Monday, October 25, 2010

People who look like people and some comments from the shallow end of the pool re: facial hair

So I've been doing research for a presentation next week and when I got to the 1min 20 seconds mark of this video, I saw a man who could be Adam Sandler, if Adam Sandler had travelled back in time to France to take part in an interview with the poet Czeslaw Milosz.

Some comments:
- 80s television sets were b.l.e.a.k.
- 80s special effects are funny.  An example is at 3 minutes 47 seconds.
- I like Milosz's face.  It's simultaneously open and closed.

And now, it's time to talk about eyebrows.  Considering this man's contribution to the world through his poetry, I am ashamed that I even notice these sort of things when I look at him.  Go ahead and judge me.  I judge myself.

In case you didn't watch the video, here's a picture of Milosz so you know where this is coming from. 


In the far-off, long-ago days of my youth, I used to worry about my eyebrows.  Certain members of my family sport (or sported) substantial amounts of eyebrow hair.  As a young girl, I could only assume my own eyebrows would develop along these lines as I aged and, I confess, I was horrified.  I remember the great relief I felt when I realized that I could wax and trim and pluck my eyebrows into submission.  As it turned out, I needn't have worried.  My eyebrows have remained faint to this day, so faint, in fact, that I darken them.  (Kirsten: Confessions)

I have had some male friends who've waxed their eyebrows.  So far, they've all been Arab and it's been done primarily to ensure there are two instead of one.  In general, I think men should feel freer than they do to take action about what's happening on the forehead.

Of course, it's possible that men don't care.  It's highly likely Milosz didn't.  When one has lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland, the systematic murder of millions of his countrymen, the Soviet occupation, exile, intellectual ostracization at the hands of the French, pro-Stalinist intelligentsia of the Paris in the 1950s and the concurrent isolation due to the suspicion of anti-Communist intelligentsia, and lack of recognition for decades until the someone finally decides he deserved the Nobel prize and he was catapulted into an unwelcome fame, perhaps eyebrows don't seem that important.

2 comments:

awomanoffewwords said...

AMEN!

afro-chick said...

i am so glad that i can tweeze my brows into compliance. i INHERITED similar brows from my grandfather.