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I have a confession to make. I don’t like beards on men. I like them even less so on women. I think beards are unattractive. I’m not too wild about mustaches, but they’re not as bad as beards.
I have observed the following about men that wear beards. Mind you, this is not a scientifically designed survey. It is only my casual observations.
Most men that wear beards are liberals. If I see a man on TV and he’s wearing a beard, I would guess that 75% of the time he’s a liberal. Mustaches, on the other hand, seem to predominate on conservatives.
Most men that wear beards have a receding hairline. It’s almost as if, since they can’t seem to grow hair on their head, they can at least grow it on their face.
It’s been known for some time, that facial hair on a face-to-face salesman will cost him money. Over a year or more a salesman with a beard will make few sales and get few commissions that a salesman without a beard.
I think this is partly because a beard masks a man’s face. It’s as if he’s wearing a mask. I think that subconsciously people think the person is hiding something and they don’t trust them. But that’s just my pop psychology thought. When a man wears a full beard, you can’t tell if he’s smiling or frowning.
The Vorlon Wife likes to watch some soap operas. When one of the male characters starts to grow a beard, most of the time, their personality changes and they turn to the dark side.
At some point, the character regains their former good behavior and the beard then disappears.
Personally I haven’t missed shaving in so many years I don’t remember they last time I didn’t shave. If I miss shaving, I feel so thoroughly yucky I can’t stand myself. Once I have regained my clean-shaven face, I feel like I’m now ready to take on the world again. I guess its sort of a reverse Samson psychosis.
We all have our little prejudices and this is one of mine.
Posted by Ted at January 14, 2005 8:08 PM