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Subject: Re: makeup (digressing into facial fur)
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Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 13:52:56 EDT
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> means from a previous article

A statement:
> ...there is something artificial about shaving or keeping your hair styled.  

A definition:
>   The more artificial one's appearance, the more effort required to
> maintain it.  There's a certain amount of wear and tear involved,
> too.  Razors are not nice to faces, blow-dryers are not nice to
> hair, and so on.

A solution:
> ...I also like to avoid nuisance, and wear and tear.  So, I don't shave,
> and I keep a simple haircut.  

Another solution:
  Electrolysis is another solution for people who don't want to worry about 
daily maintenance.   A neighbor of mine is getting the fur from under his
jaw and on his neck, permanently removed, because it hurts when bends his
head down.  However, he's continuing to shave...Those little strands of
protein are important to a man's self-image, no doubt.  :-)  I shouldn't
jest, they really are.

Another topic, based on the first solution:
  The convenience of not shaving is probably not worth the hassle of not 
being universally accepted.  So, F*CK 'em, you may say, I don't have to
justify my reasons to anybody!  That's not exactly the world's greatest 
attitude (though one I have seen often on the net!).  It's a real turn-off,
no wonder this topic is in net.SINGLES!  Besides, the men who have that 
attitude usually have the scraggliest-looking, most unkempt beards!!!!  :-)

  I am less likely to strike up a spontaeneous conversation with a bearded
man than with a clean cut man, and even less likely as the beard is more
unkempt, and many people feel the same way.  One reason is that humans
and other mammals respond protectively to babyish (neotinized) features.
Domesticated animals especially differ from their counterparts in the wild 
in this respect.  This implies that animals with neotinized features are more 
likely to survive the helpless stage, to later breed.  Humans are the most 
domesticated animals of them all.  A unkempt, bearded man looks, well, more 
feral (not virile) than his clean cut counterpart.  This can be enough to
deter other people from becoming aware of the fact that there may be a 
warm, loving, caring, sensitive, brilliant, humourous, and wonderful human
being beneath all the fur.  One limits the number of potential acquaintances 
by having a beard, especially an unkempt one.  Hard fact, but it holds true.

  That is not not to say that there is no justification for the cultivation of 
facial fur!  I consider that the best reasons for growing a beard are:
Very undistinguished jawline.  (Use natural camoflauge to conceal deficiencies.)
Cultural norm.  (Desire to "fit in" with the male population of a society.)
Cold weather.  (Not exactly a threat in Southern California, but New Hampshire
		is a different story, right, David?  How cold *does* it get?)

  OK, so what about moustaches?  Ah, but this article is too long already,
and will probably generate some discussion (read, flames).  But, think about
it.


Cindy Paloma
(I'm all for low maintenance, but NO maintenance is another story!)
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