“A man without a mustache is no longer a man” August 26, 2008
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When I was little (late 80s/early 90s), I thought that a man had to have a mustache in order to be handsome. My dad had one through the mid-90s, when it became less sex symbol and more gay cop.
Having sported said hirsute appurtenance for lo these many decades, one finds the current cultural disdain for same quite disquieting. One has heard the “gay cop” reference; one has heard the advice to keep ones progeny away from the mustachioed minority lest some ill befall them. One has felt, how shall one say it, anachronistic. One cannot fathom, however, the provenance of the current anti-mustache climate.
One has, at times, betrayed one’s better judgment and removed said adornment. One has become aware at such moments, and with shocking clarity, that one has no discernible labile structures. One finds one appears even more geek-like than usual at such times. One’s own image becomes strange and abhorrent at such times–an odd and striking circumstance.
One has, then, become convinced that one has few good choices in this dilemma. One can follow fickle fashion and appear inanely geek-like and lipless, or one can fly in the face of fashion, and at least retain some modicum of one’s former panache. One believes one’s choices become clear at such junctures.
And fashion being as it is, one waits patiently for the tides to turn and the mustache to return to favor. One is old enough to have ridden out such cycles before, and age does, after all, still convey some perquisites.