"Sides of March" in Voices Windward

Sooooo “Movemeber” had us thinking about male suicide by growing moustaches right? Now CALM are going to be raising the same awareness with sideburns in the “Sides of March”.... Why are we pretending that facial hair is a orange poncho and will stop the blues?

Seriously tho, I really we would stop patronising people with the “having a laugh” means of mental health campaigning, it’s equal to “check ya balls mate” campaigns for testicular cancer…

We’re socialised not to talk and converse about “weakness” sure, but telling us that we can only do so via some arbitary pseudo comical gesture is just fucking dumb and offensive.

Yes… I know the world we live in… it WILL get some bloke to talk… It will raise awarness and help the conversation… but so does twenty peeps on pickets asking you to sign a petition outside the bank.

Question the humour and be told your a bore, asking for your health to be treated with some seriousness shouldn’t be a sin… Imagine if we had Armpit April for post natal depression… moan moan gripe gripe bah humbug … can’t we have a less reactionary campaign too? like Soul Patches for Happy Times where you grow a soul patch and for every comment, you do something good for someone… or something.