Beardo Manifesto

All you folk/punk loving ladies out there will remember, perhaps not so fondly, Bitch & Animal's "Pussy Manifesto" song. Last night I was tipped off to the male equivalent: Whiskerino, a website where men celebrate themselves through charting the growth of their facial hair.

Here is an excerpt from their manifesto:

We are alienated from our own facial hair.

Society tells us that full beards are unacceptable. Businessmen, politicians, bankers, and the like are all clean shaven; all demonstrating the standards that middle class society expects us to maintain.

In other words, these are all examples of "the man" keeping down nascent beards everywhere. These are the people that alienate us from our masculinity, forcing us to shave and adopt public personas which might not reflect our own true inner animal.

What a rousing call to freedom. Take back your beards, brave men, creepy as they may look.