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.
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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 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.
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.
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.
Make it so.
You could also make it Sisko.
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.
Ive seen this. They respond truthfully.
As in, "your hair is fine, don't do it"?
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
I bet someone with good hair has asked, but I wonder what they replied.
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!
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It's not necessarily envy. It just could be that they get caught up in the idea that everyone looks better bald.
Fair point!
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
Is that One-punch-man and Foot-sole-face-man?
It's AI slop
It's may be made with AI, but I'm not sure you can call it slop. It is an adaptation from an old anime, and people seem to very clearly understand the meaning/intention.
~~It doesn't even look like AI to me, looks like a very simple edit. ~~ I stand corrected
Look at them side by side, the faces are completely different
Oh, you're right. AI slop it is.
What makes it slop exactly?
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
If my hair ever falls out I'll just get a transplant. Fuck going bald
Have long hair and about to be 35. It's it stays going I'm going to be like my dad and Shane it off.
I'm thinking the other way: if it ever happens to me, I'll just embrace the baldness. But I imagine it's a lot easier to say that now than it would be at the time.
As someone who did just that, it’s all about perspective: balding is a condition; bald is a choice.
I've had long hair like a sindardin elf my entire life. This would be traumatic af to me. I'll just pay to win. Lol