If there wasn't a stigma about wearing hairpieces hairloss forums wouldn't exist

[BaldBearded]

If there was not a "baldness" industry, forums like this would NOT exist!

Plugs, drugs and rugs make BILLIONS for people who are not YOU!

They exist to make YOU feel like SHIT about yourself because you don't have the requisite number of follicles. Now hand over all of you $$$.

Like if you would only eat the right cereal, yoghurt, and use the right shampoo, your life would be perfect. In the USA, add drive the right car.

[BaldBearded]

Maybe I'm biased then, but almost everytime I brought up balding as it being a problem for me, I got told to just accept it because a lot of men go bald and it's perfectly normal for men to go bald.

I partly agree with the fact that guys who care about their appearance are being seen as effeminate and insecure, though times are changing. I don't know how old you are, but there are probably some (or at least 1) generation(s) between us and I can tell you it's not effeminate nor insecure anymore for younger guys to care about their appearance nowadays. I guess it also depends a bit on where you live.

I am sorry you are being treated that way, if it's bothers YOU, it is a problem for you. People need to be more sensitive some times. I could not talk to anyone about it. When I started to lose my hair at 16, my father (now an N2/3 at 78) ridiculed me. I am now 53 and an N6/7. At 27, I could no longer hide it, so I shaved it.

You are correct about where you live, here, in Israel where the factors of bad genetics, massive amounts of stress and smoking, cause MANY Israeli men to go bald, and young. It is NOT unusual to see soldiers in uniform on the bus, with either TE, or MPB.

Drugs, rugs and plugs are VERY expensive here, and no one (except lawyers and politicians) can afford "treatments". It is way too hot to wear a toupee. So MOST guys clipper shave or shave it completely. MSI has started to become popular, but it mostly looks absurd, people with purple scalps.