Datepalm Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Damn it, I'm now tracking this. College class, about 20 men, mostly mid-late 20 - about 6-7 real beards. Most are on white guys, but one each on an Asian and a Latino guy. The two latter and one of the former more chinstrap types, only one fully lumberjack (on a slightly older guy who is also bald, AND wearing a plaid flannel shirt), the other three kinda standard. Otherwise a majority of intermediate beard/I haven't shaved in a couple of days looks - it might be exacerbated by midterms - and one lonely, proper, slightly porn, mustache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IheartIheartTesla Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 99.9% of all Sikhs have beards...well, because it is one of 5 central tenets of their religion. And most of them tend not to trim it, although keeping it unkempt is sort of verboten. This tends to create a rather large set of tanned gentlemen with relatively luscious beards numbering in the many millions, so I am not even sure where some of these stereotypes come from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Neal Stephenson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meera of Tarth Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 12 hours ago, baxus said: I don't know if women find beards masculine, I wanted to experiment a bit and change the look I've run with for over 10 years. Since changing my hairstyle was a no-go due to baldness and I find just mustache extremely creepy the only option was growing a beard. So far it's been good. I quite like how it looks, the initial itch went away rather quickly and I like the ritual of washing it, using beard oils and balms and quite enjoy going to the barbers once in a week/tenday. I am yet to see a successful comb over, modern or otherwise. Don't use engineering students as measure of a modern man. And I say that as someone who was an engineering student once (and for much longer than they should've been). And kudos on having 30% girls/women in engineering classes. We were around 10%, 15% max. What counts as a long beard? I mean, I'm way past "stubble" but nowhere near what I'd consider a long beard. Regarding beards and skin colour, I'd second that a lot of Middle-Eastern men and men from India/Pakistan/Bangladesh have pretty cool beards, too. I had to laugh at that one, Oh well, some are very stylish, (or better said....they try to... ) XD. Yeah well, in general it's around 25-30%, sometimes it's also less, like 15% depending on the class... I was referring to something like this as for long But I've seen lots of "normal beards", definitley many more than those undefined/very short ones. 4 hours ago, Datepalm said: Damn it, I'm now tracking this. College class, about 20 men, mostly mid-late 20 - about 6-7 real beards. Most are on white guys, but one each on an Asian and a Latino guy. The two latter and one of the former more chinstrap types, only one fully lumberjack (on a slightly older guy who is also bald, AND wearing a plaid flannel shirt), the other three kinda standard. Otherwise a majority of intermediate beard/I haven't shaved in a couple of days looks - it might be exacerbated by midterms - and one lonely, proper, slightly porn, mustache. I did the same, xD...from 20 guys, mostly early and mid 20's. 17 of them had beards...only one man bun, though. What's happening to man buns?!!? The majority were "normal" beard ones, one very dense though not lumberjack and around 6 or 7 of them just "stubble" or something similar to chinstrap styles. Just 3 shaved, this shows how the trend is everywhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 On 10/22/2018 at 1:36 PM, Iskaral Pust said: Honestly, I don't know how some of these trends get established. It is claimed now -- by outlets who need a new trend to trumpet each season -- that women find beards attractively masculine. And no mention of skin irritation for women kissing those beards. This gives license to guys who've always wondered whether they can grow a beard and how it would look, or just want to experiment with a different look. It does remind me of Cryptonomicon and the hypothesis that beards are a symbol of while male privilege. Surprising in this febrile era of identity politics that no-one is actually making that claim yet. I have always thought of beards as a symbol of white male shyness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iskaral Pust Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 9 minutes ago, maarsen said: I have always thought of beards as a symbol of white male shyness. That was part of the joke in Cryptonomicon too: white male privilege and the emotional unavailability of same. (The character's girlfriend was writing a thesis as a way to passively-aggressively snipe at him and his tech-geek culture) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SerHaHa Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 I too was fortunate enough to begin going bald at an early age. When I was 27 in the year 2000, my then wife told me there was no point in getting hair cuts anymore, and that I should just embrace the horror and take it all off. She bought me a $35 pair of clippers, spent 2 minutes zipping all my hair off, and it's stayed that way ever since. I buy a new pair of cordless clippers every year or so, spend $ on a good unit now, and use a bic or whatever razor is handy every morning shower, so I usually don't even need the clippers unless I was out deployed or whatever and couldn't bic it for various reasons. Simple, cheap, aerodynamic, cool in the summer. About the only downside is the Mr Clean look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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