The thing that makes me laugh about this reaction to being allowed to grow a beard, and the mass taking up of the opportunity by J.W's, is that it is behind the curve again.
The motivation was to get the J.W's to look less weird and more like normal people, not some weird Cult.
But in the rest of the Western world, beards are far from ubiquitous, and it seems now far less fashionable than a couple of decades ago.
The J.W guys have made the Org. look more like an Amish type community !
The unforeseen consequences of every move by the Org. are really hilarious to watch !