Monday, March 15, 2010

Reason #6

I should start off by saying that right now my wife is wearing a huge sun hat that looks completely ridiculous. As a gentleman I am supposed to refrain from commenting, because otherwise I would be in the "dog house." Why is it that if I wore something like that, or any man in general, she would be allowed to say something about how bad it looks but I can't say anything to her? I thought our country was all about equal rights and privileges for men and women, but when it comes to style experimentation, especially with hair, the situation is anything but equal. It's interesting that women can cut and dye their hair in all kinds of bizarre colors and shapes, but men aren't allowed the same freedom of hair experimentation without serious social repercussions. While I say this, I do recognize that there has been an increasing number of men who have been growing their hair out and making changes like wearing a mustache or beard, but the percentage of men who get away with this is very small.
The most common response when I ask someone why they don't try and grow a mustache is that they don't have permission from their significant other. I hate to break it to you, but for the most part, women are completely unfair with their hair experimentation standards. There have been numerous times where my wife has experimented with her hair and the results have been, well lets just say that they weren't terrific. How come when women do this men are supposed to be supportive and accepting regardless of their true opinion, but men are not shown the same courtesy? Why don't women let men grow a mustache? Why can't the same tolerance be shown by both parties? As far as I can tell the discrepancy is fairly absurd. (I also should say that my wife is an exception; she is fully supportive of me having a mustache and would also let me grow a huge beard if I wanted to.)
My last and final reason why every man should grow a mustache at some point is because we can, and by doing so we help bridge the gap of hair experimentation inequality. We need to break the chains of restrictions and be free, to a certain extent. I apologize if I have made generalizations about women, but I feel I have a solid point. And I once read in a certain book that the guilty take the truth to be pretty hard.

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