[crotobloste]

This is an interesting take. When I taught low-income Muslim students from North Africa I was told that having a beard (which I already had) would help to establish myself as a figure of authority, as they would associate it with their conception of what a "scholarly figure" looks like. Similarly, women in both Academia and the corporate world have told me that they had chosen not to dye their graying hair in order to consolidate their image as a "serious, professional woman".