{"id":1343,"date":"2009-12-02T16:49:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T23:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:00","slug":"harvard-grooming-raises-eyebrows-wednesday-december-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/harvard-grooming-raises-eyebrows-wednesday-december-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Grooming Raises Eyebrows &#8211; Wednesday December 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bert-771629-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bert-771629\" title=\"bert-771629\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bert-771629-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bert-771629-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bert-771629.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I was watching a show on the science channel last night that featured a group of Harvard Physicists.  Every single one of them had wild eyebrows.  Or eyebrow rather.  One wild eyebrow. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nObviously these are insanely smart people who aren&#8217;t caught up in their looks&#8230;but don&#8217;t you like it&#8217;s sort of deviant to be on a TV show and not even bother to tweeze out a couple of those mid-brow hairs? <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nDoes asking this question make me terribly shallow?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSigned,<br \/>\nMaybe I&#8217;m Jealous Because They&#8217;re So Smart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\nDear Jealous,<br \/>\nThe exact answer to this question is unknown because it depends ones mood.  In fact, that&#8217;s why it took me so long to provide an answer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen I was in a good mood, I wanted to answer like this:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nHumans are beautiful in their natural form, and it&#8217;s unfortunate that we&#8217;re subjected to styles that oppress are essential hairy-backed, pimpled, pasty, smelly selves.  Most of us (myself included) spend so much time trying to fit into an aesthetic standard that we wouldn&#8217;t have time left over to discover the other dimensions of the universe.  I almost had to drop out of college because of a rough bout with acne.  Therefore, we should be delighted that some people can eschew the chains of fashion and decode the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nBut, when I was in a bad mood, I wanted to answer like this:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nYes, it is socially deviant not to pluck a few hairs out of the middle of your face.  I would even go so far as to say that these people are doing it either for attention or to annoy you and I specifically.  All the physics mysteries in the world revealed aren&#8217;t going to make me stop staring at the tuft of hair taunting me from the safety of a Harvard scientist&#8217;s face. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSo I guess the answer is a little bit of both.  But the good mood answer makes me feel more enlightened and accepting, so I think I&#8217;ll stick with that one.   <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nAs Tennessee Williams wrote in &#8220;The Night of the Iguana&#8221;: <em>Nothing human disgusts me unless it&#8217;s unkind, violent.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nPoor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, &nbsp; I was watching a show on the science channel last night that featured a group of Harvard Physicists. Every single one of them had wild eyebrows. Or eyebrow rather. One wild eyebrow. &nbsp; Obviously these are insanely smart people who aren&#8217;t caught up in their looks&#8230;but don&#8217;t you like it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/harvard-grooming-raises-eyebrows-wednesday-december-2nd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harvard Grooming Raises Eyebrows &#8211; Wednesday December 2nd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}