I can't complain but sometimes I still do
Those Post-Crescent online peeps don't quit! My Under 30 column is already up and ready to be read. It's about beards and body hair, so read at your own caution, ladies. It might get a little hot for you.
posted by Steve Hyden @ 11:39 AM
I can't complain but sometimes I still do
My name is Steve and I'm a newspaper reporter and writer living in northeast Wisconsin, which is just below the armpit created by the bulk of the state and the peninsula. I don't live in the actual armpit, which is Green Bay, which is a place where fat people sit on their porches and watch traffic go by when the Packers aren't in season. I live in Appleton, a place where slightly less fat people do slightly more interesting things, like watch NASCAR, which is traffic with better camera work. I like living here 79 percent of the time. I fancy myself a deep thinker, an iconoclast, a man who can enjoy both high and low culture. Think Chuck Klosterman with a dose of Jack Nicholson from "Five Easy Pieces." However, I suspect I am not nearly as cool as I think I am. I may in fact be a dork. For example, look at how I described myself a few sentences earlier. What can I say? I'm the guy who started listening to the Clash when he was 13 not because he was reacting against the repressive Republican regime he had lived under most of his life, but because John Cusack wore a Clash T-shirt in "Say Anything..."
8 Comments:
I think this article is basically right on the mark. More of my female friends seem to be interested in bearded men or men with longer hair all the time. Some beards which I find a bit extreme don't send the ladies away, and I have found letting my beard out a little (to what some tell me is a "Grizzly Adams" look) doesn't bring the obvious response, "are you going to shave?" like it used to.
Now, I do think it's worth noting that beards are not for everyone. Some ladies still prefer the smoothness that only a quad-blade shave can muster. And some guys simply grow bad beards. And mustaches -- oy vey -- mustaches are very easy to grow incorrectly. There's a fine line between manliness and perceived pedophilia.
And as for the taking off the shirt bit, I hope you've got more than hair. Heck, I can weave a nice quilt design into my chest with a little food coloring. But the blinding whiteness is unforgivable. It's like a light bulb with mold. Not exactly something you want to curl up against at night.
Women may dig the Paul Bunyans of the world, but they still seem to shy away from the scrawny, pale Rubik's Cube team captains. But, maybe our time will come.
I love a good beard. The drawback to a beard on your loved one is that nasty chafing after kissing. Now this is only a problem if your S.O. has that wiry terrier facial hair, like mine does. So I ask that obvious question: "are you going to shave?"
Because my face is all about self-preservation.
jen, I also like chest hair. There's a manly sexiness in it. Back hair, on the other hand, is not so sexy. I remember a guy I sang with in college had a fro sneaking out the neck of his shirt. It was all I could do not to slyly trim it during rehearsals. I bet your friend gains a certain sense of satisfaction helping the hairy become silky smooth.
If a man has sexy chest hair, there's a good chance he's also gonna have a little back fuzz. Gotta take the good with the bad, my sistas!
Despite their astonishing masculinity and virilty, Steve, I'm pretty sure that Burt Reynolds and The Hasselhoff are familiar with wax. So, I think I really can take the good with the good.
I have nothing to say on this matter other than Jen's picture again reminded me that I should stay away from brown liquor. Yikes.
Hey, come on... don't hassle the Hoff.
I'm the esthetician.
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