Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
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Shaving sucks.
The real question is why shaving should be normalized, expected, or encouraged in modern society.
Long story short: WW2
The military required men to be clean shaven, which was partly tactical (proper gas mask seals), partly to whitewash the service (e.g., black men can have severe skin reactions to shaving every day), and had other benefits to unit cohesion and general order (routine personal fitness and hygiene).
Well, that stuck, and an entire (massive) generation of men and their male children were taught that to be good they simply had to be clean shaven. Those two generations make up the vast majority of business and political power in the US, so the idea of “success” and “power” was idolized by a clean shaven male. This was further accentuated by the counter culture reaction of this cohort’s kids in the 60s and 70s, where longer and unkempt “bad” hair was cast against this “good” clean shaven look.
Fast forward to today, those traditions and appearances have been baked into most of modern life. As the boomer population starts to fade away, so will the tyranny of the razor.
The boomers ARE the unshaven hippies tho. People born in the 40s and entering public life in the 60s-70s
Yeah, normalize either being okay. Just like long or short hair. Diversity is the spice of life.
Ye, I just shave mine when it starts irritating my neck 🤷♂️
Good answer. 👍
I prefer to shave so individuals can see that I have a chin / jawline.
I prefer not to shave, to make them wonder
Good for you
Beards are where the Communism is stored. As the ruling class become richer and more obscene, class consciousness grows amongst the working class. Hence, beards.
I’ve got mine almost completely colonized with psychedelic mycelium!
Beards are great. Shaving was the greatest crime of Romans.
Right up there with Carthage
??? Carthaginian men did not had that custom, most wore beards.
I think they meant the destruction of Carthage something I am still sore about
Yeah that too, if the Carthage was not destroyed it would serve as counterbalance to Romans at least for a time, and the vile shaving custom would not spread as much.
I think they mean the destruction of Carthage 😉
Yeah that too, if the Carthage was not destroyed it would serve as counterbalance to Romans at least for a time, and the vile shaving custom would not spread as much.
It’s crazy how long it’s been since we’ve had a bearded president in the US.
I grew one so people would stop thinking I’m 12.
I feel like beards are a reaction to the clean-cut look of the 1980s and 90s. The mainstream aesthetic was clean-cut brutalism, from architecture to facial hair. People in media lived in almost empty spaces made of concrete and hard lines. Even the grunge/plaid look of the 90s featured beardless dudes with a hint of stubble.
In the 2000s, there was a reaction against that. People looked for alternatives. Hipsters grew beards and mustaches. Instead of IKEA catalogs, movie characters lived in cottage-core wizard hangouts or busy apocalyptic shelters. This will continue for a while.
In the next decade or two we’re going to see a reaction against that. Politics are going to get funky and I think that’ll help get us back to clean-cut and brutal. But here’s hoping for a hirsute solar-punk future. Given a choice, I’d take a 1990s-style perfect shave in a solar-punk future, but that’s just me.
Fashion is always cyclical. There are loads of guys with beards today, but so many look awful, unkempt, and untidy. Kids today will grow up seeing those awful beards and decide it isn’t for them after a couple attempts. A good beard takes just as much effort to maintain as a clean shaven face, which the next generation is going to experience.
Everyone had a mustache in the 80s
Even the ladies! The ladies!
I always figured rona caused a big enough surge in beards owing to WFH allowing folks to get past the scruff hump that beards could be back on the table again.
It tickles.
The rent (razors) is too damn high!!!
Hides my fat face.
Alas, I cannot grow hair on the top of my head, so I must grow it on the bottom.
This is my reason too.
IIRC, it’s the same testosterone-y hormone that determines how good you are at growing a beard that also determines how aggressively you go bald. So there’s lots of folks in this boat with us
It’s more so how sensitive your cells/receptors are to these hormones (testosterone/DHT), assuming you have healthy levels. There’s people on anabolic steroids that still can’t grow a dense beard. It’s just genetics.
The more you know!
Alas, I have just enough native blood to not be able to grow a beard, and not enough to not go bald. Worst of both worlds haha
Also, I have a big ass forehead and no chin. Gotta aim for that balancing point.
Again?
I hate shaving and I think it’s a waste of time. I think facial hair can also act to make your appearance more visually interesting if you prefer to keep your hair cut really short like I do.
World fucked, why buy razor
