How Beards Pander to a Double Standard

With men, choosing to be bearded or clean-shaven seems to be a matter of preference. With women, everything we do is loaded with meaning.

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It’s interesting how trends shift over the years. Where a mustache was once stylish, we now see it as an oddity. Hairstyles for women go in and out of fashion. Hoop earrings and winged eyeliner dart in and out of vogue.

Where once a bearded man would stand out as unusual (or ungroomed, depending), we have an entire cul…