Nov. 18 Have Sex with a guy with a mustache day

Do a lot of women like goatees?
You see so many married guys with them.

 

Here's the thing with goatees: It's not that they inherently look bad; it's that they're creepy. A single guy with a goatee is only doing it to impress women. Everyone knows it. Single guys care about their appearance only in as much as it can help them get laid. Now, many women are fine with that. They see that level of grooming (chinstrap beards and noticable use of hair gel fall into this category as well) as a sign that a guy is trying. Other women and all non-creepy men view it as desperate and shallow. I hate most guys in their 20s and 30s with goatees or spiked hair or meticulously kept beards because I know how much time and vanity that takes.

But married men, particularly in their 50s and 60s, are different. When I see an older man who is happily married breaking out a goatee or a manicured beard, I view it more as the guy trying to prove something to himself than to women, trying to prove that he's still got it, even if he doesn't need it. That's not creepy. It might border on pathetic, but it's not creepy. It's like married women of the same age breaking out the uncomfortable high heels. Really, a goatee is the male equivalent of uncomfortable high heels. The difference is women like to look good for themselves. Men, at least single men, like to look good for women.

 

And, yes, I realize how judgmental and generalist that was. Deal with it.

 

So you're into the soul patch?

 

Maybe the stinger.

 

To paraphrase Versatile, they inherently look bad and they are creepy.

SoCal has a very good point. I love Toby Ziegler despite his facial hair.

 

We'll always have Toby, Amy.

 

Goatees are for closers!

 

Richard Schiff has a goatee/beard because he has a weak chin that betrays incompetence and lack of character.



There's nothing masculine or confident about that chin. He's hiding his greatest weakness.