Iām pretty sure he doesnāt care if it looks good or not.
all i know is i wont be getting smooches from the wife with a beardā¦ so there is that.
My face is the only place where I can still grow hair and itās socially acceptable to do so, so why the hell not?
I told her that there was a faction on reddit that considered beards like that to be magnificent. I also said that maybe it was a generational thing, and that maybe she might be too old to appreciate it.
Iāll be sleeping in the guest room tonight.
If a man grows a beard like that, he gets 10 minutes extra in bed every morning. I think it looks OK, but I think it would look better in a brighter colour. Maybe purple. With some black raccoon stripes.
āDonāt ever grow a beard like that, I donāt think it looks good.ā ?
I had to shave my full beard down to a short goatee and cut my hair short yesterday. Apparently people would want to put me in a padded room if I kept it up. I disagree, itās like growing your own scarf, and I was starting to channel a 1966 Bob Dylan on top. Some people just canāt appreciate art.
āHoney, thatās one of those questions where there is no right answer. You just have to say something like, āYou always look handsome to me,ā or some other such non-answer.ā
I think maybe paired with a hat of some sort, he achieves some anonymity when out in public.
My brother used to live in Athens for his postgrad education, and he mentioned to me that the general rule among the populace there was ādonāt mess with Michael Stipe, and allow him his privacyā.
My assumption is that over the years, that civility has possibly eroded, hence the beard.
Iām probably among the more blatantly unqualified commentators on male facial aesthetics; but one theory Iāve heard repeatedly is that growing a beard is sort of like taking out an option(in the finance sense) with respect to aging.
Beards tend to make you look a bit older(considered a feature by those tragically cultivating some chin-pubes; philosophers; wizards; and VMS or UNIX sysadmins; otherwise generally considered a defect); but for this reason, growing a beard gives you the option of removing it for a hit of relative facial youth at some point in the future.
Since how old you are tends to get increasingly burdensome over time; some people choose accellerated apparent aging in the short term in order to be able to revert at a later time, when time weighs heavier. Entropy laughs a hollow, pitiless, laugh; but that goes for basically anything complex systems do.
Show me a man who doesnāt let his beard grow once in a while, even if itās only for a day or so, and youāve shown me a man who thinks more ofsocial pressure than he does of his own comfort. And show me a man who says he likes to shave, and youāve shown me a man who is either a liar or is asking for punishment.
-From the short story āSee?ā By Edward G. Robles Jr.
In the same way that āeveningā lasts until Iām ready to go to bed; and āMorningā is over when my breakfast and coffee say it is; anything I do not intend to let grow into a beard is, categorically, āstubbleā, regardless of petty empirical matters like length.
This truth allows you to skip tedious shaving without ever letting your beard grow, unless desired.
When I was in my first job after college, I had as many years postgraduate education as I had undergrad education. However, I was 23 years old but could probably pass for 15 or 16 in all seriousness. Now that I didnāt need to look super clean cut for going on job interviews, I found that growing a beard was a huge advantage in helping me look older. Iāve had it ever since.
And male pattern baldness is what exactly? Now that I canāt grow hair on my head, I have to grow it on my face to avoid looking like a skinhead.
I donāt have good hair genes. I blame my father. A beard on me makes me looks like a hobo with facial alopecia. Not a good look.
Donāt feel bad. I couldnāt grow a halfway decent beard until my late twenties, and a very few years later it started falling out in patches (as it does in the process of going grey for some men, the dermatologist says). It only started to look decent again in my late forties because Iād finally achieved some equilibrium with the amount of grey on each side of my face.
Alternate interpretation: the beard is flagging āI already have a mate, I donāt have to care about attractiveness anymoreā.
Problematic from a dozen angles, but not implausible.
I donāt understand antipathy toward beards like we had in the 1950s in the US, but I donāt understand the great lumbersexual love of beards we have today either. Itās more accurately a flag for āIām a real man who eats bacon and drinks whiskey and goes to the gym every day, and Iām totally secure in my sexuality and not gay at all, no seriously dude, Iām not gay, just look at the beardā¦ā
If I shave my beard, I risk getting a divorce. I keep threatening to shave it, the moment I sense some weakness, it is gonna go.
