The Perfect Gentleman Issue 9 - Christmas | Page 15

From all my cues and revelations I have
deducted that there are a number of reasons
as to why modern day politicians leave the
beards to the local alcoholics, fisherman,
homeless and wizards...and whether or not it’s
because they want to appear as asexual
creatures, do not want to alienate the older
generation by triggering their moustache
related PTSD or distance their female voters
or is it because they want to maintain the
youthful appearance of the Greek gods... they
all want to be young ...forever... just take Putin
and Berlusconi as an example... it does take a
brain surgeon, but a good plastic one to figure
out that together with the facial hair, all other
indications of old age must go under the
blade... the bottom line is, they all prefer to
keep their friends close and their razor closer.

For me personally, I hope this will change.
For someone who never had a beard or dated
anyone who had one, I always found it
pleasantly comforting and reassuring.
I hope that voters will learn to judge a
candidate by what they stand for rather than
debating whether or not he looks like
Chaplin or Hitler, I hope that the female
voter will finally put all their daddy issues to
good use and that the politicians themselves
stop trying to pretend to be Peter Pans’ and
be confident in their own masculinity.

Groomed Gentleman

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