#like it happens to all genders ykno. its more common in guys but it is genuinely universal

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Beards/facial hair are such a mystery to me. Because I know dudes like Conrad who could go weeks without shaving and only barely look sort of scruffy for it…but then there’re guys like my little brother and my uncle, who look like Babylonian Kings without trying and had full beards by 16 and 13 respectively. Like ??? who is deciding these things.

bruh it is kinda wild just how Mystery Genes the whole thing is. guys in my family have that surfer dudebro chin patch we have to shave once a week, but fucking nothing grows anywhere else - until we reach the age of like 35+, and then the Mystery Full Beard gene activates for reasons only god knows

and then theres other guys like in ur fam who hit puberty and bam, full beard, which is also wild as hell. 13yo w a full beard is insane but it happens for sure. and yet other guys start patchy and the Mystery Full Beard Gene just never activates ever

i kinda hate that growing a full beard has been tied to trad masculinity shit cause it is literally just a game of chance. same thing w male pattern baldness, so many guys have their self esteem broken when they start balding at 16 or whatever. and ppl are so quick to judge guys over it, as if having a thinning hairline has a say in what kinda person you are