LINK: I've never understood male facial hair, myself, or at least not since the point I stopped regularly having it (over five years ago). I sort of get the female viewpoint (as noted in the comments) that not shaving is just incredibly lazy; this is why, generally speaking, I shave for pretty much any occasion when I'm going to see people I know, with the exception of when I'm with my family on vacation, and don't feel like bothering. I mean, clearly other people don't have this same opinion (and I would guess that the distribution of men-who-have-beards and women-who-like-beards is non-random, both highly skewed towards more intellectual professions), so it's just a gripe that some people have, but it was interesting to me to see it brought up.
By the by, this reminds me of the conference I attended where I took a brief survey of whether or not to grow a beard by looking at the men in the room and taking a count of how many fell into each category. The conclusion? A beard will get you an entirely respectable amount of success and esteem, but no beard will get you a higher citation count.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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