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How about “it’s easier then shaving everyday”?
8 years later - yup. Look at this thick, manly symbol of my lack of fucks.
It still ends up being more work than I’d hoped for (which was 0), but certainly less than staying clean shaven. That and my wife really likes it are my two biggest reasons.
Exactly. My lazy ass shaves every 2 to 3 weeks when it starts itching. In the summertime more often since a beard sucks when you try to wipe your sweat off…
Appealing to prospective partners is not why I have a beard. Improving my standing with other men is not why I have a beard.
I have a beard because…I like it. It’s for me. I was clean shaven for a year for a job and hated it so much I quit.
If you don’t mind my asking, why do you think you hated it so much? Just hate the way it looks on you specifically?
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It made me look 10 years younger and I’d prefer to look my age
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Shaving is annoying. Occasional razor burn and cuts aside, it’s an “all or nothing” style. If you miss a spot, it sticks out against the smooth skin
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Having to do it daily sucks especially for people like me who get 10am shadows. Post-shave stubble looks bad. Post-#1 trimmer stubble looks the same
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It’s relaxing to scratch a beard and it doesn’t feel good to scratch a freshly-shaven face.
I trim my beard once a week and I can do it half asleep. it stays relatively nice and if I miss a spot, it mostly blends in. Sometimes during the week I will trim the couple of hairs that grow a little higher on my cheeks but even if I don’t, it doesn’t look too bad.
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What do you think exists “like” and “beauty” for?
There can be other, individual reasons especially for “like”, but that and “beauty” have a strong link to evolution. For example, a wolf wouldn’t find a bowl of fruits beautiful.
It’s not about hiding a weak jaw line? Jokes aside, it is interesting that a lot of the masculine activities we may have naively agreed were intended to attract women, are to repel other men and avoid competition.
Well what does my mustache say? That I’m sad the craft beer bubble burst?
Wait the craft beer bubble burst?
The spirit is willing, but the hazy IPA is weak
I gotta say I was never on that hype train.
To me it was like someone went “Hey, what if we take the worst part of beer, and made it the only part?”
I’ve never been a fan of IPAs and don’t think I’ve ever bought one on its own, but I’ve enjoyed a lot of other local craft brews. I think we’ve had a few local breweries close, but others still open.
My kid didn’t think I look enough like a real dad so he harangued me until I grew a beard. And hey it grew on me and eventually even on my wife. Well you know what I mean.
Then it grew on the dog. It grew on the couch. It grew on the house and the neighborhoid block. It grew on the town, the county, the state. It grew on the Earth, the sun, all the way to Oort cloud. When it grew on Sagittarius A* we stopped keeping track.
With a little more ridiculous imagery, that could’ve been a Shel Silverstein poem.
Well, except he didn’t write it…
My wife originally hated my beard, and now she doesn’t like me clean shaven. I guess she got so used to it that any time I shave she says she prefers me with facial hair.
Some people do look better with beard. Not that’ it is a bad thing, me too. Well, “beard”, 5mm.
That’s about my sweet spot too.
Beards are makeup for men, change my mind.
Do nothing, and voilà! No makeup.
Do nothing, and voilà! Beard.
Beards take effort to remove, not to grow, and exist completely independently from human fashion and technology
When I shaved my cats wouldn’t let me pet them. I couldn’t deal with that kind of rejection.
Lol, you looked like someone else to them? Don’t cats identify via nose too?
I have a beard because my fiancé says I have to keep it. I’d have a stubble face (clippers only, no razors) every day if I could.
Wtf
I don’t care what I look like and shaving takes up time so I have a beard. I’m married with a job, who do I have to impress? My entire chin is gray and I look kinda crazy with it so it helps with avoiding talking to people too.
There have been a lot of articles about men’s beards since hipsters started rocking full beards in the last couple of decades, and they’re often loaded with opinions against it. It’s usually not more scientifically interesting than asking “why animals grow hair”. They do, and nobody really cares enough to ask “why”.
I’d rather like to know “the real reason men shave”. That’s somewhat more interesting, because it’s something humans have created and there ought to be a reason why.
BBC still asks users to follow them on google+ …
