First: I want to question whether you really shave your face every day because your girlfriend likes it. When you didn't have a girlfriend, did you also shave? If your girlfriend decided she preferred you with a beard, would you just grow a beard? The truth is I barely ever see men with beards, or really much facial hair at all. It's just not fashionable now. At times it's been fashionable. Are you really sure that your (and your girlfriend's) personal preferences are completely unaffected by fashion?
Before I met my girlfriend, I shaved about once a week, as opposed to every day. I think having a full mustache (I'm Asian, so I don't actually grow any hair on my cheeks) would be annoying. But if my girlfriend liked mustaches, then yeah, I would grow one.
I'm pretty neutral on fashion. If I'm not out with my girlfriend or attending Mass, then I wear whatever appears first in the closet. My girlfriend is even more apathetic towards fashion than I am. Before we got together, she wore fairly baggy clothes and no makeup. After we got together, she went out to buy more fashionable clothing just to please me (even though I'm not the type to really care what she wears). I encourage her to continue not wearing makeup, for various reasons.
Back to the names:
I'm not really sure what's so wrong with the patriarchial system. If last names were all matriarchially based, it wouldn't bother me at all. I don't think my girlfriend would be helping me out on that either, LOL. Even though she was raised in what I would call a "wealthy liberal elite" household, she's a very conservative, traditionally-minded Catholic convert, and an anti-feminist. Her parents are trying to force her into Harvard to be a doctor, but she'd rather be a housewife, have lots of kids, and write books.
Before I met my girlfriend, I shaved about once a week, as opposed to every day. I think having a full mustache (I'm Asian, so I don't actually grow any hair on my cheeks) would be annoying. But if my girlfriend liked mustaches, then yeah, I would grow one.
I'm pretty neutral on fashion. If I'm not out with my girlfriend or attending Mass, then I wear whatever appears first in the closet. My girlfriend is even more apathetic towards fashion than I am. Before we got together, she wore fairly baggy clothes and no makeup. After we got together, she went out to buy more fashionable clothing just to please me (even though I'm not the type to really care what she wears). I encourage her to continue not wearing makeup, for various reasons.
Back to the names:
I'm not really sure what's so wrong with the patriarchial system. If last names were all matriarchially based, it wouldn't bother me at all. I don't think my girlfriend would be helping me out on that either, LOL. Even though she was raised in what I would call a "wealthy liberal elite" household, she's a very conservative, traditionally-minded Catholic convert, and an anti-feminist. Her parents are trying to force her into Harvard to be a doctor, but she'd rather be a housewife, have lots of kids, and write books.
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