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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
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[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 19 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The results indicated that the women found men with light stubble most attractive; these men were preferred as both short- and long-term partners. However, the women perceived male faces with full beards as the most masculine, aggressive, and socially mature; the women also thought these men looked older. Men's faces with light beards were considered the most dominant.

Research by Dixson and Brooks (2013) used similar procedures and recorded judgments by both men and women on the faces of men with varying degrees of facial hair. As in the first study, women found stubble on men most attractive, (In this study, the stubble was heavier.) Nevertheless, women rated men with full beards as the highest for perceived parenting ability and healthiness. Overall, as facial hair increased, women's ratings of masculinity increased, too—particularly for women who reported being at the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle. Men had similar judgments of facial hair, except that they found full beards as appealing as heavy stubble. Men also noted a greater perception of masculinity as facial hair increased.

Overall, these ratings suggest that an intermediate level of facial stubble is more attractive for a sex partner, while a fuller beard is perceived as indicative of someone with good fathering ability and more investment in offspring.

Heyyyy turns out when you ask 100 women what they think of facial hair on men, they overwhelmingly prefer it.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-attraction-doctor/201607/do-women-prefer-men-with-beards

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

ZZ Top wasted a lot of money on dressing sharp when it was the beards all along.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 15 minutes ago

But not a lot on sunglasses.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Interesting, and I'm frankly surprised by it.

Still, there are women who don't prefer it, which makes the point.

Men and women have preferences, we can choose to accommodate that as we (as individuals) wish.

No one holds a gun to anyone's head and says "shave or else".

Fuck, what man is going to know it a woman shaves her legs unless he's intimate with her anyway?

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 1 points 12 minutes ago

You’ve never seen a woman’s bare legs in public before?

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 hour ago

Fuck, what man is going to know it a woman shaves her legs unless he’s intimate with her anyway?

Do you live in Saudi Arabia or are you legally blind? Shorts exist.