And away it has gone.
Due to apparently universal disdain for facial hair and the people who sport it, I have made a step to rise out of the simian class of diseased under-beings who elicit such disgust by shaving off my beard and moustache. My face hurts, my cheeks feel cold, and my face (which once had a semblance of a jaw-line) now looks strangely ridiculous. Yay.
posted by The Academian | 9:46 AM
7 Comments:
Well, as long as you did it for the right reasons...?
But, if you grow it back, grow it back because you want to. Otherwise it's jus the same thing, but in reverse.
"Universal distain" seems a bit of a hyperbole. I for one never said I hated all facial hair. I only think the mustache, sported all by itself, sucks. Goatees and trimmed beards were not on my sucky list.
So good think your shave was in no way influenced by my blog.
MMD, it's hair on my face. It exists for one reason only: to cover up the fact that I don't have a jaw-line and to hide bad skin and scarring. I don't care whether it is there or not, frankly. It's like fashion. It exists for other people, not for the person wearing it (doubt the truth of that statement and justify high-heeled shoes to me).
MS, your actions seem a bit out of accord with your claim. You say that goatees and trimmed beards were not on your sucky list, but then proceed to post a picture of a guy with strikingly similar facial hair and say he looks like a tool because of it. You go on to say why moustaches suck (impossible to kiss a guy without getting hair in your mouth; hair where a lip should be), but must realize that reasoning applies to all guys with facial hair, and not just guys with moustaches only.
Kansasgirl, I may not bow to the opinions of others on important matters like my ethics, epistemology, or metaphysics, but making myself more attractive to rise to the level of being lovable/date-able must, by necessity, be about bowing to the opinions of others. I don't need to look good to myself. I don't care. I have to make myself presentable for other people's sakes, not my own. And as it is, the near universal opinion (aside from a single commenter to MS's post and MS's own confusing protestation to the contrary) is that facial hair is repulsive.
Thus, off it came.
Martyr.
Ouch, MMD. First the critiques to my appearance, and now this? I object to the imagined slights caused by the stated preferences of others in their own private forum, and when I go out of my way to conform myself to them and complain about it, I get the double-whammy? Okay, so maybe it's awfully passive aggressive, but it's terribly untactful to point it out like that.
You know what else goes on the sucky list--passive agressiveness.
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