Ear Hair

Cecil C. Sackrider and Jimmy Swaggart will tell you one thing, I will tell you another: God is not perfect.
Among His many miracles, good and bad, such as my grandson and the election of Donald Trump (the latter an acute embarrassment to God), God makes mistakes, the most visible of which is hair.
Hair lacks logic. God seems to have got it wrong on so many levels. Either that, or He has displayed His impish sense of humour. How else could we explain why, follicle for follicle, He gives more hair to men yet is far quicker to strip them of it in terms of baldness? Why, too, is it that women, with far less god-given body hair, are more obsessed than men with ridding themselves of it? To be fair, the latter has less to do with God and more to do with the thinking of women, which all men, God included, will never understand.
But the one mystery that hovers over me more than any other is why God replaces the hair he takes from men with hair elsewhere. Men lose hair from the top of their heads only to find that it navigates (or is it gravitates?) to their noses and ears. Why is that? Why is it we can we lose it somewhere, only to grow it elsewhere? It defies logic.
Well, apparently we can put it down to hormones; those things that most men had an excess of in their teens but thought they had lost six months into their marriage.
The hormones, that cause the pattern of thinning and hair loss in the scalp, also cause the mass of Vellus hair that is naturally present in the nose and ears to grow darker, longer and grow coarser. It is believed that the increased growth of hair in the nose and ears among ageing men is tied to the same causes as male patterned baldness.
The different reactions within the different hair follicles relate to the way men develop secondary sexual characteristics (whatever they may be). So while the testosterone can cause the loss of scalp hair, it can lengthen and coarsen the hair on other parts of the body.
That is the pseudo-scientific explanation, but it only answers how it happens, not why.
Lacking a valid answer to the question of why, we are forced to fall back on the simple though unappetising explanation that it is God’s perversity and misogynosity to his fellow man, which He first demonstrated as far back as His creation of Eve. God has chosen to inflict on man (and not on woman) the loss of hair from the top of the head where it is most attractively and pragmatically placed and reposition it in the nasal and ear cavities where it is both unsightly and decidedly not pragmatically and accessibly placed.
Thanks a lot, God.