Men Shaving... I'll never understand

[Tony Flow MMMM]

Ill never understand this concept of men shaving. I currently have to for work (not for long) and never understood people who purposely do this for their own appearance. I think it's stupid to make a man look more feminine. Why wasn't this viewed as some sort of cross dressing 200 years ago and shunned?i might as well wear a shirt and paint my toes.

 

[shackled]

I hate shaving. My beard gets trimmed every couple months and that's it.

 

[Truktek2]

It's itchy and I don't like the feeling of a possum sleeping on my face, ergo I shave. Damn hipsters

 

[paradog]

Without looking up the history of shaving....

Shaving would be considered something done by the elite or wealthy as a way of removing the "wild" look of facial hair. You should also consider the personal hygene aspects of shaving over having a beard (not necessarly in modern days). I would also think that shaving was a way of distingishing one self from any connection with specific religious affiliation (ie. muslim or jewish).

that's all I can suggest without going to google...

 

[hrodbert696]

Au contraire, men have shaved ever since they figured out how to chip a sharp bit of flint off a block. There has ALWAYS been a swinging pendulum of fashion about whether it's more masculine to go hairy or clean. In the Middle Ages, for instance, men shaved around the year 1000, then around 1150-1250 it became fashionable to grow a beard (and long hair), and by 1400 they had gone back to being clean-shaven again.

Looking like a caveman is not the same thing as looking masculine. Do you want women to look more like "real" women and not shave their pits and legs?

 

[Thomas Kievit]

Well I'm glad I can shave my beard and mustache away. If there's something I do not like, is a un-shaved face.. Blegh!

 

[LarryO]

can't get an airtight seal on your gas mask with facial hair

 

[Chebass88]

...
Looking like a caveman is not the same thing as looking masculine. Do you want women to look more like "real" women and not shave their pits and legs?

Yeah, I don't mind.

 

[DerHoggz]

The stuff that I grow on my face isn't even close to qualifying as a beard, ergo I shave.

 

[DwaynieAD]

Some men teach their sons to shave, others teach them to be men.

 

[onosson]

I love growing out my facial hair, but I hate the feeling of food in my moustache (which would grow long enough to cover my mouth if I let it). I eat several times a day, but only need to shave a couple times a week. That's the beginning and end of it for me.

 

[carlos840]

The stuff that I grow on my face isn't even close to qualifying as a beard, ergo I shave.

+1

It takes me two weeks to grow anything remotely beardy, and still then it is full of holes and hairless patches and i look like a dirty hobo!

Shaving it is, every two to three days.

Also, i wet shave and really enjoy doing it!

 

[mbelue]

It's itchy and I don't like the feeling of a possum sleeping on my face, ergo I shave. Damn hipsters

I think some of us "should" shave and some of us "should not" shave. Based on whats best for your skin.
I had a job for a few years where shaving was mandatory. Huge safety issue, dealing with deadly gases and such. Shaving every day destroyed my skin, didn't matter how I did it, just bad.
New job, no safety concerns, no shaving, great skin. Some of us are just built to have the scruff, some not so much.

 

[NOAH_FX]

Personally i can't grow a beard... and if my Dad's any idication, i never will be able to. So i shave because it looks better than having a 17 year old's beard.. at 25

 

[VitalSigns]

+1

It takes me two weeks to grow anything remotely beardy, and still then it is full of holes and hairless patches and i look like a dirty hobo!

I'm 17 and mine comes back in just a few days...

 

[AaronMB]

can't get an airtight seal on your gas mask with facial hair

Right. Trends come and go but back in WWI it was a 'requirement' or your gas mask didn't work. The idea stuck.

 

[Kaa]

Mine now comes in grey, so I shave it to maintain my youthful look.

 

[96tbird]

When I have the urge to have hair on my face I go do... Never mind. My wife is smiling at me, gotta go.

 

[bassteban]

I usually go schmoov, except for certain times each month (*wink wink*).

 

[bassbully]

Ask most woman why men have to shave