# Women with a chin beard - Why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269 "2015-12-12T20:30:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/1 "2015-12-12T20:30:32Z")
The customer service woman in a store had a chin beard. It looked something like this: [http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly\_fs/1.1313615.1365690765!/img/httpImage/image.jpg\_gen/derivatives/article\_970/beard12n-1-web.jpg?enlarged](http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1313615.1365690765!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/beard12n-1-web.jpg?enlarged) I’m sure she does her job fine. But why would a woman not do something about this to remove the hair? Or is there nothing they can do and have given up? ---
**Author:** ![BigBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@BigBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/2 "2015-12-12T20:43:04Z")
> [@edwardcoast](#): > > The customer service woman in a store had a chin beard. It looked something like this: > > [http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly\_fs/1.1313615.1365690765!/img/httpImage/image.jpg\_gen/derivatives/article\_970/beard12n-1-web.jpg?enlarged](http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1313615.1365690765!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/beard12n-1-web.jpg?enlarged) > > I’m sure she does her job fine. But why would a woman not do something about this to remove the hair? Or is there nothing they can do and have given up? Some people enjoy the attention. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/3 "2015-12-12T21:01:24Z")
> [@edwardcoast](#): > > But why would a woman not do something about this to remove the hair? _:sigh:_ Why should she? ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/4 "2015-12-12T21:03:37Z")
Stray hairs could be put down to poor eyesight or trembling fingers. What you linked to is something deliberate, and I guess she likes it that way. Or else she just can’t keep up with the daily shaving, doesn’t like it, and just said, “Screw it.” My husband will go for days without shaving because it’s too difficult for him now, and looks like a bum sometimes, but he’s a man, so he doesn’t get the same scrutiny as a woman does. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/5 "2015-12-12T21:06:18Z")
> [@BigBlue](#): > > Some people enjoy the attention. Maybe, or maybe she doesn’t give a fuck what people think. ---
**Author:** ![BigBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@BigBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/6 "2015-12-12T21:20:42Z")
> [@Foggy](#): > > _:sigh:_ > Why should she? Because she is a repulsive freak of nature. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/7 "2015-12-12T21:50:48Z")
> [@BigBlue](#): > > Because she is a repulsive freak of nature. no one is actually obligated to look a certain way to satisfy you. ---
**Author:** ![LiliesOfTheField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@LiliesOfTheField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiliesOfTheField)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/8 "2015-12-12T23:21:54Z")
Thick hairs are painful and difficult to remove without leaving behind stubble, ingrown hair, scarring, etc. Women’s skin is thinner than men’s, so shaving results in more health and aesthetic problems for women than for men. Plucking is painful. Waxing is painful. Chemical removal can be painful. All three need a little stubble to work. Shaving leaves stubble. Electrolysis is expensive and doesn’t always work. Bleaching just gives you blond hair. Sometimes the best choice is to say “it’s not my problem. It’s yours.” Which was true to begin with, really. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/9 "2015-12-12T23:58:53Z")
> [@BigBlue](#): > > Because she is a repulsive freak of nature. That is your problem then, not hers. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/10 "2015-12-13T00:30:45Z")
Maybe she is the master of How Not to Give a Fuck. Which doesn’t mean she has necessarily “given up”. Rather, it probably means she saving her fucks for something more important. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/11 "2015-12-13T00:36:15Z")
> [@BigBlue](#): > > Because she is a repulsive freak of nature. Why don’t you offer to pay for her hormone medication and hair removal? Obviously it would count as a good deed, and she would no longer exist to offend your sensibilities. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/12 "2015-12-13T01:28:43Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > no one is actually obligated to look a certain way to satisfy you. But is anyone obliged to not be repulsed by behavior resulting form someone not giving a fuck what people think? ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/13 "2015-12-13T01:59:28Z")
Some people have religious beliefs which preclude them from removing or cutting their hair. There was an awesome incident a few years back where a rude person made a similar comment to the OP’s on Reddit, and was soundly schooled by other users, and the woman in the photo herself. Story [here](http://jezebel.com/5946643/reddit-users-attempt-to-shame-sikh-woman-get-righteously-schooled). As Lindy West, author of the above story says, “Women have hair on their bodies—and, yes, faces—and that some women are bold, self-assured, and pious enough not to cave to western beauty standards (and gender expectations).” ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/14 "2015-12-13T02:46:37Z")
Some women have facial hair, some men have manboobs, neither makes them repulsive. The OP has a problem of his own, one that makes him slightly distasteful, but even he is not repulsive. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/15 "2015-12-13T02:50:03Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > But is anyone obliged to not be repulsed by behavior resulting form someone not giving a fuck what people think? You are free to be “repulsed” by anything you want to be, but again that is on you. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/16 "2015-12-13T03:49:29Z")
> [@Foggy](#): > > You are free to be “repulsed” by anything you want to be, but again that is on you. But what difference does it make if I’m repulsed or not if the person I’m repulsed by has no concern for what I think? It’s like what if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it does it make a sound. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/17 "2015-12-13T04:17:06Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > But what difference does it make if I’m repulsed or not if the person I’m repulsed by has no concern for what I think? It’s like what if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it does it make a sound. Exactly. It makes no difference if you are repulsed or disapproving or whatever, because it is not about you. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/18 "2015-12-13T04:27:41Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > But is anyone obliged to not be repulsed by behavior resulting form someone not giving a fuck what people think? A beard is not behavior. Failing to maintain good hygiene or grooming might be, but there is not evidence of that. ---
**Author:** ![BigBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@BigBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/19 "2015-12-13T04:55:46Z")
> [@Foggy](#): > > That is your problem then, not hers. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269/20 "2015-12-13T05:07:48Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > [snip]… if the person I’m repulsed by has no concern for what I think? If you find me repulsive for what ever reason, why should I be concern about what you think? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-a-chin-beard-why/740269.md?page=2)