A Personal Barber Gender Observation Concerning Eyebrows

Now this is true in my experience, not a generalization. I have been keeping score.

When I go to get my hair cut and beard trimmed I go to real barbers, you know, with the traditional poles out front and the outdated magazines in the waiting area.

I don't have a regular place to go. Around here barbers have strange hours, so I just drop in when and wherever I get a chance.

Over the last few years I visited a wide variety of barbers of both genders, I'd say evenly split 50/50, in several different cities in Thurston and Grays Harbor counties.

At this point in my life I am at the age where hair on my head grows wildly in places like out of my ears, nose, eyebrows, everywhere except the top of my head, which is thinning rapidly! Like my grandfather used to say, my hair is wavy, it is waving goodbye!

So here is what I have observed when it comes to eyebrows.

Male barbers always ask if you want your eyebrows trimmed. Female barbers never ask, they just do it before you know what is happening. So far, in my experience, this has been 100% true.


It is time for me to revisit James Thurber.

Bezango: On Being Hairy in Olympia

Olympia Power & Light, sometime in late 2010.

To sidetrack here. That 1963 Studebaker Lark was less than a decade old when this Polaroid was snapped. Back then the speed on SR 8 was 70, which meant everyone bombed along at 80. The Lark had a V8 engine in a little body so that baby flew. Also, I loved the fact the ignition was on the left side for us southpaws!

Phone photo 461

Elma, Washington

Morning Hair

A whopping 16 copies were printed in Feb. 1998 (4 orange, 12 yellow).

Five red copies on cardstock in June 2005 made up the entire 1st Danger Room Reprint Ed.

I wish I could give some inside gossip on the background of this thing, but honestly I don't really remember drawing and publishing it! Maybe I was just waking up when I produced the whole book. February is a pretty dark month around here where we tend to hibernate.