I don't think straight razor shaving is bad ass at all - that implies some sort of toughness - all of our grandfathers and those before them used straights, so we're only doing what even the weakest coward used to do. I think the hockey term "pansification" applies to all of us now - we've grown soft, and somehow think that doing anything without a safety guard is "bad ass."

Just my $0.02.

Mark