Is Bald Really THAT Bad?

Underock1

Underock1

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Yes. I am bald. Not completely, but a really thin comb over and very high forehead. This isn't about me, however.
I am long past worrying about my appearance.

I just can't help looking at all of the awful rugs that I see worn by major figures on TV all of the time, and wondering.
Are they really preferable to just going with the reality? Is it better to be ugly or ridiculous? :tv:
 

My wife's brother in law is said to be completely bald. No one in the family recalls ever seeing him without his "toop", as they call it, unbeknownst to HIM! It's ratty-looking, the guy is older than I, not a single gray hair in that matted-looking mess! Occasionally, he produces a small comb, and proceeds to carefully stroke the sides, intending to fool, perhaps. Now and then his wife carefully runs her fingers through it. My wife shudders to see this happen.

We ask ourselves, does it ever come off? Glued on? Sleeping? The strongest winds failed to cause any concern, when we were all out and about. Know anyone quite that vain? imp
 

Even as he's gotten older I always found musician Jan Hammer MEOWRRRRRR
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...but what do you think about these people in the public eye? Is bald viewed by the public as such a negative thing that it could ruin their careers? Somewhere, PR people must be selling them on the idea that you must wear this silly thing or die.
 
Shalimar said:
I think Underock, it is an ageist thing, as in bald equals old. Silly. I think in time this will pass.
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Oh, I agree. Its all about old is not good, but do they really think they are fooling anyone? We see bald people all the time and think nothing of it. When you see a silly looking rug, it just draws your attention to it.
 
Yes I agree, Elton John did the whole transplant thing and to what point? Really it's okay, thinning hair is not a big deal. Worse is "The Donald", he has a freakin' dead possum up there right?
 
Bald is not bad or ugly, IMO. I don't care for men, young or old, who completely shave their heads...but male pattern baldness has been around forever, it's very natural for some, especially with thin hair, regardless of age. I knew a guy years ago, in his 30s, who was losing most of his hair. His parents helped pay for some transplants which didn't work out, he looked like he had a doll's head, always wore a hat. I don't like comb-overs, just my preference...seen too many unkempt or in the wind. My husband has lost some of his hair, just like his father, he keeps what he has short and I think it's the best way to go. I don't like men who wear wigs, or dye their hair.
 
Male pattern baldness ... the heart-break of MPB! Especially when it friggin' starts when you're 16 or so, and all your friends have massive forests on their head that the girls love to run their hands through, and you're the only one in the group that they need to take an extra 5 minutes with to start feeling your follicles!

Yup, I always had to make excuses or wear hats - even to this day. When I was 17 I thought I had come up with a solution - get a perm! I went down to NY's Greenwich Village where ALL the best hairdressers hung out, paid the then-unheard of price of $75 and after 3 hours of pain and humiliation and the wafting odor of burning hair came out of the shop looking like Albert Einstein and Harpo Marx had had a love-child.

I came home that evening and when my dog Heidi saw me she squealed and ran behind the sofa. :(

It took months for the ribbing at school to stop, even from my girlfriend, which hurt the most.

Then I went for the comb-over. I tried fooling myself with that for decades. Comical, really, how I always had to turn into the wind to avoid that horrible flop-over. My friends called me "The Weather-vane". :hopelessness:

Finally after my divorce 15 years ago I took a trimmer right down the center-line, got rid of the comb-over and now have two bushy growths on the sides that I still refuse to "part" with. Now I kid myself that my beard and ponytail draw attention away from the glaring top but still favor "do-rags", bandannas, hats and small plastic garbage pails. :rolleyes:
 
I used to see an elderly man at the hospital I worked at who was a volunteer. His hair looked strange so finally I got near enough to him to see what was going on. It appeared that he had grown out the hair on the back of his head very, very long and then wrapped it all the way around his head in a big swirl. It was dyed a very flat black with a sort of reddish tint to it. As uncharitable as it may sound, it looked like a diseased mink had crawled up on his head, curled up, and died. It definitely wasn't a rug, because I could see where it was growing.

It was the only head of hair I've seen that is worse than The Donald's.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Bald is not bad or ugly, IMO. I don't care for men, young or old, who completely shave their heads...but male pattern baldness has been around forever, it's very natural for some, especially with thin hair, regardless of age. I knew a guy years ago, in his 30s, who was losing most of his hair. His parents helped pay for some transplants which didn't work out, he looked like he had a doll's head, always wore a hat. I don't like comb-overs, just my preference...seen too many unkempt or in the wind. My husband has lost some of his hair, just like his father, he keeps what he has short and I think it's the best way to go. I don't like men who wear wigs, or dye their hair.
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I agree with SeaBreeze. Personality is what makes a man, not the hair on his head.
 
My hubby has male pattern baldness and about 12 years ago I convinced him to let me shave his head. We have never looked back. I think bald men are way sexy. He has saved a bundle of $$ on haircuts over the years. He usually cuts it himself but I do it occasionally...
 
My comb over was never deliberately designed as such. I just never changed the way I combed my hair. There are still a number of feeble survivors up on top. Although I still do my own shopping, etc., I am basically house bound now and see very few people these days. Not worth changing now. I keep it pretty short, but, yes, there is a flag that blows in the breeze up front.
If it makes people laugh, that's great! I still serve a purpose here. :eek:mg1:
 
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