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.
I don’t want to look like some screwy muslim.
Lot less bloody in the long run :)
Are women with hairy legs lumbersexuals?.
For me it's always been about 10 minutes of extra sleep 6 days a week (and on the 7th day he trimmed) ... and, of course, covering up the ugly.
LOLs!!
I recall an episode of the 1960’s TV show “That Girl” in which Donald, one of the main characters, grew a beard, which sparked outrage from Lew, his girl friend’s father. Lew told him that the beard made him look like a Communist and challenged him to name someone with a beard who wasn’t a Communist. Donald responded, naming Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Walt Whitman, etc., to which Lew retorted, “name one who is living.” Donald had no answer.
I haven’t the slightest clue who came up with the term “lumbersexual.”
Probably the same one who came up with the idiotic term "metrosexual."
I was thinking of that ... both terms are idiotic; the described behavior has nothing to do with sex.
Seriously: First time I saw the term "metrosexual", I thought it would have something to do with a weird fetish involving city buses.
When I first saw the headline "Paris Hilton Sex Scandal" I wondered what the French were up to ...
hahahaha
‘...there are those who believe that their beard defines their masculinity. I’m not writing about a bunch of old codgers who have had beards their entire life or the Duck Dynasty people who are generally fairly old. I’m writing about young people who are wearing beards in large numbers. They’re doing so in a desperate attempt to regain their masculinity from a overly feminized society and/or a society that really hates men and masculinity.’
says the author? is this one of those self evident facts or do we have proof
why is the why important?
According to you.
And you have a blog so it must be so.
Really, the same could be said about ‘shavers’.
To each his own. And, women find significant stubble, at least, to be sexy. Why not humor them?
Probably written by some homosexual liberal who likes shaved chest hairs, too.
Not everyone with a beard is a lumbersexual.
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