"Hair has always been a sign of masculinity…[the phrase] “puts hair on your chest,” men have beards; if a woman has a beard then she’s breaking a gender defining line. A beard is a really specific gender defining line and so it’s treading on male territory which is treading on male power…historically hair has been a symbol of power, that’s why the men don’t want the women having too much of it in too many places — you get it!"

Jennifer Miller (Juggling Gender, 1992) (via pansexualpride) (via bear-bones) (via fight-war-not-wars)

Don’t be dissin’ beards now.