Beards have long been thought to confer masculinity on its wearer, especially as a reaction to times of crisis
  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
    251·
    2 months ago

    Couch Fucker wears a beard because he’s a piss baby. He thinks that it makes him look more manly than the pudge does.

    I wear a beard for 2 reasons. 1. I am lazy. 2. I saw Jeremiah Johnson as a kid and that big bushy grizzly adams beard was the coolest shit ever.

    We are not the same.

    • xmunk
      7·
      2 months ago

      I base my worth (partially) off the fact that at a sci-fi convention I once had my hair braided into my side burns. That’s a fucking badass memory.

      • stringere
        1·
        2 months ago

        Growing my beard now. Wonder how long until I can braid my hair into it…

        • xmunk
          2·
          2 months ago

          I will warn you that it doesn’t quite work how you’d think… I’d say I have a beard thick enough to avoid shaming a dwarf - but when my hair was braided in it was pretty fine and tight and looked more elven.

    • eestileib
      21·
      2 months ago

      He looks way better with the beard than without.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
    16·
    2 months ago

    what it means to be a man

    We must be swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, mysterious as the dark side of the moon.

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
    101·
    2 months ago

    Idk, I wear a short beard because I think I look better with one than without one. To wear your facial hair a certain way for any other reason is just wild to me.

  • futatorius@lemm.ee
    8·
    2 months ago

    I have a crappy beard, but at least it doesn’t make me look like a hamster like Vance’s does.

  • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Lmao as a beard-haver myself: are the authors really encouraging us to take notes from that idiot heterosectional on literally anything? Because my reaction to basically anything that chucklefuck does is to point and laugh, regardless of the topic or context. It’s one of the most effective nonviolent tactics against fascists, after all.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    12·
    2 months ago

    TLDR:

    While Vance has portrayed himself as a working man’s candidate, his selective criticism of corporate power is at best a secondary act in a more encompassing tirade against 21st-century modernity, whose primary sin has been to dismantle nuclear families supported by a child-rearing woman and make men miserable in the process. In that sense, Vance’s beard meets the moment of his party – one that, like some of its 16th century forebears, seeks to project toughness, aggression and grievance in an age where Republicans perceive masculinity as an endangered value. It doesn’t matter that Vance is friends with largely beardless Silicon Valley billionaires or provided legal representation to big pharmaceutical companies that fueled much of the opioid crisis that Republicans blame on immigrants – his performance has persuaded his supporters that he is the rugged everyman, and the beard is one of his most important props.