in. About 10 years ago, a bunch of Australians came up with an idea to raise awareness for prostate cancer: they would spend the entire month of November growing moustaches. Every time someone asked about the 'stache was an opportunity to get someone new thinking about the illness. Since then, it's spread, gone global, and last year raised almost 80 million dollars to fund prostate cancer research.
Why is this important? Well, as anyone who's seen NFL players playing with pink gloves knows, breast cancer research has a big campaign going behind it, and rightly so. Unfortunately, other forms of cancer don't always get on people's radar. So here are the facts.
You're on a website, and in a sport, that's predominantly male. More than likely, if you're reading this, you're a dude. You're also probably from the U.S. or Canada. Given that, if you live to see your 80th year, there is an 80% chance you will get prostate cancer.
Eighty. Fucking. Percent.
There are hundreds of thousands of new cases every year. On a scale that big it's hard to appreciate how big a deal this is, but it can get very real very fast when you realize how likely it is that you'll end up being a statistic. Even if you won't, if you're a girl or one of the lucky few, odds are you'll have a dad, a brother, a husband, who will. This is personal for everybody.
We don't know what causes it. A lot of people aren't aware, don't get themselves checked and don't know they have it until it's too late to effectively treat.
It's estimated that this year over 100 men in the U.S. and Canada will die of prostate cancer every day.
What can you do? Toss a couple of bucks towards research. If you can spare $10, great. If you're a destitute skier, toss in a fiver. Get your friends and parents do likewise. It adds up... especially since this is NS, and if we can buy a dude a pair of Bacons, we can sure as hell put together some cash for cancer research that'll contribute to finding treatments most of us on here will end up actually using somewhere down the line.
Doesn't matter who you donate to... I have a page, which I cannot link to here (site policy, which is why this is take 2 of this thread), but Voleurz is also running a campaign called Moleurz, which we posted a story about on the front page. Here is the week 2 update: https://www.newschoolers.com/readnews/4293.0/Team-Moleurz-Week-2-Update?c=all&o=2
Kick in a bit and get others to do likewise. You're basically donating to yourself.
