Study: Men with Facial Hair are Perceived as More Sexist

The Social Memo ^ | 6/17/15 | Aurelius

[rightistight]

A study released last month suggests that, regardless of actual personal actions or beliefs, men with facial hair are perceived as being more sexist than those without.

Written by Rebekah Herrick, a professor at Oklahoma State University, the study showed candidates pictures of men in Congress with and without facial hair. They were also shown on a scale, including clean-shaven men, men with stubble, men with mustaches, and men with full beards.

"Pictured members of Congress with facial hair were perceived by our student subjects as more masculine, and less supportive of feminist issue positions, although not more willing to support deployment of force," she wrote. In other words, according to people's perceptions, men with beards are less "concerned" with the plight of women.

"These stereotypes, in turn, may affect the electability of politicians with beards or mustaches," Dr. Herrick continued. "Our experimental results did not show that men with facial hair were less electable overall than men without beards or mustaches. But women and self-identified feminists among our experimental subjects said they were less likely to vote for the politicians with facial hair."

[NorthstarMom]

You have been blessed with a good wife. My husband has had a well trimmed beard since I met him, he has grown it out a few times and once it gets long...I can’t handle it anymore. I like the idea, just not the feel of it.

[School of Rational Thought]

There are other studies saying women think men with beards are more trustworthy.

Straight women like the beard.

I have a handlebar mustache. Women are always coming up to me and telling how much they like it and my beard (although their putting their hands on me is getting to be annoying).

The number of women who do actively express their admiration is just a sample of a greater number that like it and don’t say anything.

[dljordan]

“The prophecies tell of a great mustached President who will rise to destroy socialism, you’ll see!! “

That’s great, I love it. That was a quatrain from ‘Nostrildamus’, right?

[dljordan]

“That’s because they’re asserting the social construct of their patriarchal hegemony over women by having facial hair, because (most) women can’t grow it, too.”

My wife said something like that one time but I told her to bring me a sandwich and that’s the last I heard of it.

[Terry L Smith]

Teddy Roosevelt, McKinley, and Garfield all wore moustaches.
IF!! you look up a lot of old real ‘Old West’ pictures, you will find a lot of men with moustaches.

The phallacy (yes, I said that!) of equating men wearing facial hair with the misplaced ideology of sexism, which comes from a offset female mindset, is terrible, unless your name is Snidely Whiplash.

Metrosexualism demands that men do NOT have facial hair, and keep that boyish, childish look.