[Magdalen] The Theology of Clerical Beards

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 1/22/16 10:57 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Some Native Americans have really skimpy beards, Sibyl....particularly
> those in the Pacific Northwest!

My husband had just enough NA genes (in the right place on one or both 
chromosomes) that the most he could do was mustache and skimpy goatee. 
He was a "Lavender Cowboy", with only two hairs on his chest (I gather 
from the looks of the covers of current Romance paperbacks that that is 
the most modern trope for "sexy" along with "sculpted" muscles (pretty 
much necessarily from a gym with machines, but a lot of these guys, from 
the text, are supposed to be "natural" men like Tarzan), and sparse 
hairs on his legs.  Contrariwise, I knew a "legal" NA, a "Card-Carrying 
Quapaw" who got those particular genes from the European part of his 
ancestors, (and this was at the hippie time when a lot of young men grew 
as much hair as they possibly could), who, in a swimsuit, looked like a 
walking black haystack with a pair of round lenses near the top.


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Sibyl Smirl
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