This is a pretty old pic but

This is a pretty old pic but. I don’t love my beard. The awful thing about being a man is the need to break away from harmful stereotypes about, um, other men. The finger never points back at you in other words.

Facial hair is just a plain inconvenience. There’s nothing nice about it, but let’s just say that we’ve made the most of it. The worst part of the whole situation is having to look at your hairy face in the mirror, first thing in the morning. Every morning. A lot of the time you know the guy needs to evolve, and that it’s scientifically impossible.

The most outrageous beard must belong to Michelangelo’s Moses. It kind of looks like large intestines flowing from around his mouth all the way to his waist. To add to the almost demonic countenance, this old Moses from 1515 has horns.

Moses is the most Steam Punk dude on earth. In my mind I see him partying in the outback, not leading the Israelites over dunes in the Sinai. In reality, he and his people were a precursor to Burning Man. Or they could have been extras in the original Mad Max feature from 1979: Moses and Mel Gibson against the world.

The point is, in art — European and Indian — Gods had beards, and that was because they were too busy fixing up the problems of the planet to stand in front of a celestial mirror for 15 minutes in the morning. And that’s when the look of masculine authority began.

It’s only the Buddha that’s usually depicted clean shaven, because apparently he wanted to look different to the men of his day. He wanted to look laid back like the moon and not fiery like the sun - Fringe