i convinced my friend women can grow beards too
it was one of those inane conversations that just keeps going off on a tangent. we'd gotten onto who had it worse between men and women. he'd just reasoned that men have to shave and was complaining about nicking his face on the razor.

'women have to shave too.'

'they do?!?'

'er, yeah.'

i was baffled. why was he so stunned? i was, of course, talking about legs and underarm. then it clicked that he'd strangely assumed we were just talking about faces.

'do you mean *some* women?'

'oh no, all women can grow beards, tom. the hair on their faces just grows a lot slower than men's so we don't have to shave as often.'

he marvelled. 'really?'

i kept going, wondering how long i could drag it out. i ridiculed him for not knowing such things. as it went on, i was desperately trying not to give the game away by laughing in his face. i was goggling that a twenty-year-old man who'd had several girlfriends could be falling for this.

id like to say he caught on. what really happened was that i had to laugh and go 'no! ahahahahahaha!'
(ladyintheradiator, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 19:59, 2 replies)

the women in my family can.
we all have one small chin patch that sprouts big fuckoff hairs. i never shave it, though, i just use immac.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 0:28, closed)

My Auntie
Sheila has a beard
(Evilweevil is covered in bees, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 12:09, closed)