{"id":9523,"date":"2013-04-11T23:20:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T07:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=9523"},"modified":"2013-04-11T23:24:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T07:24:40","slug":"bearded-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/bearded-ladies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearded Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"Miriam's$ <\/a>
\nI was thrilled by a heads-up from my UK boyfriend David Duff<\/a>, directing me to the wonderful lady above. Her name is Mariam<\/a>, and according to her, the beard is the result of an experiment: She wanted to see what would happen if she stopped removing her persistent chin hair. Voila ! Now she works for a circus.<\/p>\n

I’d like to work for a circus, but I’m not going to grow a beard. \u00a0I’d like to have thicker eyebrows and more armpit hair, even if it didn’t involve a circus job. More realistically, women my age should be busy signing up their best friends to care for their chin hair should they end up incapacitated in a nursing home.<\/p>\n

Mariam probably knows that Alice B. Toklas<\/strong> was known for her luxuriant mustache.
\n $\"Alice$ <\/a>
\nI happen to love bearded ladies. I didn’t know they still existed, although I remember seeing a bearded lady in line at Toys R Us around thirty years ago. If only cell phones had been invented!<\/p>\n

It’s easy to accept a woman’s mustache when she is Frida Kahlo<\/strong>. Other women might want to think twice. Even my Special Sister<\/a> feels a personal bond with Frida, as she states so eloquently in her own blog: “I have always felt a strong connection to Frida Kahlo. She embraced her natural hairiness and even broke her pelvis…whadda coincidence! As much as a painter, I look to Frida as a style icon. “<\/em>
\n $\"Lori$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Alas, I see no resemblance.<\/p>\n

Many of the famous bearded Ladies who toured with circuses in the late 19th century look\u00a0suspiciously like men wearing dresses. And that’s okay with me, because I love a man in a dress.<\/p>\n

$\"Bearded$ <\/a> $\"Jane$ <\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Ladies, are you ready to grow a beard, or will they bury you with a tweezer\u00a0in your cold dead hands?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"