Meaningful mustache: the messages behind cultivating facial scruff — The Bowdoin Orient
I can think of no better time than the middle of Movember to reflect on the mustache. Using the mustache as a symbol of men’s health awareness is really kind of a brilliant marketing move, as those things go: it’s the most homegrown, hairiest and distinctive of all those wonderful ribbons for various health concerns. So in recent years, and not without historical precedent, the moustache has come to symbolize health. But the mustache, the thing itself, means so much more to us. It will never be, nor never can be purely a statement of advocacy. The mustache is complicated. I am a little troubled—I think only a little—with the idea that virility and hyper-masculinity (which are also tied up...