You had me at the first "raising awareness" I guess if you are not a research scientist specializing in the disease in question, or willing to join the peace corps and actually go to a foreign country and do something, you can make yourself feel like a participant in the solution (usually to a non problem)this way, but the whole hand wringing thing has been really overdone. I cringe every time I see anything pink thanks to the breast cancer "awareness" thing. Isabel

The other inspiration came from, of all places, Tajikistan ... "unibrows" are the latest trend in that country. In fact, some women in Tajikistan whose brows aren't bushy enough are resorting to herbal remedies or eyebrow pencils in order to get up to a socially acceptable level.

I'm guessing we won't be seeing a wave of mail order brides from Tajikistan in the next few years.

Frida Kahlo could get away with having a unibrow. Very, very few other women can. For myself, I'd have to say, "Pass me that Tweezerman, please!" :-)

My awareness has not been raised enough to know if there is a difference between a monobrow and a unibrow. Are the terms truly interchangeable? This very important information was somehow lacking in the article.

Can we convince them to wear a burka for a month? please??

Maybe Adelman could be inspired by an article about the Summerians of 5,000 years ago. They wore fashions that exposed the breasts. Breast covering is a much more strict imposition by our culture than eybrow fashion (smile).

Tajikistan is a tough place. Maybe lots of testosterone is valuable there for survival, in both men and women.

If Adelman really wanted to break a stereotype while improving the fitness of women for a modern world, she could promote "Women For Algebra". That would oppose our cultural standards big time. And, if it repelled men, at least it would provide for better job prospects as a single, accomplished woman.

If you want to see a GREAT documentary about vanity and it's consequences on a culture, check out Chris Rock's film "Good Hair". I just saw it- the two hours flew by.

I see the Yoplait Lids campaign about breast cancer. It used to be -- send in the lid(s) and we'll donate $0.10 each to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure campaign. I knew a lady that was doing that.

She was buying the yogurt at $0.99 each. I pointed out to her that if she they bought the store brand yogurt at $0.69 each and saved up the extra $0.30 each and sent that -- she would be contributing three times as much. She was sort of like "you're right".

I saw the pink lids disappear from her desk and she later sort of made a comment of "I sent the foundation a $40 check."

The scary part -- she was in our accounting department.

Unibrow? I don't have to like it. You can't make me.

Seems like it would just draw more attention to the stupid wench growing the uni.

Why can't these things ever be more fun for men? Like, "Blowjob for awareness of prostate problems" or something like that.

At least then it would be related somehow.

I'm guessing that they haven't considered how this portrays women who always have unibrows.

I used to date a girl who had a unibrow. She was very cute and it worked, though it wasn't a heavy unibrow like Bert's. She probably wouldn't appreciate being used as an example of what we should try to be open minded about.

cultural standards that create a less-than-healthy body image for women and girls.

There's some truth to this. But I think that you have to address the influence of other women, maybe more so than men. Men may filter based on appearance, but other women, and women's culture, do more to enforce body standards.

Why Decembrow? Because professional feminists can't let men have anything of their own.

God forbid that we have anything that they can't co-opt or copy! Isn't it enough that the NFL put pink on all the uniforms to raise awareness of breast cancer?

Is anyone unaware of breast cancer at this point? If anything, we're too aware. Killers like heart disease, stroke, and cigarettes are now over-shadowed by the fear of cancerous tits!

Feminists don't have a sense of humor. We know this.

Can we give these women credit for at least trying to have a sense of humor?

Can't we at least be grateful that, on some conscious level, these particular people are conceding a delicate truth?

BTW, does it matter that I had a handlebar mustache for years -- regardless of the Movember movement?

It's always amazing to me how feminists . . . bleat about how great it is in the non-Western world.

I really haven't noticed them doing much of this. What they do is complain how terrible things are for women here, while completely ignoring how much worse they are everywhere else.

This is not a fashion every women can participate in... how many women are actually capable of growing a unibrow?

"This is not a fashion every women can participate in... how many women are actually capable of growing a unibrow?"

if you can't grow one do you have to "pencil it in" in a show of solidarity?

Yes, what of those of us who are naturally dual-browed? I FEEL DISCRIMINATED AGAINST! :D

>>If you want to see a GREAT documentary about vanity and it's consequences on a culture, check out Chris Rock's film "Good Hair". I just saw it- the two hours flew by.

Same reaction here, Eric.
It's a brilliant piece of work and incredibly entertaining.

The whole point of raising awareness is that you need to do something so out of the ordinary that it draws attention. If I see a woman with a faint unibrow (because really, what percent of the population is actually capable of growing a full unibrow?), I wouldn't think "gee, she must be trying to raise attention for the feminist movement"; I'd think that she hadn't been to the salon yet this month. And I'm not really sure what message exactly this is supposed to sent. Feminists are hairy and unattractive? Not the greatest recruitment tactic.

Hmm, just picturing the headline now: "Man beaten to death asking woman if her unibrow was for awareness."
If it weren't for that probable outcome, I'd suggest going up to these feminists and congradulating them on their unibrow.

So do the lasses at feministing generally have the ability to just "grow a unibrow" or what? Because I certainly don't, and I thank God for that.