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2014-05-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by badanov 2014-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 I have a beard, I can change a tire,shoot a rifle or pistol and all else, I'm a Master Mechanic AND a Machinist, if i can't fix it, I'll make a new one. And I have enough smarts to do whatever I want.

And, I'm currently building a Solar System.
(House power)

So this doesn't apply to me. (Thank god

So there.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-05-07 00:37|| 2014-05-07 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I would have a beard... if it didn't bug the everloving shit out of me.

I sure as fuck wouldn't groom it other than trim it so it didn't look like I was a castaway.

Better question for this lady is... if this guy with a beard was dropped in the middle of nowhere with a 20' section of 550 cord and a multi tool, could he survive a couple weeks and get back to civilization (assuming he wouldn't just go native and stay in the wild).

If the answer is no, he is a man child and needs to be reviled as one.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-05-07 00:47|| 2014-05-07 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Real city balls is walking down Newbury Street or around Harvard Square in your National Review t-shirt...

Posted by Raj 2014-05-07 01:25|| 2014-05-07 01:25|| Front Page Top

#4 We the bearded do not give a shit about your lady problems with our beards. Instead, spend some time getting pretty, while we shoot stuff and fix broken things.

Posted by rammer 2014-05-07 01:37|| 2014-05-07 01:37|| Front Page Top

#5 This caused me to wonder what message jaw shavers are trying to evoke. I mean, hair grows all over the body but some choose to only shave it off the jaw (and other parts).

Don't know the answer but for me but the beard is my message that I find it less work/time than keeping it properly shaved.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-05-07 06:05|| 2014-05-07 06:05|| Front Page Top

#6 I think that it's clear that this lady doesn't have any problems with manly beards.

What she has a problem with is with "vegan nancyboys" pretending to be manly men by growing beards. Kinda like cross-dressing.

Personally I think my beard goes very well with my hammers, chisels and power tools and it probably smells like sawdust.

Raj, if you really want brave make it an NRA or Tea Party tee shirt. ;^)

Posted by AlanC 2014-05-07 08:02|| 2014-05-07 08:02|| Front Page Top

#7 The only things she left out was the Man-skirt (not to be confused with a real, honest-to-God Kilt)and the Murse (far too many of them in PugetSoundostan)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-05-07 08:30|| 2014-05-07 08:30|| Front Page Top

#8 ...not to be confused with Sasquatch.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2014-05-07 09:40|| 2014-05-07 09:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Murse, not to be confused with a grenade satchel. Frowned upon by TSA friskers.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2014-05-07 09:46|| 2014-05-07 09:46|| Front Page Top

#10 I read this a couple days ago or whatnot and was laughing so hard the kids quit their playthings to see what I was laughing about.

Then read the comments. There are people out there taking the wrong things too seriously. I think the point of this op/ed; the wussification of the Man.

I have a three letter reason why I have no beard: SCBA. Last I was in hipsterville, this article nails it - them ain't beards, themz balldusters.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-07 10:55|| 2014-05-07 10:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Balldusters. Dont care who you are thats funny.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-05-07 11:16|| 2014-05-07 11:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Very Fuuunnnnnyyyyyy!
I wear a beard (or should I say, the beard lets me carry it!) and brush it to keep the tangles down but by god I am not a SISSY!
Oh, yes, I draw the line at kilts and "personal" shavers. Itchy, itchy.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2014-05-07 11:51|| 2014-05-07 11:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe we need a PhD in masculinity program. Change tires. Catch and clean fish. Drive a stick. Develop some minimum level of upper body strength. Eschew sports which require shaving ones legs. BBQ competence. Know how to shoot and clean a gun. Basically, everything which makes you a better person and which the Left hates. Make those pussies earn their beard.

Posted by Iblis 2014-05-07 12:51|| 2014-05-07 12:51|| Front Page Top

#14 ^^^^^^^^^That

d. Properly cuss a lawnmower
5. Assemble a socket set worth stealing
vi. Own a great dawg at some point in your life and cry about it in private
Seven. Be fierce around mice
1000. Tip heavily when you can

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-07 13:19|| 2014-05-07 13:19|| Front Page Top

#15 Open and hold a door for a lady. A real lady not just if they,re a female.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-05-07 13:57|| 2014-05-07 13:57|| Front Page Top

#16 Check out .....

http://touch.artofmanliness.com

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-05-07 14:00|| 2014-05-07 14:00|| Front Page Top

#17 I love a well-kempt beard on a man (not a scraggly one or one of those Smith Brothers bushes).

What I can't stand is the so-called "beards" that are really just a 2- or 3-day growth. Talk about razor burn!

I don't care if you don't want to shave, but don't try to kiss me until you do, or until you grow an actual beard.

Posted by Barbara 2014-05-07 14:12|| 2014-05-07 14:12|| Front Page Top

#18 Poor girl needs to get out of the city for a weekend. Come out here to the flyover states where men wear beards because they want to, not because they think it will attract some superficial bitch. Girls problem is she likes city life and all those drinks with silly names. You cant have both, you cant live in NYC or DC and hang out with real men. If you want a real man you have to get out of there, they are dirty, chauvinistic, and when they two step they will lead and you better follow or you will be gone. If your OK with that I have some guys down here that you would love to meet.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-05-07 15:55|| 2014-05-07 15:55|| Front Page Top

#19 I can't seem to grow a beard. It gets about just-over-stubble long and just stops (and itches) so I shave. (Besides the wife want's it that way).

I figure either have one - or don't.

Wasn't there a story here a few weeks ago about hipsters who are getting hair transplants (from other parts of their body to their chin) in order to grow a beard?

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-05-07 15:58|| 2014-05-07 15:58|| Front Page Top

#20 What Pan said.

Posted by Barbara 2014-05-07 21:08|| 2014-05-07 21:08|| Front Page Top

#21 Buzzed mine off for so many years. Mil Regs.

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