Thoreau also wore a neck-beard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive.[20] However, Louisa May Alcott mentioned to Ralph Waldo Emerson that Thoreau's facial hair "will most assuredly deflect amorous advances and preserve the man's virtue in perpetuity."[20]
Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau's endorsement of living alone and apart from modern society in natural simplicity to be a mark of "unmanly" effeminacy and "womanish solitude", while deeming him a self-indulgent "skulker."[79]
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The neck-beard is so distracting that I'm only now looking at his haircut. What the fuck is that? Did many women find that attractive too?
I do find it all attractive, but only because he could be my partner in proper feather-strutting.
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