Last year, I wrote a satirical article for Leacock’s about how discriminatory Movember is.

This year, the McGill Daily published a serious article about how discriminatory Movember is.

Below, I have compiled a list of quotes–half of them are from my satire, the other half are from the serious Daily. Try and see if you can tell which are satire, and which are real.



When the game is completed, I have linked to both articles so you can read them for yourself.

ON MOVEMBER’S GOALS The pure and charitable sentiment is there – raising money for prostate and testicular cancer research, and fighting mental health problems among men – but what once started out as a harmless campaign has become sexist, racist, transphobic, and misinformed. McGill Daily Satire They have created a month-long event where they can spout their hate speech, while the general population are forced to tolerate–and even support–their unabashed bigotry. McGill Daily Satire The methods and aims of Movember are inherently discriminatory. By promoting moustaches, they oppress those who are facially disadvantaged or different. This is bigotry on multiple levels. McGill Daily Satire Despite Movember claiming to be a global movement, it assumes privilege and a certain relation to class on behalf of the participant, which is only found in certain parts of the world. McGill Daily Satire ON RACE Black males are also twice as likely to develop, and die with or from, prostate cancer than white males. This begs the question: who are all these white cisgender men fundraising and growing moustaches for? McGill Daily Satire You might have heard the myth that Native Americans are unable to grow facial hair. If you were not born with the Moustache gene, you are punished. McGill Daily Satire ON GENDER No wonder Movember is exclusionary to trans* people: how are people who do not identify with that binary and have a prostate supposed to partake in this cause? McGill Daily Satire Indeed, the very name “mo bro” is sexist. Why not something gender-neutral, like “Mo sapiens”? It’s a small step from calling yourself a “mo bro” to calling everyone else “van dykes”. McGill Daily Satire ON SEX Movember is also misogynistic. Women have a harder time growing facial hair. Even those who succeed in this patriarchal slave system are mocked; bearded women are seen as freaks. McGill Daily Satire Movember is also sexist. Cisgender women, called “Mo Sistas,” are encouraged to help their “Mo Bros” raise money during November, but god forbid these women try to let their own body or facial hair grow in support of this campaign. McGill Daily Satire ON MASCULINE IDENTITY “I don’t want to be told that a moustache makes me a man, or that my identity depends upon shaming women into being presentable to the male gaze.” McGill Daily Satire A moustache is basically the penis of your face. Your masculinity and virility is being judged on the size of it. McGill Daily Satire WILD CARD Do some basic research, educate yourself on the issue, and think twice before growing a moustache this, or any other, November. McGill Daily Satire Down with Movember, and down with social injustice. McGill Daily Satire

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If you were too lazy to play the game, you can simply read the original McGill Daily serious article, “Movember as micro-aggression”

And here is my Leacock’s satire article, “Down with Movember” (or you can read the same article on my blog)

I also wrote about the Daily’s increasingly controversial articles as a strategy to gain page views in “Controversial McGill”

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