Oh unfair nature --- A short observation on difference

[The Lone Liberal]

Staring into the morning mirror at my unshaven face and my riotously disheveled hair it occurred to me that nature had visited all the beauty and grace upon the female of the species. While the male is resigned to a certain regimen of morning maintenance if they don’t want to go through the day giving the appearance that they live under a boxcar it is not so with the female. Women only need to languidly stretch to shake off the depredation of the night and thereby undergoing a metamorphous that greets the morning with beauty and grace.

If it would do any good I would protest.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Never been married, eh, Lone Ranger?

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. My dear LL

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

[The Lone Liberal]

5. My beauty would require the judgement of the vision impaired.

Bandaloop.

[Az]

3. Who taught you that you look terrible

Why do you not consider your natural appearance to be a thing of beauty? Remember women have been killing themselves for years trying to stuff their bodies into that space occupied by a Barbie doll. Men too have been affected by social dictates of what they should look like.

[The Lone Liberal]

4. I follow no ones dictates.

However, I desire not to frighten dogs and small children.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Ah, but you never have to put on makeup.

The mascara is really interesting when you are half blind as I am, and have to look up very close to the mirror and then battle eyelids that seem to blink of their own volition.

And Jitterbug Perfume is right, adding beauty is only skin deep.

[The Lone Liberal]

7. My epidermis must be very thin indeed. LOL

[rock]

8. Hey, come on now

You wouldn't want the women to be the ugly looking ones, would you?

[The Lone Liberal]

9. Lord no! I'm not complianing on that issue,

I just wished all I had to do was to pinch my cheeks to start the day. LOL

[dofus]

10. Boy, do I wish I only needed

to roll over, stretch languidly, and pinch my cheeks to start the day. First a cup of coffee, to wake up. Then I check my email, spend a few minutes on DU, all of which is optional, but I'm drinking my coffee and becoming more human during this half hour. Then a shower, dry off, lotion my dry skin, don't forget moisturizer for my face, blow dry my hair, put on makeup. Trust me, you would not want to see me before all that has happened, and I'm still not likely to win the Ms DU contest any time soon.

[philosophie_en_rose]

11. it takes some work to be "graceful and beautiful."

You have to shave your face. I have to shave my legs.
You have a few inches of hair. I have a few feet.

And so on. However, you too can be graceful, etc. Everything we can do, you can do also. I'll send you some makeup, if you'd like.

[The Lone Liberal]

12. The only know makeup for the male

Comes bottled and is usually limited to those over the age of majority. LOL

[Susang]

13. You wouldn't be saying this if you saw me in the morning!

My breath alone can kill at 20 feet.

[Deja Q]

14. I love men with 5 o'clock shadows and messy hair!

Women have a certain beauty, but it's the man that's got what I want!

[ForrestGump]

15. We'd be a good match then, if I were gay

My hair is extremely undisciplined. And I don't even care.

And I hate shaving!


I do so love women, though, even first thing in the morning. Glimpsing a 'morning face' is a necessary reminder that they, too, are human...supernatural beings though they may seem in comparison to manly standards of ineptitude and oafishness.