Dude you should see him in uniform!! SWOON!
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I dunno, I feel like I manage all right in the Beard Department (although I will admit to Mustache Envy)
Look how repressed I am, choosing to wear a yarmulke out of respect for my heritage and for my parents’ household!
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If you had never cut your face hairs and did the twisty thing up into your yarmulke I think you’d be pretty close!! 
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Also… what a pretty yarmulke!
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Since we’re on the topic of beards, here’s a cultural parallel to ponder: Amish men, marriage, and facial hair. My understanding, based both on what I’ve read and my own experience with Ohio and Pennsylvania Amish, is that married men must wear a beard. Which I’d have no problem with because I hate shaving anyway.
ETA: Apparently they cite Psalms as the basis for this mandate, one that also forbids mustaches. no mustache envy for you, @bibliophile20! Unfortunately, no Amish Jews, either. That I know of.
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Well, if you were to choose to follow something logical like mashing little plastic buttons in time to lights flashing on a screen, then we could have a meeting of the minds!
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Beards: Unless you take action (shave) they are naturally visible.
Boobs: Unless you take action (cover), they are naturally visible.
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They’re also both secondary sexual characteristics. Neither of them are “sex organs” as was said earlier.
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Separating any of these issues (expression, repression, etc.) from their religious context doesn’t make them any different. Your anti-religion crusade looks a lot like a religious crusade too.
Doesn’t Discourse have a warning when you’ve repeatedly posted the same thing in a single thread? It’s been a nice chat, but I think it’s time to call it a day.
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How do I know it’s religious? I’m not asking them. Some women just like scarves. I’ve covered my own hair entirely with a scarf in a not-dissimilar manner. I like for my skirts to be below my knee, am I advertising religious discrimination because some religions mandate long skirts? How many clothes do I have to take off in order to fuck the patriarchy?
Edit to make it more clear what I mean. Here’s some women in Iran wearing scarves in a manner exactly as I’ve worn them to protect my hair. Those are some of the least “covering” hijabs I’ve seen and Iran actually mandates wearing them.
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That’s not true. They are secondary sex organs, but then so are men’s nipples and many people’s earlobes, so … start wearing earmuffs people!
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Except that gender inequality doesn’t magically disappear when you take religion out of the equation. And plenty of faiths or interpretations of faith indeed are far more aware of these problems and have sought to help ameliorate them.
I do think that saying it’s all about religion actually downplays the problems faced by all women, regardless of our faith or lack of it.
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I’ve tried.
You’re right.
I know how to fix this! Beard coverings for all men!
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Beard coverings for some men, miniature American flags for others?
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And always twirling, twirling towards freedom!
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What if a man doesn’t want a beard? No flags for him?
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He doesn’t get a say. He’ll do what he’s told to.
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Men are so oppressed today!
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But Silicon Valley and the culture of Meritocracy!
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