• nyankas@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    After spending ten minutes on the toilet pondering, I think „growing facial hair“ is the best counter-example I can come up with.

    Or I just don‘t know enough women who like growing facial hair.

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      19 hours ago

      That’s simple. Growing facial hair isn’t cool, it’s facial hair itself that’s cool.
      Someone with a big walrusy Wilford Brimly moustache is cooler than someone who’s working on growing a moustache.

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        16 hours ago

        Well groomed, long hair, like well-maintained, thick, stretched earlobes, communicate patience and the ability to finesse your way through difficult, potentially uncomfortable situations in service of a larger, long term goal. Unfortunately, you can be very patient at becoming an asshole as well as becoming a decent, well rounded person. Facial hair doesn’t make you cool. Being a cool person makes you cool.

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      17 hours ago

      As an enby I respectfully disagree. I personally don’t enjoy the stage of facial hair where it looks like crap but I like beards and if I could make it past that stage without chopping it off I think I would very much enjoy letting it grow.

      Very good suggestion though.

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          6 hours ago

          I’m not a woman and wasn’t claiming to be. People can be only partially female I think there’s labels like demigirl and genderfluid which are relatively common and can fit the partially/sometimes female if you want to do further research. (Also Sometimes I do feel rather fem myself)

          So enbies can be “women lite” but it’s an umbrella term for anyone that isn’t just (not meant in a negative way) male/female.

          The problem here seems to arise from the assumption that non male people would be women.

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      19 hours ago

      I know someone who has given up on figuring out what their gender is. They’ll happily accept any pronouns but hear “she/her” most often due to their appearance. She wants a beard so bad, and already grows a tiny mustache.

      So basically your 10 minutes were for naught

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        16 hours ago

        Tell them to watch some YouTube videos on growing facial hair with the use of minoxidil. The foam kind is best.

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      1 day ago

      I’m very glad for my eyebrows and eyelashes, and there’s that Sikh woman (relevant because of the religious ban on cutting hair) whose wedding picture went viral like a decade ago. She had a pretty full beard and had styled it beautifully with small flowers woven into it.

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      21 hours ago

      I would really love to have a beard. I have joked that I am clearly wishing I were a dwarven woman, because besides this, I am very happy with my assigned gender at birth

      I also have a friend who, due to hormonal stuff, naturally grows an extremely thick and impressive beard and wishes that they didn’t have to shave it (if they don’t, they get hate crimed :( )

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      1 day ago

      Not a woman, but I know an agender person who’s super hyped to get facial hair.

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        1 day ago

        Some of us were doing facial hair before it was cool…

        … And some of us started going bald in their teens and wanted beards to help cover up double chins and a tiny mouth but did enjoy a brief period of looking like white Jesus before that happened 🧔‍♀️

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          Personally I come from a long line of hairy fuckers. Clean shaven is not an option because it literally grows back in less than a day. Plus I like the beard had it for decades.

          As hairy as my face is, I’m thankful I didn’t get the hairy back gene. My legs, chest and ass though, I’m kind of like a satyr without hooves.

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      23 hours ago

      Using a cup while playing sports? I don’t know if it’s a like though…