Yeah this is a load of BS
Mr johnnycakes is just stirring the shit pot.
Definitely got a point regarding trendy hipsters growing beards, but majority of beard owners have nill to do with this!
Partly, yeah. It doesn't annoy as much as I make out it does, but I knew that if I threw this one out there I would find a lot of people firmly planted on either side of the fence and happy to put forth on it.
And you're right, the majority of beards are normal, as a matter of fact I have almost a week's growth on me now, because I hate shaving. It's the people who would not have grown a bushy without it ever becoming fashionable that I'm talking about here and I think it's even gone past the hipster thing.
Remember when every tool had an Oakley sticker on their car, regardless of whether they even owned any Oakley prods? It's kind of become the same with beards, even non-hipster folk have them now. It's really and truly filtered all the way down to your average Commodore driving Kmart shopper, car mechanic, sales rep, office admin, McDonalds eating every day bloke. It's that much of a fashion trend now, and these people would never, ever have done it 7 years ago and in another few years they will have shaved it off because it's no longer "the thing". Or even worse, they will say shit like "I shaved mine off when everyone started growing one" as if they were the anti-fashionista rather than the fashion victim.
I love semiology and the way we communicate to our peers. I do it, you do it, it's the way we are. However, I never grew a fucking beard to fit in
