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[–] 70 points 6 months ago (8 children)

You know, I just realized how dumb it is that I grew up on TNG and yet have never written a bald dude into my sci-fi.

I need to stop sucking and do that.

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    [–] 49 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It’s so much easier being bald than it is being balding.

    I got lucky, though, and look way better bald than I ever did with hair, even before I started balding. Should have been buzzing it my whole life.

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Started losing mine in college with a big widow's peak. I tried to avoid it by going Mohawk for a year or two before it connected leaving me with essentially a crazy clown tuft. But the bullet around 25 and haven't looked back. It's nice in hot weather though.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago (1 child)
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    Wouldn't the actual body positive thing be to just be cool with thinning hair?

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    Thinning hair is fine and mocking someone for it is mean and unhelpful, and body positivity is being cool if someone decides to stick with it. However it's not contradictory to say "given your situation you would look better bald tho".

    A white lie is good when it's about something one can't (easily) change or when criticism is uncalled for. This is the opposite situation where the criticism is called for and the straightforward advice to go for it is cheap&easy to implement.

    In fact if someone is actively seeking advice, I would argue that unconditionally saying "you look great don't change anything" is a form of toxic positivity.

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    [–] 23 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    What I wonder is how that subreddit would respond if someone with good hair, or even just decent hair posted. Do they ever respond "no bro, you have good hair!" I would bet that it becomes a "when you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" type situation.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Surely it's happened. A lot of dudes with perfectly good hair are anxious about balding.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Hello it's me, I'm paranoid and anxious

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Not sure if this is a joke or not, but I recently learned that the same hormones that affect beard growth also contribute to baldness!

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    [–] 21 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Is that One-punch-man and Foot-sole-face-man?

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    I can't wait for the cure for baldness and seeing the "bald" culture fight back against it.

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  • [+] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)
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    I think that is more like a surgical procedure to move your existing hair around than a genuine cure, but you do have a point.

    If it becomes dirt cheap to get the surgery done would "baldness" culture start fighting back? Hairless positivity, you don't need a scalpel to change who you are, Rogaine is no gain, toupee no way, chants for no transplants, 10's dig bald men, etc.

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    [–] 15 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    I just started losing a spot on the crown of my head this year!

    Wife says it's still not my time, but she'll let me know when the razor must fall XD

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    [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Your username and pfp remind me about how Jean-Luc Picard is the number one reason I don't worry about balding.

    "What if you go bald-" "Oh, like that one Starfleet captain I really like?"

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    [+] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)
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    [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    My Dad likes to say that God made 2 kinds of heads:

    Those he loved and those he covered up.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    theory; balding evolved because hair is a liability in a fight.

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    The baldies will always be superior to the shavies. They know who they are and do not need to "craft" themselves by looking like Mister Clean. Hunter S. Thompson knew.

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