Times Honours Movember

All the ladies in the house, have you sported a lot of the menfolk around you spouting hair on their upper lip? Men are you starting to get to that irritating scratchiness stage? Yes it is day 4 of Movember a month, formerly known as November, when men all around are growing a moustache to raise awareness and funds for Prostate Cancer.

Well today to mark the occasion The Times has listed the top 25 Moustaches in pop music, check out the full list here. However, here are the top three in action.

At 3 the King or should that be Queen of pop moustaches.



At two here at its most unruly is Macca.



Wonder how many gents will be able or want to emulate David Crosby from this clip by the end of November.

Men Have Eating Disorders Too

I'm the first to admit that I used to be lighter, that I don't like the slight bulge of middle aged spread around my middle. But I used to be an athlete, I was eating the required calories to complete the training and racing and my body though thinner was tuned muscle. I don't have an issue with a little extra poundage, I know the work I went through before was not for body image reasons but for sporting achievement, however that isn't always the case.

When Jo Swinson launched her campaign about Airbrushed ads leading to unrealistic images only related to girls and women. Of course that is part of the 'Real Women' policy paper that is before conference later this year.

As I Tweeted or commented at the time the same applies to men. There are magazines aimed at men that show the idealised male torso in adverts for cologne, underwear or whatever, just like there are those that affect the women amongst us. For the gay male there are additional sightings of the somewhat 'perfect' form by whatever means. Bombarded by images men are also likely to try and emulate those images.

The problem for the men with eating disorder there is the added problem that often their condition is not taking seriously enough, even by doctors and other health practitioners. Currently of the 60,000 people with an eating disorder only 10-20% are male. Yet amongst men, and in particular gay men, the image of what is average is at the lower end or below what is actually ideal for their body type and height.

While Jo is looking at potential causes there is a great need for males with eating disorders to get help with the effects. There is a Facebook Group set up to highlight the issues of male eating disorder, promoting a Downing Street petition stating:

'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ensure men with eating disorders are given the same opportunities for treatment and care as female sufferers and are by no means discriminated against by their doctor / other health practitioner because they are male.'

Please go along and sign it too.