tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post7866681380915718567..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: 'Standing up for Beards' by A L BerridgeMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-81744361076939407762013-11-21T02:38:29.725+00:002013-11-21T02:38:29.725+00:00Interesting post, A. L. Berridge, if that is your ...Interesting post, A. L. Berridge, if that is your real name... I cannot help but notice said name is an anagram of "eGirl Beard"<br /><br />My own beard dates to the mid-1980s. Not a "Crimea" beard, but one whose sudden absence should facilitate my escape if I am ever accused of "a crime."<br /><br />Anagrammatically Yours,<br />A Bearded ReaderMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06303401964874026149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-31360899896223848212013-11-20T14:15:48.127+00:002013-11-20T14:15:48.127+00:00Had never really thought about the psychology of t...Had never really thought about the psychology of the beard before! Fascinating post.<br />LizThe Greenockianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05241154433325603580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-4002070333727723622013-11-20T13:52:12.072+00:002013-11-20T13:52:12.072+00:00
Thank you for this wonderful essay! It made me la...<br />Thank you for this wonderful essay! It made me laugh, and gave me a whole new way of thinking about beards!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-71369464633078416662013-11-20T13:01:18.810+00:002013-11-20T13:01:18.810+00:00Excellent article - I find it hard to trust men wi...Excellent article - I find it hard to trust men without beards. Alyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08918354352250527202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-50718649835268594212013-11-20T12:03:32.156+00:002013-11-20T12:03:32.156+00:00Petrea - I know. *sigh*
Anne - thank you! My own ...Petrea - I know. *sigh*<br /><br />Anne - thank you! My own husband has grown a beard since I first met him, and I'm afraid it's just possible that this has affected my views on them. Well, that and Aragorn, of course...alberridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15986443240923520466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-16869131457616057312013-11-20T11:52:59.086+00:002013-11-20T11:52:59.086+00:00Kate - that's really interesting. I read somew...Kate - that's really interesting. I read somewhere (can't remember where, unfortunately) that the phrase 'open countenance' was based on just this gut feeling - that a face hidden by a beard was secretive and not to be trusted. <br />And d'oh! How could I have forgotten Blackadder? alberridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15986443240923520466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-36615134794584782202013-11-20T08:01:13.777+00:002013-11-20T08:01:13.777+00:00This was a great post! I had never thought about t...This was a great post! I had never thought about the absence of beards in cover art before.<br /><br />Having been startled by my lovely clean shaven husband arriving back from abroad with a beard, I am all for them. He looks great with or without one. Yesterday his beard gave him an Elizabethan Spanish nobleman look, and other days it can be more man of the forest! In honour of his, and all the beards you mention, I shall definitely try to remember to put a man with beard in my next book!Anne Boothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17160915179685300264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-34941104966658632632013-11-20T05:09:54.438+00:002013-11-20T05:09:54.438+00:00Ah. Aragorn. Like that.Ah. Aragorn. Like that.Petrea Burchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13043950465171821852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-88103934947681442142013-11-20T03:39:18.798+00:002013-11-20T03:39:18.798+00:00Fascinating post, thank you. Funnily enough a prot...Fascinating post, thank you. Funnily enough a protagonist has just 'lost' his beard in the edit because it felt wrong - like a sign that he was hiding something, a villain in disguise. It is interesting that beards have become synonymous with the villain/deception in the West. Living in the M East, they are very much part of the culture - even the male sixth formers at my DD's school sport fledgling beards. I guess, designer stubble aside, the 70s were the last era - probably due for a revival (and we already have Movember). The reference to Ancient Egypt's false beards reminded me of Nursie/Bernard in Blackadder, who wore Redbeard's as a gesture of remembrance ;)Kate Lord Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00278515379867576350noreply@blogger.com