Movember. What about a female version

[bachsingingmum]

I'm just looking at a load of photos of men from work who've grown moustaches to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer and wondered if we could come up with something similarly positive for women.

AIBU to suggest growing pubic hair? Neat trimming/shaping allowed of course (like the moustaches). Suggestions welcome for what you'd call it (Fuzzy February/Mufty March?); and which charity/cause it would be to support. Sadly I doubt photos on the work intranet would be appropriate though

My personal view on which no doubt half of Mumsnet will say IABU, we could revert to the normal of a generation ago when virtually no-one got rid of their pubic hair, if we'd thought about it at all (which we didn't) it would have been thought very odd, and men weren't afraid of it.

Fanuary ?

Doing something that generally nobody else can see isn't really going to raise awareness

It's a lot less appropriate to talk about your pubic hair than your facial hair.
You said yourself "I'm just looking at a load of photos of men from work who've grown moustaches" - so the equivalent would be looking at a load of genitalia?

@Thisisworsethananticpated

Januhairy is a thing

@Thisisworsethananticpated

Fanuary ?

Not only was this genius, it was the first response, so the timing for my internal reading voice couldn't have been better. I now remain, as ever, your most obedient servant. I'm properly laughing.

Fannyhairy

@Thisisworsethananticpated

Fanuary ?

Fantastic. Simply fantastic.

I think going around showing people your progress would generally be frowned upon!

Fanuary has been a thing in some circles for a while, but I believe rather than raising sponsorship, some salons donated a proposition of their income from waxes etc to female cancer charities.

The first response to your thread was so perfect and well executed, it renders any other responses redundant.

Isn’t lack of female hair removal just called “winter”? 😂

It seems to be more the norm for men to cultivate their facial hair than not these days so 'Movember' has lost any point it may once have had.

Personally I'd rather just give to charity than have to hear people boring on about what they've done with their pubes.

I look forward to those work emails.

Susan from accounting is growing out her pubes, support her justgiving page here.

Wovember. I might draw on a different moustache every day next year.

Australia has Frocktober in October for ovarian cancer research. Wear a dress every day for a month.

Not sure advertising you’re not trimming your muff would go down well in the workplace!

On a separate note since i adopted
My own year round fanuary my vaginal health has been tip top

No more thrush , chafing, it’s superb
Pubes rock !

AIBU to suggest growing pubic hair?

Because that's not normal at all, is it.

@Thisisworsethananticpated

Fanuary ?

You're just being sexist. Who is suggesting I can't grow a perfectly good moustache if I put my mind to it?

How about pits or legs? Those would get past the social media photos police.

Pitember.

@Misopasta

I look forward to those work emails.

Susan from accounting is growing out her pubes, support her justgiving page here.

Love this. Goodness, I wasn't being serious folks! But some of those suggestions are great.

@LadyCatStark

Isn’t lack of female hair removal just called “winter”? 😂

Or common sense.

Vagember

Muffember