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[RANT] Friends for Facial Follicles |
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And now for a return to the usual strange tretise that you're hopefully becoming used to seeing here. Today, I thought I might deal with a subject close to my heart, or at least, my face. Shaving. I myself do not like to shave, thus I sport a full beard and mustache. I would post a picture of myself to show you, but I don't have very many recent pictures of myself (or any kind really), and plus I don't have the money to pay for that many people's psychiatry bills. But for a few of years, from the age of 19 to 31 (okay, maybe I should have said several years), I found myself in professions in which the possession of copious amounts of facial hair was seen as unacceptable. Now we're not talking about someone having a mass of unkempt fluff on their face as being the limit of unacceptable. No, I mean that the appearnce of stubble on one's face, in these environments, indicated that you were either lazy or just slovenly.
And over the years, I have seen exceptions a-plenty made to rules like these. Everything from "he is exempt for medical reasons" to just plain old favoritism. Not once was the intelligence, professionalism, or hygeine of the exempted person ever brought into question. So through the obvious and judicious application of logic, I deduced that I was correct in assuming that all the beard fuss was in fact a steaming pile of cow dung. But then I was left with another question. Why bother making people shave at all? The only two options I've ever come up with is conformity and power. Allow me to elaborate.
Power is an obvious reason as anyone who is placed in charge of people, or gains underlings through some means, will eventually try to impress their personal beliefs and standards (or as they see it in their heads, the right way) on those that follow or report to them. The conformity may not seem as obvious, probably because it links back to the power thing. Instead of having it impressed upon them, the conformist adopts or even accepts the standards in the hopes of being accepted or otherwise being taken seriously by the people they want to impress. (ie: the "IN" crowd) Now if you have these conformists in charge of other people, they will eventually press these adopted conformities upon them, in the hopes that everyone will behave similar since they all look similar. (And I think we all know how well this has worked in the past, on any level.)
Me personally, all I think shaving demonstrates is the fact that you have enough coordination and skill to drag a piece of metal across your face and come out looking loike something from a B-grade slasher flick. Yea. Go you. Just don't expect me to be impressed is all I'm saying.
-FireSpark Out
Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic.
You don't mind going through a little bush to get there! - Minnie Pearl
 FireSpark · Thu Oct 14, 2010 @ 06:39am · 0 Comments |
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