[flitton]

I don't know how other Freeper ladies feel about facial hair or indeed how hirsute Freeper men are. But somehow I suspect that there aren't 'feminine levels of attention and grooming going on' !

[cripplecreek]

I like to keep my "stash" trimmed neatly. If I don't the wife calls me a walrus and I feel like I should be out in the ocean straining plankton from the water.

[martin_fierro]

[Sally'sConcerns]

I happen to like the look of a well kept mustache on a man. Some men can wear beards and some can't.

My son has one of those sprout beards right under his lower lip that the article refers to as the surfer beard. While I'd prefer he shave it off, it's so small I don't notice it anymore. He doesn't have a mustache and has never grown one. It would be interesting to see what he looked like with one now that I think of it.

[CzarNicky]

If you look like Jabba the Hut without a beard, you’ll look like Jabba the Hut with a beard.

Where is a picture of Michael Moore?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I never allow little, effeminate, British weenies to dictate anything to Me.
They should stick to advising those who care, like Mikey Jackson!

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

I convinced my husband to shave off his mustache and it took years off of his appearance. When people told him that he looked like he was 27 or 28 when he was 35, he decided not to grow it back. It's weird, because I don't really like beards or mustaches, but I do like it when he hasn't shaved for a couple of days and has some whiskers.

[ADemocratNoMore]

30+ years for mine, and yes, I do look like a geography teacher. Something wrong with that?.

[Professional Engineer]

— indeed, most fashion pundits have declared 2005 the year of the clean-cut look.

Nyet.

[pharmamom]

I and most of the women I know do not care for facial hair. I REALLY hate those fuzzy patches right below the lower lip--and the fuzzy mini-beards that some young kids grow just on the bottom of their chins. Yuck. Strangely enough, though, I do like that 3-days' growth look.

[Gingersnap]

Two of my brothers-in-law have the full beard thing going on and good for them (no incest for me). My husband, however, has one of those shave-twice in the summer beards and he has never grown it out. I am profoundly grateful.

Just to part ways with some of the other female FReeper comments, I absolutely hate those three days growing-it-out type beards. It's no fun to kiss a guy with a "vacation whiskers" and it looks kind of sloppy. Grow it all out or shave it all off but lose the lazy college student look.