My Dad likes to say that God made 2 kinds of heads:
Those he loved and those he covered up.
Honestly, good for him. Hope he enjoyed the sun.
where did you get a picture of me
theory; balding evolved because hair is a liability in a fight.
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.
I’m right there with you. I had long hair for so long, cut it for a job and realized I was going bald. Ended up shaving it while depressed and immediately felt better after seeing the result. Kept it shaved since and no longer worry about it.
That’s my story exactly. Also, that last bit, that’s an under discussed element of it, you don’t worry about your hair anymore, at all. Ever. It’s literally not a thing anymore. I never realized how much I thought and stressed about my hair until I didn’t at all think or stress about it.
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.
Make it so.
You could also make it Sisko.
Never beat yourself up for not realizing something sooner. The conditions that were required for understanding happened at the exact time they were supposed to.
Or, in lieu of that, at their earliest possible convenience.
It’s that Picard-being-bald thing: it’s not that they won’t have a cure for baldness in the 25th century, it’s that humanity will be long extinct by then.
That’s not where I thought this was going to go :(
I think it’s good though because in a way it means that to you see those guys are just as regular people.
bill is a role model both for hair and for humanity.
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
Counterpoint:
I’d let my hairline go as far as it wants, I’m talking about the monk patch XD
Also, what movie is that from?
Die Hard
e: the Christmas classic. We watch it every year.
Best Christmas movie ever made.
I’ve been meaning to watch that! Somehow I’ve never gotten around to it
My dad used to ask me to scratch his bald spot when I was like gradeschool age. 25+ years later, he’s still just that small spot in the back. My mom cuts his hair now, keeps it fairly short but I don’t think it’s even that noticeable now that it’s all gray
For me it was when wind started becoming my enemy lol
I wish more guys were bold enough to go bald when it’s clearly time (pun intended). I personally prefer it on them at least, it looks quite neat.
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.
You should’ve just gone full clown. Paint that tuft green and go full crusty
I was thinking killer klowns from outer space like the guy on the right.
I know that carpet!
Por favor
Please elaborate.
It’s the famously-hideous Marriott carpet from the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta. It grew in popularity amongst attendees of Dragon Con, to the point that carpet camo cosplays emerged:
The carpet was replaced in 2016, but the pattern remains embedded in the Dragon Con memetic memory, and the Cult of the Carpet lives on.
That is really cool to learn. Thanks for informing me homie!
Bruh, you’d be swimming in poon.
Insane clown pussy
Sorry for coming back days later, but this shit deserves recognition!
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?”
Yeah “You mean like my idol??”
when mine started visibly going by 23, i thought that at least it outlasted sir patrick’s by a year.
I can’t wait for the cure for baldness and seeing the “bald” culture fight back against it.
Isn’t the cure just to go to Turkey?
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.
Lasik surgery exists and isn’t all that expensive, but you still see plenty of people with glasses.
That’s an imperfect fix iirc. It has risks and side effects and it’s one of those things where you can only do it once or something.
Oh yes, I am definitely being silly
Could also say “no hair, don’t care” 👴
I need hair, not feathers.
🦃
Like all the “body positivity” people that were celebrating that fat people could still be fit and beautiful, and then the minute Ozempic hits the world, they all dropped half their body weight. Not so militant about being fat any more, eh?
I’ve always been conflicted about the body positivity movement. There is a lot if truth that people on the thicker side can actually be a healthy weight, but at the same time, telling obese people that they are fine as they are is like trying to normalize smoking.
What I do think is important is that someone’s self-worth should never be tied to their weight. You’re not a worse person than anyone else just because you’re overweight, and no one should be treated badly because if it.
Overall, I think it’s a mixed bag, but with more positives than negatives overall
Wouldn’t the actual body positive thing be to just be cool with thinning hair?
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.
It’s complicated.
Society generally treats you better when buzzed compared to overly thinning, especially when dating. Ultimately it’s a personal choice, but most guys are happy with the results and wish they did it sooner.
You can always do a comb-over if you really wanna go for style.
Part of why it’s important for people is their feeling of agency in their appearance.
The body positivity comes from the acceptance and welcome for what is seen as a very difficult hurdle for men to grasp and accept. R/Bald does that without ridicule or judgement.
Am bald btw.
For whatever reason it doesn’t load for me without erasing everything after the .png: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/onepunchman/images/f/ff/Saitama_Manga_Profile.png
Being bald is kinda badass. Balding is some middle aged dad shit.
Depends on the shape of your head though. I got a close shave when I was a kid but my head was shaped weird. Friends didn’t let me forget it either.
There are the Marc Andreessen’s among us
*Typing*
“Hehe! Oof”
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.
Surely it’s happened. A lot of dudes with perfectly good hair are anxious about balding.
Hello it’s me, I’m paranoid and anxious
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!
Having recently started estrogen, I can confirm that my beard growth has slowed dramatically and my once receding hairline is gradually filling itself back in.
I bet someone with good hair has asked, but I wonder what they replied.
Ive seen this. They respond truthfully.
As in, “your hair is fine, don’t do it”?
Yes.
While I’m sure despite the wholesome community image, some people reacting with envy is understandable. But that’s on them not you. Everyone is in charge of their own feelings. Regulating them and reconciling them with your free will and actions you take… That’s life!
🥸
It’s not necessarily envy. It just could be that they get caught up in the idea that everyone looks better bald.
Fair point!
