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Lumbersexuals: Your Beard Doesn’t Make You Masculine
http://leomcneil.net/2014/11/17/lumbersexuals-your-beard-doesnt-make-you-masculine/ ^ | November 17, 2014 | Leo McNeil

Posted on 11/17/2014 4:43:47 AM PST by LeoMcNeil

Have you noticed men wearing extremely long Civil War style beards lately? The so-called lumbersexual is essentially engaging in a pop-culture extreme overreaction to the metrosexual. You’ll recall the metrosexuals are generally straight men who spend an excessive amount of time on grooming and their clothes. In some ways the metrosexual mirrors certain aspects of the homosexual culture in this regard. The lumbersexual, in extreme overreaction to the metrosexual, has decided that the beard is the height of masculinity and demonstrate that masculinity in extreme manner. Both the metrosexual and the lumbersexual are just following the crowd, very few of them actually think for themselves. In the case of the lumbersexual, he’s adopted an absurd definition of masculinity.

We live in a society wherein everyone insists they’re unique and special, with many believing their clothing and appearance demonstrate their unique specialness. Of course the people insisting they’re unique the loudest are usually the ones who look exactly like everyone else in their little sub group. The goth’s are a good example, they insist on their uniqueness and yet every last one of them looks identical. They’re aren’t unique, they’re just following the crowd without admitting it. The same has always been true of the metrosexual, who pretends that his interest in grooming sets him apart from all the other men who in his mind are slobs. In reality, all the metrosexuals look identical. They wear the same style of clothing and groom themselves in relatively the same manner. There’s nothing unique about them as individuals, they’re following the trends of a particular group.

The so-called lumbersexuals are no different. Tired of men spending more time in the bathroom grooming themselves than women, these men have decided to grow long beards and care little of their appearance. Yet in doing so they aren’t demonstrating anything unique about themselves. All they’re doing is showing the world that they to can follow cultural trends. These days it’s popular for men to demonstrate their masculinity via a beard, so the lumbersexuals all have obnoxiously long beards. Congratulations guys, you to can follow cultural trends while pretending to be unique. Worse, you imagine you’re making some sort of statement against men behaving in a vaguely feminine way. In doing so, the lumbersexuals have accepted the progressive notion that every single daily event is a political statement. We need not make political statements to the world via our grooming and clothing. Yet the lumbersexuals as a group are doing just that.

You don’t prove your masculinity via your beard. It makes no sense for men to settle for such a superficial and cheap definition of masculinity. Yet the lumbersexuals, in their extreme overreaction to the metrosexuals, are cheapening masculinity to the point where a beard defines it. A man, it appears, is nothing more than a beard. Why are these men, who apparently are interested in demonstrating masculinity, allowing such to be defined in such an irrelevant manner? Masculinity isn’t demonstrated by a beard, it’s demonstrated in how a man treats a woman, how he loves his children and most importantly in how he loves Jesus Christ. A beard is frankly irrelevant to masculinity. You can love your children and God with or without a beard, it really matters not. You can treat women in a chivalrous manner with or without a beard. Why are we allowing progressives to cheapen masculinity to our beards?

Of course no one sporting a long beard and calling themselves masculine has spent a moment thinking about how they’ve cheapened masculinity. They’re just following the crowd, the same as the metrosexuals, the goths, the hipsters and so on. No one bothers to think about anything they’re doing these days, they just react with emotion and follow everyone else. That’s ultimately the problem here, no one thinks for themselves anymore. That doesn’t stop people from imaging they’re special snowflakes or unique individuals while they follow the crowd. It says a lot about education in this country, the government schools in particular aren’t teaching kids to think. As a result we have a legion of men growing obnoxiously long beards while believing they’re making a statement against overly groomed men. Worse, they believe their beard is a sign of their masculinity. No wonder our nation is in such bad shape.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: culture; lumbersexual; metrosexual; progressives
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To: LeoMcNeil
You’ll recall the metrosexuals are generally straight closeted gay men who spend an excessive amount of time on grooming and their clothes.

There.

41 posted on 11/17/2014 6:13:49 AM PST by MNnice
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To: raybbr
"Only about 1% of men who grow a beard have their appearance enhanced by a beard. The rest look like they’re hiding their face"

Years before my birth, my dad was in a car accident. He hit his face on the dash or windshield and destroyed his chin. It was only years later, when he got a wild hair and shaved off his beard, did we all notice his smashed up face.

Everyone was extremely taken aback, to put it mildly. Some ladies even gasped when they saw him beardless for the first time ever.

He responded to popular opinioon and grew it back; I consider it a medical waiver.

42 posted on 11/17/2014 6:16:14 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: LeoMcNeil
The so-called lumbersexual

"So called" by whom, exactly? Who invents these idiotic terms?

43 posted on 11/17/2014 6:18:38 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: LeoMcNeil

I had one when I met my wife. She doesn’t like it when I shave. I did go clean shaven once when my oldest boy was about 2, and it scared him!


44 posted on 11/17/2014 6:19:48 AM PST by gop4lyf (Claire Wolfe called. She said the Awkward Phase is over.)
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To: cva66snipe

I hate shaving, but my beard looks like a bunch of rabid Brillo pads are gnawing at my face. I shave so I won’t hear little girls scream, “Mommy! The Brillo Pads have gone feral!”

:>(


45 posted on 11/17/2014 6:21:59 AM PST by Mr Rogers
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To: Daveinyork

“Then there are those who deliberately have five o’clock shadow all day”

Like the guys on the TV show “Lost”. They always had 4 days of stubble. Same thing in the first few seasons of the “Walking Dead”. They finally got it right this season with Ricks scraggly beard.


46 posted on 11/17/2014 6:22:16 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: NorthMountain

I’d say, if it makes liberals mad or uncomfortable,

that right there tells you it’s the right thing to do.


47 posted on 11/17/2014 6:25:01 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: LeoMcNeil
"You can love your children and God with or without a beard, it really matters not. "

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This is the essence of it isn't it?  I would be more confortable having a drink with a "lunbersexual" type compared to a man who shaves his chest and legs. : - )

 

48 posted on 11/17/2014 6:27:30 AM PST by OneHun
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To: LeoMcNeil

The poster boy for this currently is Willie Geist on PMSNBC Morning Joe...talk about a “fail”.


49 posted on 11/17/2014 6:28:34 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$)
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To: LeoMcNeil; GeronL
At this point a beard couldn't hurt.


50 posted on 11/17/2014 6:28:42 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: LeoMcNeil

“Masculinity isn’t demonstrated by a beard, it’s demonstrated in how a man treats a woman, how he loves his children and most importantly in how he loves Jesus Christ. A beard is frankly irrelevant to masculinity.”

The author just doesn’t get it: Culturally we gave up control of the definition of masculinity to Political Correctness. The old definition excluded women, y’see. So a beard IS definitive of masculinity....NOW!


51 posted on 11/17/2014 6:30:41 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: LeoMcNeil
lots of assumptions in this - almost sounds like someone that cannot grow a beard screaming like a child at those who choose to

declaring there can be only one reason to grow a beard - insecurity about masculinity - some men look better with a beard - faces with a weak chin or jawline - some people have long faces and choose a hair style that is flattering for their face

following any trend is condemned? eyeroll

but really - this?

“No wonder our nation is in such bad shape.”

you can find a link between the downfall of the nation and a beard?

52 posted on 11/17/2014 6:35:39 AM PST by sloop (don't touch my junk)
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To: LeoMcNeil

Shaving says a lot about a man, like “I am not one.”


53 posted on 11/17/2014 6:38:57 AM PST by bluetick
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To: Daveinyork
"Dr. Laura once noted that people claiming to be doing their own thing in the 1960’s were doing the same thing as a lot of other people. "

It's not rebellion if everyone is doing it; IT'S CONFORMITY !

A good example is the way Cosmo forces young women to dress the exact same way.

54 posted on 11/17/2014 6:40:09 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: LeoMcNeil
Ahhhh yes. Get up, stumble into the bathroom and stand in front of a steamed-up mirror to take a sharpened piece of steel and scrape the hair off your face. Prove your Manhood!

The whole "lumbersexual" concept was generated by some simpering pissant who desperately tries to justify themselves by finding some reason to tie someone's appearance to their sexuality while having their own secret relationship with their No-No...

So spare me the dime-store shrinkdom.

I'm not getting my back/chest/arms/any other parts waxed, either.

As for a beard, mine was far longer long before this trend (think 25 years ago), back when I had to braid it to keep it from obstructing my vision while riding my motorcycle.

I wore it then because it pleased me to do so. If I wear one now, (aside from keeping frostbite away) it is for the same reason.

What the author doesn't understand, is that I couldn't care less what stupid conclusions they draw from relatively superficial things, except to note that they are remarkably shallow in their view of people.

55 posted on 11/17/2014 6:46:43 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: LeoMcNeil

I have had a beard since 1979. I have smoked a pipe nearly as long. I have always worn flannel shirts. I play the banjo.

A friend in New York City calls me a proto-hipster because a lot of the hipsters out there have adopted my “style” and habits. I don’t know that like being mistaken for an old hipster, but I figure in a couple of years the hipsters will all be doing something else.


56 posted on 11/17/2014 6:46:43 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: sloop
you can find a link between the downfall of the nation and a beard?

Exactly. All great points. It sounds like this was penned by someone who is very insecure about their own masculinity.

57 posted on 11/17/2014 6:49:03 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: T-Bone Texan
A good example is the way Cosmo forces young women to dress the exact same way.

Actually, the fashionista herd, from boutique to Wal-mart, 'designs' clothes which are marketed at almost all levels which essentially back young women into a corner: they wear what is available.

Essentially, the decisions are made long before a young lady approaches the clothing section because so little else is available.

58 posted on 11/17/2014 6:52:29 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: LeoMcNeil

I have a goatee and a mustache. I have them because I like them. I shaved off my goatee about 6 months ago for a job interview, but grew it back after I was told that there was no problem having one at work (food service).

Just wish there wasn’t so much grey in it.


59 posted on 11/17/2014 6:54:20 AM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: LeoMcNeil

Whining about other people’s inconsequential fashions doesn’t make you a shallow idiot.

It might be a good indicator though.


60 posted on 11/17/2014 6:57:42 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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