Also, hair on the top of your head means you have something to hide from the sky/sun god. Only the bald are pious and honest devotees, everyone else are duplicitous non-believers.
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To be fair, even today, the bald look makes you look like an open book, as in nothing to hide.
Conversely the emo hair makes it look like you have something to hide (your emotional scars).
why shouldn't being bald be part of fashion?
why is it only "having hair" fashionable?
we're ok with disability prosthetics like glasses becoming fashion statements. meanwhile for hair loss, the consensus is to shave it all.
hot take : it's because men have to be/are expected by society to be hypercompetant, and any divergence from that is shameful.
"oh, you got hair plugs instead of accepting your baldness? WEAK. PRETENDER."
(half baked expression of thoughts I've had for a while, don't even @ me, just think about it. May be edited a million years from now to express myself better)
it's always patriarchy.
i call this the splashback effect. the opposite of the curbcut effect. of a group oppreses another one, it'll inevitably hurt itself in the process (although only in small ways compared to the ones under their boot).
this is another small way that patriarchy affects men, by demanding they are like that.
you seem to get it. I have a paradoxical observance too : how come transmen are "less fought over"/"accepted as men" more than transwomen for the opposite while this "splashback effect" exists?
Like if a transman has no facial hair, is short, etc they are more readily accepted as "yeah sure it's a guy" than a transwoman that doesn't pass as well, with all the current rage that seems to be happening politically?
again, badly worded, might edit etc.
am a cis bloke, so take my uninformed opinion with a grain of salt, (giving uninformed opinions is part of white cis man culture). but aesthetic standards are much higher for women than men.
to be a woman is a fulltime performance with constant judgements. while a man can be a slob and is still a man.
to pass as a woman, the standards are much higher than passing as a man.
the "Splashback effect" is a term I made up,. wouldn't be surprised if there's an actual term for that for which I'm unaware.
I crave the laser beams in my eyes, though
rid me of these glass prisms
I'm not with you there man, the tradeoffs don't add up.
Wear glasses VS Ocular Torture PTSD + eyes will get worse again later, leading to glasses anyway.
My eyes are already shot to hell, if I can get a good decade or so of no glasses, I'll count it as a win.
yep, personal preference, just throwing in my uninvited opinion because I have a big mouth...
big fingers?
I'm actually looking forward to becoming bald. It will be a lot less work to wear stylish wigs
Hats also typically look better on bald men.
oooooooooo i could be a hat person
It's weird that this only affect men. It's like a weird joke that was played on us.
Forgot England and their wigs.
Accented Cinema: "... and then the Qing dynasty made everyone look stupid for three hundred years."