Guilt.

[Funkymonk1]

Anyone else now feel guilty about laughing at baldies when they were younger?
I remember my best mate started going bald at high school. We all made fun of this from time to time, not in a overly bullying or nasty way but you know how teenage boys like to wind each other up. He's never been a vain guy and he never made out that it bothered him but thinking back it must have been horrible to start losing your hair as a teenager. I mean I'm 36 and it's horrible for me, never mind a kid. Now it looks like I'm catching him up lol. I guess that's a kind of karma in a way.

 

[shookwun]

I do it all the time. The lanky nw7 horse shoe ones always Crack me up.

I feel like reaching out nd getting them in gym

 

[Cue Bald]

lol when I was a teenager I didn't notice baldness at all. it was something for old men. when I pictured myself as an older guy (imagining myself in my 20's - 30's - 40's) i always pictured myself as a guy with shaggy black hair - this will sound very stupid but when I was a kid aged 10 - 12, I wanted to have hair like Snape from harry potter when I was older and always hated my mother taking me for hair cuts. I wanted hair like Snape to stand out and not be just another boring adult.

 

[xetudor]

I never laughed at bald men. Even as a kid I saw it as a sick punishment by nature, not something to mock.

 

[DannyBoyy]

I have always seen being bald as another look someone had, there was no reason for me to think it was bad unless i was "brainwashed" to think so or something.

 

[Agustin Araujo]

I have always seen being bald as another look someone had, there was no reason for me to think it was bad unless i was "brainwashed" to think so or something.

Same here.

When I was a kid, I used to think men who were bald with the horseshoe pattern grown out was some type of hair style they had. Other than that, I really never payed much attention to it.

 

[hellouser]

I have always seen being bald as another look someone had, there was no reason for me to think it was bad unless i was "brainwashed" to think so or something.

This.

Then I moved to Toronto, Canada and quickly realized how full of shit people are.

 

[P_AC1999]

I've never laughed at balding men, or already nw7s, I've never found it that ugly neither, but I just don't think it would look good on me like it does in vin diesel and Bruce willis

 

[shookwun]

I actually had more respect for my dad when he got rid of his system after 20 years of wearing one and rocked his Nw6-7. To me, owning that look was bad ***. He never had a hard time attracting women, unless they were superficial. When him and my mom separated he was actively dating and didn't have a hard finding something.

Always thought wearing a hair piece was for pussy men

 

[Digidako]

I never paid attention to anyone's hairline (bald or not) until I started becoming obsessed with my own

 

[nameless]

I never paid attention to anyone's hairline (bald or not) until I started becoming obsessed with my own

This.

 

[DannyBoyy]

Says alot if most here didnt pay any attention before their own loss dont it? now imagine how many others are the same? think about that the next time you think about "society" judging us, and not the one who do go round judging.

 

[shookwun]

They judge, just in a more cynical, and non-analytical approach.

Her Amongst friends: 'Oh, he's unattractive, and balding ha ha'

her with a male pattern baldness sufferer: 'it doesn't look bad, to be honest I didn't even notice'

Sufferers: "he looks to be a NW3 with NW5 diffuse"

 

[DannyBoyy]

They judge, just in a more cynical, and non-analytical approach.

Her Amongst friends: 'Oh, he's unattractive, and balding ha ha'

her with a male pattern baldness sufferer: 'it doesn't look bad, to be honest I didn't even notice'

Sufferers: "he looks to be a NW3 with NW5 diffuse"

But they are the ones who notice im on about the ones who dont...

 

[nameless]

Says alot if most here didnt pay any attention before their own loss dont it? now imagine how many others are the same? think about that the next time you think about "society" judging us, and not the one who do go round judging.

+1

 

[Folliman]

It's not so much that society mocks bald/balding men, but they praise NW1s which makes us feel alienated. But yeah, there's the occasional mockery (and magazine's zooming in to celebrities receding hairlines, I HATE THAT). Just last weekend I watched two movies at a friend's place and in each movie there was a joke about balding. I cringed inside.

As a kid I didn't think too much about balding, for me it was just a feature some old guys had, just like wrinkles/dentures/glasses/canes.

 

[blackg]

I didn't think too much about bald people either.
But it didn't take me long to figure out that going bald at a young age was a heavy burden for guys trying to pick up girls in nightclubs.
The legal drinking age is 18 down here, so to see some poor unfortunate balding 18-24 year olds trying to score was very noticeable.

 

[big_head]

I never made fun of baldies, I would always just think "thank god that won't happen to me until I'm like 60!"

I wish someone, like my barbers, were a bit more candid with me.

 

[pjhair]

I never made fun of baldies. I didn't even notice it until some of my friends started balding and started telling me how worried they were about it. But once I started noticing it, I knew it was a big problem.

 

[I.D WALKER]

I never liked beating on anyone especially when they were already down/bald, well that is except yours truly.
male pattern baldness blindsided me terribly. Naïve and/or foolhardy I was about the unpredictable nature of hair loss I never saw it coming.