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yeah, I get the circularness of it and great that you are perturbed for the right reason. Yet, I can't help being trollish towards men who generally never have had to deal with a culture set up to constantly critique their appearance.

do you mean in terms of how they are portrayed in the media?

i mean, i honestly don't care and not offended (but i don't have a weak chin)

but i will say i think a lot of men bag on each other a lot and beat each other up since they start having friends, that's probably a big part of being a boy i would say

Also it’s a slow work day

they are portrayed in the media = women?

uh men?

in most other contexts it generally has the side effect of reinforcing an over-testosteroned conception of masculinity.

The class aspect in the UK is kind of amusing.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chinless_wonder

Interesting. Clinging to an oversized yet 'natural' sense of masculinity as a corrective to socioeconomic inferiority is a classic staple of working class culture.

i have kinda wanted to get rid of it for the past year+ but now i'm scared because i don't remember what my face looks like

when i shaved after having a full beard for a year or so, I was horrified. never again

Men who grow beards to look better because they have small/not defined/weak chins, jowls or even bad skin this is seen as ??? (curious, or is it the language of "weak" that is offputting).
I mean, women modify/enhance their appearance all the time to hide what they perceive as flaws, for themselves, for whoever.

xpost I once dated this hippie who had a big ass, bushy beard. I don't know why we shaved it one day (we were bored? I still have a pic of my roommate holding the razor). After that though, I couldn't look directly at him.

I don't have bad skin or weak chin or jowls but it was like looking at a skinned cat or something. just couldn't deal

it's not my fault all my hair moved to my face when I went bald

The beard stays, YOU GO

I couldn't look at him because it was all bright white skin, too big teeth, I thought I was dating a stranger.

in most other contexts it generally has the side effect of reinforcing an over-testosteroned conception of masculinity.

Like being able to grow a beard.

My question is: why tf do human beings even shave their hair off in the first place? It's goddamn weird. Stop it.

lol Tom

My question is: why tf do human beings even shave their hair off in the first place? It's goddamn weird. Stop it.

― My mother set great store by that microwave oven! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:26 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like shaving and dislike stubble

I trim

But also i was raised catholic

What's really so hard about a weekly head-to-toe wax, is all I'm asking here.

Dip me in nair

I shave because I have an attractive chin and I want to look less masculine and I’m almost 30 and it’s still pretty much adolescent looking when it grows in

I can't grow a full beard but I've had a goatee since I was 20 or so (and a mustache since I was in my early 30s - for some reason I couldn't grow a mustache before that). Anyway, I have occasionally shaved it all off for a job interview because being bare-faced makes me look significantly younger. But I always grow it back.

Julius Caesar was ridiculed by his opponents as effeminate because he was clean-shaven (via plucking rather than shaving, iirc). When this didn't ploy work out as well as they hoped, they said "fuck it" and killed him.

I have a beard, btw.

aimless is a good poster

Anyone who plucks their fuckin' beard is more manly than I'll ever be.

aimless is a good poster

it does not escape my notice which thread you posted that in

teehee, i am a bounder.

i used to pluck my unibrow when i was a teenager and it never grew back, maybe beard plucking would be the way to go if you really want to not have to bother with facial hair in perpetuity

Laser it off.

i have a beard because shaving is a pain in the ass.

xps re aimless i concur but am also not immune to controps

i grow a beard and then i dont sometimes it looks better sometimes not sometimes it feels better sometimes not

re chins, my brother had elective surgery to break his jaw in two places to take inches off his lantern jaw

Anyone who plucks their fuckin' beard is more manly than I'll ever be.

― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, November 14, 2018 2:58 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can't imagine what my face would look like after this honestly

Beard threading is a thing.

they must have some pretty wispy beards though, idk, not to beard shame

Laser it off.

When I was younger I idly planned to have electrolysis when I got a better job. I'd vastly underestimated the amount of effort and cost it would take to do that though. I hate having facial hair, but I also hate shaving because I pretty much always get a rash that lasts at least a couple of days, so I tend to just shave every 5 days so despite hating having facial hair I still get stubbly every week.

I've had a beard for twenty-five years and I a) look better with it ii) am allowed to follow the past of least action and 3) last time I shaved it off my wife didn't come near me for three days.

I have no particular opinions about whether beards are good not bad or bad not good.

xpost Lasering is pretty cheapish now (in some places) because groupon and similar devalued those types of services.

I tend to just shave every 5 days so despite hating having facial hair I still get stubbly every week.

I shave every Monday morning, but like I said, I can't really grow a beard other than a goatee so I'm only vaguely stubbly on the sides by Thursday/Friday/the weekend.

Had a couple exes who lasered off their pubes (before they met me)

It still grows back and they recommend going a handful of times so it doesn’t grow back

Had a couple exes who lasered off their pubes (before they met me)

― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, November 14, 2018 3:23 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

classic country tune

For lasering you usually have to go back at least 6 times and month and half? spaced out. And then back for touch ups as needed. I highly recommend it.

Aint seen nuttin like it on them youtubes

I feel like I was told by my laser tech that guys usually got their back, butt cheeks and shoulders done. She also said they wouldn't do male buttholes at that specific place because it was generally too disgusting. Ha!

Yerac, if you so desire to share, from your own personal experience, are we talkin bikini line or full blown bald as an eagle

The guys? I think they just wanted their buttholes done. But the polish lady said "they are not clean."

Also, I had 4 body parts done during the whole groupon "oh, this is super cheap" phase. I wasn't exceptionally hairy or anything but I have always been super negligent about shaving and just didn't want to ever think about it again.

2 armpits + 2 legs = no fun

i have a beard because shaving is a pain in the ass.

― ian, Wednesday, November 14, 2018 1:02 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

an ex preferred me clean-shaven, so i did that for a while, and it was fine, i don't mind how i like either way -- but for convenience, beard all the way

xpost, I'm not you. I'm not talking about my dong area on a messageboard full of mostly dudes.

I’m fine with beards but Jesus Christ men need to realize that shit needs to be WASHED every day, not just rinsed with water. It smells gross, just like your head hair, if you don’t - except it’s worse than head hair bc it has food in it.