Beards

[Sexnotgender]

A bit of a ‘no shit Sherlock’ discovery to those of us currently battling MRAs but fascinating all the same.

www.discovermagazine.com/health/flashback-friday-men-with-beards-are-more-likely-to-be-sexist

I was pondering why sooo many anti women activists had beards and now I know

Lol, thought not.

Lol cool story bro

You start a thread about 'research' which uses a laughably small sample size to point to the fact that men with beards are more likely to be misogynists. Someone questions the voracity of the research and you say it is one of many studies. When pressed for more of these sources, the onus is then on the questionee to look it up. Game set and match.
Cool story 'luv'.

Blah blah beard blah blah.

As the owner of a newly-sprouted beard (it was a quiet Christmas), my two penn'orth is that beards right now, rather than being the preserve of macho women-haters, are mostly favoured by the woke (who, while they may be the latter, are rarely the former).

To distinguish myself from said undesirables I've gone for the 'naval captain' look (which, as the day goes on, tends to degenerate into the 'desperate arctic explorer who's just eaten his last husky' look).

''Blah blah beard blah blah.''
The kind of intellectual debate I've come to expect from your lot 😂

You’re showing your true colours now saucy, didn’t take long😉

The woke are quite often fiercely women hating their woke credentials being nothing but a mask beard to hide behind to tell women how they are doing being a woman wrong.

Very much like the men who bang on about nothing being game players are usually much more manipulative than the average bloke.

My ex was the 'the man in the relationship must make all final decisions or the family is doomed' kind of sexist. His beard went down to his belly button.

You’re showing your true colours now saucy, didn’t take long😉

Sorry I didn't mean women. I meant philistines. Apologies for the offense.

If Saucy has a beard, it might be the cure for my pogonophillia

I reckon saucy would probably quell most desires in you😂

Damn, I like men with beards, although my ex-H had one and he was a bit of an arsehole. In my defence I've had a thing for beardy men since forever, paired with long hair and occasionally a skirt/kilt. My current special friend has a bit of of a beard, but I don't discuss gender politics with him (yet.)

My late DF had a beard, from the late 1960s. He was not a hippy, but left-wing, and definitely not misogynistic. But beards have changed meaning over time: e.g. in 1860s+ they were associated with soldiery courage/pride etc. because combatants in American civil war couldn’t shave while on service. That’s why married Amish men have beards, but not moustaches, because they are pacifists.

because combatants in American civil war couldn’t shave while on service.

And here's a portrait of Ol' Stonewall himself. Stickler for the rules that crazy dude - got himself all shot up in some friendly fire. Yeah right.

There's a fascinating history of mens facial hair, if people like history ... it's had vogues in classical times, and gone out of fashion. Caesar was clean shaven, (and didn't you know it) whereas later emperors were quite heavily bearded.

In fact the 20th century is probably the cleanest shaven in 2000 years. Presumably because of the necessities of wearing gas masks.

There's also been a status thing about male facial hair - if you think of the increasingly ludicrous moustache styles of the Victorian and Edwardian gentlemen - clearly a sign to all that they didn't need to work for a living.

Then the 1960s (or even 1950s) counterculture making beards a statement of rebellion.

The fact the word "barbarian" entwines the Greek "bar bar" with the latin "barba" in reference to uncivilised cultures (i.e. non-Greek or Roman) is also fascinating.