What is with this out of nowhere obsession with beards?

Why was no one saying this five years ago when it was not the in thing?

[c=#003BB2]if you knew me 5 years ago, you would have heard about my fascination with beards. i don't know about the trend of liking them but i always have liked them since i was a lil kid ever since i seen a music video of zz top[/c]

@PlumBerries: Up until several years ago shaving was the massive majority, and then several years ago, society decided that beards should be attractive. I think it is a bad sign, going hand in hand with the devolving of music and other cultural areas of life.

[c=#003BB2]beards have always been attractive when looked after. don't care what society deems attractive but its not some trend for me. I'm attracted to them, cant help it. My boyfriend has a beard and i can tell you that he isn't lazy at all. he takes a lot of time grooming that magical rug on his face[/c]

@PlumBerries: I am sure you genuinely like beards. But I don't think one can deny the fact how in the last several years it has become a trend and many have sheeped along with it, many feeling it makes them as interesting as a true intellectual. There was a time where everyone you saw on TV, bar the odd person, was clean shaven, I even remember when I had bad acne as a teen meaning i couldn't shave, and i was told i was a "bearded freak". But now, as another person pointed out, there are ads encouraging beard growth, suddenly people on ads and tv shows have beards, and it really did just come out of nowhere and it really is sheepish. I could just grow my beard if I wanted to.

[c=#003BB2]i guess it depends on what you watch on tv. beards have always been pretty common. sure its very popular right now but that trend will die like most other trends. i guarantee there will still be bearded fellows everywhere though. most who grow them don't do it for fashion..
also now that it is more accepted, maybe the people who couldn't grow them before due to whatever reasons, now can because its more socially accepted..


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@PlumBerries: I agree it's a trend and eventually it will die out. And conveniently all of a sudden you won't get people telling us all about how beards are sexy. Infact I think many who claim beards are sexy will be the first to claim beards are horrible once society shifts back to preferring clean shaven. Though I disagree, I think many do do it to to feel edgy or because it is a trend or what not, as you said, there have always been fellows that have grown beards and there never was pressure not to grow beards, yet all of a sudden people want to grow beards. Personally, whilst I think being clean shaven is better for hygiene reasons (in my entire ambulance team, which is national, we all remain clean shaven), I think one of my big issues with it is this whole "it makes someone a man" and related. As if someone not bothering to shave is more than a man than a respectable gentleman without a beard.

[c=#003BB2]yeah the whole beard makes you a man thing is stupid. i wouldn't pay any attention to that.. the trend will die eventually and move on to the next trend.
when i first met my boyfriend he had a amazing medium length beard and shortly after we started dating, he shaved it cause he was sick of people calling him a hipster or being questioned about it with a trend and so on.. thankfully he has been growing it back though , well because i love the feel and look of beards.. but I'm good either way, beard or no beard.. just prefer beards lol

message me when the trend is dead and i guarantee i will still be saying the same lol[/c]

@PlumBerries: I am sure you will be. Though you have not been replying to the last several messages I sent you. I don't pay attention to it, it is stupid, but a lot of people buy into it, and this generation of younger people are very emotionally blackmailing, socially stigmatizing descent. There is this current social movement (and the corporations that support it love it because it means they continue to make money whilst others don't as they feel they are doing all they need to do by being "hip") that tells us "look dont overthink things, dont try, just get a tattoo, grow a cool beard, don't try too hard, peace brother!" or whatever else they say.

[c=#003BB2]do you mean inboxes? if that's the case, sorry at times i don't check through a lot of inbox messages, i get sent so many messages mostly from trolls and so on that i don't normally scroll through most of them. sorry about that, wasn't avoiding you i promise.

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