Yep, I don't understand it either. When I was working a retail job some years back, I decided to grow out my beard to give my skin a break from shaving. Immediately, I started getting the "I don't like the beard" comments from all the women on the job. What's worse, I found out that I was being stalked by a woman coustomer who apparently did not like me in a beard. One day I was talking to a customer when this woman stalker came up to me and said "I've been watching you for quite a while and I used to like you -- but now I don't like you anymore because you grew a beard." The stalker then walked off. Both the customer and I were stunned at what just happened -- but he did give me some advice which I took -- "I would keep the beard if I was you."