After Reading This, I Feel Like An Idiot

[Chromedome1990]

Well , i am almost 2 years depressed cause hair loss, all the day thinking how hair loss ruined my life at 25 years old, thinking to suicide if i cant find a solution to a slick bald head...

Today i came to this article : https://www.google.com.ar/amp/s/www...hat-bungling-doctors-mistook-for-the-flu/amp/

I feel like a totally sh*t , i feel like a totally stupid idiot obsessed with “hairs”. Now i think the real problem wasnt hair loss but my stupid vanity. Its time to forget the past and focus to live the life like man not like a vanity kid.

Oh boo hoo, poor Chad who'd been living life on cloud 9 his whole life got dealt a sh*t hand out of the blue, due to the misdiagnosis of an STD he probably contracted from one of his 20 f*** buddies, and now will have to live with artificial limbs? How awful! All cynicism aside, yeah it sucks this happened to him. At the same time though, you have to stop & think if he wasn't a Chad & instead was Norwood 4 and looked like a gargoyle, would he even have a chance with his crowdfunding campaign? There's no doubt he'll meet the goal, mostly because he's good looking and these media outlets will sensationalize stories like this because the victim is "omg so cute <3!1111!!"

I'm sure vanity is a large part of why a lot of men try to fight hair loss, but for me and many others it's the halo effect associated with healthy looking hair vs. a receding bird's nest. Whether you care about hair is one thing, but ultimately it doesn't matter since society as a whole WILL judge you based on your hair. This is true whether you're trying to ask a woman out, are going in for a job interview, meeting prospective customers, giving presentations, or even getting good service at a restaurant. First impressions are everything, and your hair/face is the first thing most people will see in you. What do you think looks better, having a full Norwood 3 or below, or looking like some cancer patient with a diffusing Norwood 4+? I couldn't care less about my own personal appearance to be honest, but what is important to me is not being treated like a leper, and basically if you look like sh*t people will assume you're a sh*t person. That's the halo effect in a nutshell.

tl;dr: You can insist your hair loss isn't a big deal & it doesn't bother you, but don't say society won't care because they will.

 

[Funkymonk1]

Probably true. This wouldn't even be a news story if he wasn't a pretty boy.

 

[blackg]

There's no doubt he'll meet the goal, mostly because he's good looking and these media outlets will sensationalize stories like this because the victim is "omg so cute <3!1111!!"

 

[Exodus2011]

To the O.P., vanity is something we learn to value at a very young age , it's not your fault, it's instilled in us like the poison it is, we were also told to value how others think of us, it's all grade school sh*t,peer groups etc.
The older I get the more I say f*** em, these b****s annoy me like the cops! lol

lmaoooooooo its not cultural or instilled in us. we are inherently wired to care about looks. FOR FUCKS SAKES BABIES LOOK AT MORE ATTRACTIVE FACES LONGER lollll

 

[Cue Bald]

lol funny you should say that i remembe babies staring at me when i had my hair, if a baby was crying i could look at it in the eyes and it would stop crying.

now it is the other way around, when a baby sees me it cries and when a small child sees me they hide behind their mother.


but yeah it could be worse. a guy on the reddit hair loss section was posting saying he is 5'4" tall, Norwood 6 and has a penis under 4" long. Damn I don't think I would have the mental strength to go on if that was me

 

[That Guy]

damn it looks so real, people in the comments are saying it's his real hair and that the video is fake.
without hair he looks like a banker or a middle manager you wouldn't look twice at.
with hair people are offering him modelling jobs.
so hair doesn't matter ???

I know that people will "rrrRREEEEEEEE" at me for this, as always.

But I stand by it, and I'm sorry Fred; I know you're watching from Polar-Bear Asgard

If you are a high Norwood, a hairpiece is by far and away better than anything else you can do until the day we have something better like hair multiplication. "But people might find out!" Frankly: That's a subjective, personal problem.

Both of the guys in the videos you shared look 1000x better afterwards, and no one would be able to tell it's not their own hair. And I don't buy that most people are going to care if they do find out.

With the piece, these guys would do much better professionally, socially, romantically, etc. and the results are far better than they would possibly get from a transplant. It's not a perfect option, but it's the best one you have.

 

[yurguardianangel]

the thing is losing your hair can make as much as a difference as losing a limb.
honestly i would sacrifice a leg below the knee for a norwood 1.
look at the difference hair makes vs being bald (and this guy still has some hair)
he goes from being a drug addict to a model

Would definatly NOT sacrifice a limb for hairloss.

Because when you get much older, not just hairloss with be the issue.
Lines/wrinkles,etc will also be a problem.

It's pretty much game over for vanity/looks when it's baldness + wrinkles + grey/white hair.
I care about hairloss in my 30's, wouldn't give a flying f*** in my 60's.
Or maybe not even care in my 50's if I started to look old with wrinkles.

 

[genetically_cursed]

sorry, bro, but thats a cope

balding affects your looks drastically

your looks impact your life majorly

your life results in your mood

simple

 

[arnoldd]

sorry, bro, but thats a cope

balding affects your looks drastically

your looks impact your life majorly

your life results in your mood

simple

Exactly man, and in yours 20 or 30s is even more difficult, at least when you pass your 40s you can accept it like a cause of getting older..

 

[Funkymonk1]

We could swap this around. Would guys prefer a facially good looking woman with some kind of physical deformity or an average/below average looking woman who was otherwise "normal"?