To beard or not to beard

http://hipstergirlsinmustaches.blogspot.com/

Very funny website about hipsters and moustaches - a combination made for this place!

That site gets me all excited. In a chaste we-will-reclaim-this-from-the-patriarchy kinda way, not the way you were hoping.

we-will-reclaim-this-from-the-patriarchy

Sorry to be mundane or possibly pedantic, but didn't moustaches start with the patriarchy. "Reclaim" is, accordingly, a little presumptive.

I know. I was being light-hearted. :P

(Though actually, most adult humans have moustaches - it's just that women are encouraged to pretend they don't, by shaving, bleaching, waxing, etc., and men (at least in some cultures) consider them an index of masculinity or something. So maybe I can reclaim them. Ha!)

men (at least in some cultures) consider them an index of masculinity

Well bang goes THAT theory! :)

(Though actually, most adult humans have moustaches - it's just that women are encouraged to pretend they don't, by shaving, bleaching, waxing, etc., and men (at least in some cultures) consider them an index of masculinity or something. So maybe I can reclaim them. Ha!)

Frida Kahlo beat you to it:

As did Patti Smith.

That site gets me all excited. In a chaste we-will-reclaim-this-from-the-patriarchy kinda way, not the way you were hoping.

There's an irony in this as many tribal rituals around the world are intended for males to steal female ritual power. These include male initiation rites (women create the boy, but it is through male procreative power the man is made) and other practises such as genital sub-incision and male menstruation (various tribes do this various ways: from sharp grasses inside the nose to bleeding fromthe genitals). Myths and rituals hint at a time when the matriachy were dominant, and there was a male revolution, where they stole back female ritual power (the sacred flutes) and appropriated for themselves, while using the same symbolism to enshrine their ascendancy. There is further theory that is was a sorroral solidarity that forced the previously combative and competitive alpha males to co-operate and hunt for the females, so they could raise slow developing, large-brained offspring and so facilitated the birth of language and symbolic culture, and first true revolution.

Thus females are the fount of civilisation

Phew. It's nice to dig out what you learned at Uni every once in a while

^Anthropolenger...
;-

no man should have children and no beard, its just wrong.

When you have a beard like this, you need a tattoo like that.

^Anthropolenger...
;-

ethnocentrist

if you know the film ;)

^Harry Potter?

no man should have children and no beard, its just wrong.

Au contraire.

Children should have neither beards nor men.

So I said to her

"There's an irony in this as many tribal rituals around the world are intended for males to steal female ritual power. These include male initiation rites (women create the boy, but it is through male procreative power the man is made) and other practises such as genital sub-incision and male menstruation (various tribes do this various ways: from sharp grasses inside the nose to bleeding fromthe genitals). Myths and rituals hint at a time when the matriachy were dominant, and there was a male revolution, where they stole back female ritual power (the sacred flutes) and appropriated for themselves, while using the same symbolism to enshrine their ascendancy. There is further theory that is was a sorroral solidarity that forced the previously combative and competitive alpha males to co-operate and hunt for the females, so they could raise slow developing, large-brained offspring and so facilitated the birth of language and symbolic culture, and first true revolution".

and you know what, I never heard from her again. Women eh?

Will, you are one very witty fucker...

Girl who doesn't like beard = not girlfriend material*

*not at all generally speaking

Seriously man, if a woman cant deal with the beard she's missing out on the wild freaky world of El Guapo!

only women should have beards. big ones.

(did I say that out loud?)

only women should have beards. big ones.

(did I say that out loud?)

that's exactly what I was talking about

This is from the page showing Raphas georgeousluss new Fixed Jacket (250notes - STILL NOT A WATERPROOF).

Anyway, the reason i've been growing mine is all down to the fact that I know an 'insider' @ Rapha who told me that this seasons new black is a beard! I'm finally ahead of the trend! Hahaha

(Apparently gardening gloves are the new mitts as well)

How much do Rapha sell beards for? And are they waterproof?

You're really just copying me.. slag.

Nope, I'm copying Cris Crash!!