Bald Wingman (Rogaine ad)

[champpy]

They are just confirming our biggest fears w this ad. We feel undesirable w this condition and rogaine is basically saying " yep bald men are 3rd rate citizens that nobody wants"
G damn this makes me mad.

[hellouser]

There would be a boycott. But nooo, its funny when it happens to guys cause we can take it.

Correction; BALD guys. The only openly encouraged health problem that can be humiliated. Unless your Sharon Osbourne.

[diffuseloser]

Unbelievable. They will pay for this **** up. Watching the TV series "The Strain" at the minute. The lead is a guy called Corey Stoll, who is completely bald in real life. He's a good looking fella even without hair, so it tells us everything we need to know that for his role in "The Strain" he is given an artificial, full head of hair. Clearly it's not acceptable for the lead man to be bald.

[sagat]

This is an unwanted red pill to the masses. I don't think there has ever been an ad regarding hairloss on this level of derogatory before. This will definitely influence the opinion of the opposite sex once this gets mainstream. I think the majority of people are consciously unaware of it's negative effects on us at this point of time. But soon they will, partly due to ads like this as a result we will be further castrated.

[tipsfedora]

We have survived for thousands of years. A mere ad won't kill us. But it bothers me simply because it is nothing I can do about it, unlike fatness which is based on caloric intake.


If I had to train physically to have hair, I'd train more than Schwarzenegger himself.

[champpy]

We have survived for thousands of years. A mere ad won't kill us. But it bothers me simply because it is nothing I can do about it, unlike fatness which is based on caloric intake.


If I had to train physically to have hair, I'd train more than Schwarzenegger himself.

of course this won't kill us but this affects millions of men in negative ways. this causes plenty of us unwanted stress and depression. and now the company that supposed to be helping us is literally making us the butt of their joke. there's plenty of things in the world that won't kill you, but it doesn't need to be made a joke out of. I can think of no other condition that face is kind of ridicule.

"hey world I'm genetically predisposed to lose my hair. nothing I can do about it no matter how hard I try. let's all make fun of me and treat me me as if im inferior"

(I take it back there is one other condition that gets treated as more of a joke than balding. being a little person/midget is treated as hilarious. I've never found that funny and think it's sick that people use them as a punchline)

[champpy]

anybody happen to have an email address that would reach someone within Rogaine? I'm sending them an email tonight when I get home expressing my displeasure with this crap. I suggest we all let them know we think as well

[NeedHairASAP]

Lots of people on twitter (with full heads of hair) laughing hysterically about this...

Baldness is pretty much the only genetic deformity that you can openly mock, laugh at, and belittle with complete immunity.

If you called a girl a "fat slob who nobody wants to hookup with" on facebook, people would have a facebook protest page with your name on it in 20 minutes. Screenshots of what you said. and so forth...

but baldness, you can post this video with "WOW SO FUNNY, reminds me of [tag your bald friend]"

and everyone will be like "yeah [tagged bald friend] is genetically inferior and programmed to be ugly for life"

nobody blinks

your tagged bald friend just has to be like "hahah yeah guys I'm such an inferior person. Of all the lotteries in life, I drew the biggest losing ticket of them all. so funny!!! anyway you guys want to go out this weekend??!!"

[tipsfedora]

This needs to go full protest mode. We have a LEGIT REASON. And AGA hits 70% of men ! There is nothing to be ashamed of this ! Wake up !

[xyz123]

But it bothers me simply because it is nothing I can do about it, unlike fatness which is based on caloric intake.


If I had to train physically to have hair, I'd train more than Schwarzenegger himself.

This will change in the future - hair will become like teeth. 50 years ago before the advent of reasonable dental hygiene, a large proportion of people ended up with horrific looking teeth in mid- to late-life. The process was no doubt the same - day to day, people would look in the mirror and watch their teeth going to shit... Now - brush your teeth a couple of times per day, go to the dentist once per year - and you can have good teeth - or at least the semblance of good teeth - for the bulk of your life.

Within 10 years (hopefully a lot sooner), that will become the case for hair. Take a pill or rub foam in your hair once per day starting at an early age and everyone will be able to enjoy full and thick hair - side effect free - for life, assuming you remain compliant. Because AGA is SO common (though to varying degrees), this will become standard for EVERYONE (even people that were just going to progress to a thick NW1.5 will want to keep their NW0 - that, and once any recession begins, no one initially knows if they're going to stop at NW1.5 or progress to NW7). Picking up hair foam or pills will be like picking up toothpaste at the grocery store. There will be no stigma attached to it because everyone will do it - in fact, it will be weird not to - like going to someone's house and them not having toothpaste. And people that do progress despite medication or due to non-compliance, will be able to go to a hair specialist and have everything fixed - akin to someone who goes to the dentist for cavities.

I just can't wait until that day gets here...