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This is correct, but what is worse is a balding guy. When I meet a balding guy I see him as a follower and weak. When I meet a guy with a shaved head and you can tell he works out I take notice. When I meet a guy with a full head of hair styled to fit his head and body I think that lucky bastard.
I think all of us should have a 2 year plan. Mine was shave it off to see how that fit me. I looked like an x-con and don't get me started with my ears. Next step was meds for a year then a HT if that went well. I'm little over 1 year. Hope in a few Months things will be better. I was on the fence about a HT till Welker came out of the closest. Hats off to him.Comment
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Agreed. I feel for you guys that can't cope, but you need to get a shrink (especially hellouser.) I've never once heard someone talk shit about someone else being bald. of course people notice it, but it definitely has never made any of my friends lose respect. Three of my friends are completely bald, all are married and happy and among the most respected people I know. Sure, hair looks good, but bald guys often look great to women, I know lots of girls who have fallen in love with bald guys (including my ex, who married one). The whole point is that if you think society is out to get you because you're bald, then you have serious issues. society as a whole looks at baldness as something natural and common. If your experience is different then you should maybe move cities or change friends or just get therapy, because you sound like a crazy person.
vis a vis movie stars, yes that's maybe the ONE career where going bald might change your chances or stop you from success. but it can just as easily make you even more hire-able. bruce willis would be a pretty average looking joe with hair. look at that dude mark strong, he had garbage roles before he went bald and now he's doing great, and also popular with women. If anyone is helping villify bald people, it's people like hellouser who advertise this idea that bald men are crippled.
None of us likes going bald, but it sure as hell isnt going to make me less respected. and if you base your worth on how much women find you attractive then you're pretty pathetic. Especially cause as you get older, the only thing women really care about is whether you can take care of them and make them laugh. 90% of men lose their hair, and women know this. Women's breasts sag, their asses get fat, their faces get wrinkled, and their hair gets worse too. They know this also, and are looking for a man who is comfortable with the way that life changes us, and has the confidence to not give a damn if his hair falls out.
All that being said, it would obviously be really cool to have a way to not be bald if you don't want to be, which is why it's good to support the people that are working on that. let's keep this thread on point, and hellouser go get some professional psychiatric help dude, i'm worried about you and you need it.Comment
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Although I like reading everybody's opinions, but please try to stay on topic.
This thread is about DP cells, and how they are able to be cultured. So they say.Comment
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You're the one who's wrong and Hellouser's the one who's right.
I don't know if The American Hair Loss Council" is still in existence but there used to be an organization people could call about their hair loss called "the American Hair Loss Council. It was located in Texas. They were not a support group. All they did was give factual information to sufferers about their options and they talked to the press about hair loss news.
They were so many companies doing commercials and other tidbits on local and national T.V. and radio that slighted bald MEN that The American Hair Loss Council" created a form letter to scold these companies because they were having to send out these letter so often that they got tired of typing new letters every-time a company put out some ad or something that insulted bald people. It was common. That was about 10 years ago.
It's probably still going on but I don't see it anymore because I don't watch TV anymore. I'm on the internet or renting movies for my entertainment. I don't even have Dish or direct TV or any of those TV channels. I get my news and my entertainment by renting movies and surfing the internet.
Hellouser's right! There is widespread open public insulting of bald men in America. People feel comfortable insulting bald men and they feel comfortable insulting men who want their hair back or who get their hair back.
And the same blowhards who are insulting us now will be in this forums asking for information to get their own hair back if they look in the mirror tomorrow morning and notice they're losing their hair. They're hypocrites.Comment
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You're the one who's right.
People are actually comfortable with it to rub bald MEN's noses in it that they've lost their hair. Grown ups do it right out in public with no shame. They don't do it to me but that's because I keep to myself. And it's not just the blue-collar folks, or the lowlife's and loudmouths, or the dumb people who are doing the ridiculing of bald people - it's professional people as well. It cuts across socio-economic lines, races, religion, everything. People with hair are totally comfortable with ridiculing bald people and rubbing their noses in it that they're bald.
Keep in mind that baldness is a disfigurement. So what's going on is that the people not dealing with it are rubbing our noses in it that we're disfigurement and our lives are damaged because of that disfigurement.Comment
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It's still happening. Old Spice is running a campaign for their shampoos which implies that:
hair = success
no hair = failure
Here's the commercial:
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Lol well it wouldn't surprise me that the US is like this, it's a nation obsessed with appearances to the extreme. So what? Are you guys just gonna constantly complain!? Moaning and moaning about how this disease 'should have been cured', 'we should have this', 'this should have happened'......THE WORLD OWES YOU NOTHING! What about the hundreds of other life threatening diseases that haven't been cured yet??
What is a fact is that MPB will not be cured for YEARS! So get the hell off of this forum and stop constantly complaining...I'm not saying I'm above this, I still come here, but I used to be on here daily praying for some miracle. What I never did though was complain about society blah blah blah...we should have been cured by now blah blah blah...It ain't gonna happen, go and live your lives the best you can for gods sake. Demand respect, do it through how you act, how you treat others, your job, your career, YOUR ACTIONS!Comment
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Not a great analogy. They are a shampoo company so they have to market their product like that. And how does it imply baldness is failure? Just because the guy's hair goes across to the woman, they are not ridiculing bald guys. You are reading way too much in to things.
I work at an organisation where most of the staff are women and I've NEVER heard a disparaging remark about baldness or hair loss. In fact, some of my female colleagues state that there's nothing wrong with being bald and some go out with bald guys. (They are not doing this to make me feel better as my hair loss it pretty mild, fortunately)
Hair loss sucks but I think you need to get the idea that it will cripple you and stop you from being a success out of your head.Comment
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How can someone have more than 3000 posts on a hair loss forum in less than 2 years?Comment
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You ask "So what if America is obsessed with appearances?" Hey guess what fella America is where we live. We are dealing with the culture of where we live. And if your country was so much better you wouldn't be coming here for years sniffing for hair loss cures yourself.
You ask, "What about the hundreds of other life threatening diseases that haven't been cured?" Guess what, the people with those other conditions are complaining too. All people who have medical problems are complaining about them. I know because I work at a hospital. And the fact that you come to this site sniffing for cures is tantamount to complaining about your hair loss dude. Coming here, especially for years as you yourself admit you have been doing, is the same as voicing your objections and discomfort about being bald. What do you think dude - do you think you've been coming here for years sniffing for cures because you're happily adjusted to baldness? What a joke!!!
You come here because you don't like hair loss. Hair loss makes you feel small. And you make yourself feel better by insulting other bald people. You build up your ego by badmouthing other bald people the same as the people with hair build up their egos by badmouthing bald people. And while you badmouth bald people for not wanting to be bald you yourself come here sniffing for baldness cures because you yourself don't want to be bald anymore than the other people who you are insulting for not wanting to be bald.
In fact, I was just at a different site where some loudmouth (who has a full head of hair) was running his mouth about how if he was balding he would just "man-up", shave it off, and that would be the end of it. You're insults to Hellouser sound the exact same as that loudmouth's insults to all bald people, and if that guy with the full head of hair knew you were coming here for years sniffing for hair loss cures he would be insulting you the same as you insult bald people who voice their objections to hair loss. You think you're being cool about balding like the people with hair are being cool about balding (of course it's easy for them to be cool about balding since they aren't balding) but you aren't because if you were being cool about hair loss you would stop sniffing for hair loss cures.
There is pressure on men not to voice their concerns about hair loss. You are succumbing to that pressure. You want to sound cool in the eyes of that loudmouth man (with a full head of hair) at the other site and that is why you put on this phony air that you are like him. You aren't standing up to the pressure that loudmouth puts bald people under because you aren't strong. It takes strength to stand up to that loudmouth and tell him that he's wrong.
But you don't understand that.Comment
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