I told men to shave their beards and these are the harassing emails I got

(Warning: This post contains explicit language.)

A while back, I wrote about beards. Specifically, I declared the trend of increasingly gruff beards was over.

For some reason, this article enjoyed some increased popularity in the last couple of days, thanks to a couple of Facebook posts

As a result, I got some... fan mail.

Here's the first message I received this morning:

And another, later in the afternoon:

I finally figured out that these emails seem to be linked to this somewhat offensive Facebook post:

Just remember, guys, years ago there were probably legions of men who would have defended muttonchops. History has definitively proven them wrong.

If you have any more trends you think I should report on, please get in touch at sferro@businessinsider.com.

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