OK, "we" don't, but perhaps I do.
Women spend money plucking and trimming them for having too much hair above the eye is considered unsightly.
Words like unibrow and monobrow have crept their way into our lingo. Even Merriam Webster recognizes unibrow as an official word.
We even have websites mocking those with the genetic code unfortunate enough to produce too much hair where it is not wanted.
However, copious amounts of hair on the brow is not such a stigma in all cultures.
Famous female Mexican painter Frida Kahlo accentuated what must have been her favorite feature in her self portraits.
To the Chinese, having long eyebrows is a sign of age and wisdom, not to mention fighting prowess.
And, whenever we think of the burly Russian man, we picture a big hairy guy with massive eyebrows.
There is the former Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev...
..to the Cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov who made the "Famous people with Unibrows list" on Wikipedia.
...and finally the reclusive Russian mathematician who recently won an award for some solving a supposedly unsolvable math problem, Grigory Perelman.
On the bright side, he could be a stand-in for Vorvon the Space Vampire...
2 comments:
Is Vorvon from Buck Rogers? Ah, the memories of my childhood nightmares!
"Eyebrows in the wind, all we are is eyebrows in the wind"...
Yes it is! I was wondering if you'd remember.
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