What is with this out of nowhere obsession with beards?

I am a guy, and I have thick brown hair, including my beard which grows fast, so I have every reason to sheep along to this beard worship culture. This seems to have just come out of nowhere. Beards are facial pubic hair that provides the perfect warm and moist conditions for bacteria to grow, the bacteria coming from every time you cough, eat, sneeze etc. To me it is also a sign of laziness, a "I'm not really intellectually interesting, but look I grew a beard I am so edgy!"

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NigelDoes · 56-60, M

Tell us how you really feel about beards and stop holding back for fucks sake.

pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M

They are breeding grounds for bacteria, they are lazy, and they are an attempt at attention when they don't have the intellectual abilities to gain deserved attention.

NigelDoes · 56-60, M

It was a joke dude. I do agree however that most men with beards, at least the ones I see in my neighborhood look pretty fucking awful. It's part of that whole hipster truckdriver flannel shirt bullshit or whatever the hell it is.

pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M

@NigelDoes: Definitely part of the hipster degeneracy. This generation seems to be brainwashed, and self policing themselves into the idea that one should not be intellectual, think outside of the box. Instead of making that effort, they need to get tattoos, they need to grow a beard, just anything external that doesn't actually require effort. Also, I notice how this beard growing parallels in terms of time the islamification of Europe...