whatintheworld
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Because no one is seriously discussing this problem. How often do you even hear about it? How often do you see on TV about the problem of baldness that destroys men's lives? How often do you hear from men that their lives are over because they are bald? No one discusses this and considers it a problem. Most people in the world don't even know what Minoxidil and finasteride are. They don't even look for any medicine. How many balding people take Minoxidil and finasteride? absolute minority. I met a friend at the gym a couple of years ago. He was obviously losing his hair, but he could save it. I told him that he was going bald and so was I. I told him that there are medications that can stop this process. But he wasn't interested in the subject at all. I then saw him a year later and he had a completely shaved head. Obviously, he didn't start taking medication because he doesn't care. Don't think that all men on the planet care so much about hair
Again your inability to use simple logic fails.
That dose not mean he doesn't care. That means that he preferred not to take medication. And first of all, taking medication does not mean you can save your hair. You are committing to something for life without any sort of guarantee, in fact many such people still lose hair because their baldness is too aggressive to be stopped by medication.
So, he did what a lot of people do, and other people do not. He probably did a cost-benefit analysis and did not want to be on a prostate shrinking drug for his whole life, and be a slave to minoxidil twice a day for life.
That does not mean he doesn't care. If you understand basic logic you can follow this.
So you are using the argument, well if it was important, it would be on TV. What advantage would there be for any advertisers to run TV programs for male pattern baldness. To gain a leg up on the generic finasteride/minoxidil pharmaceutical industry? Why would a hair transplant clinic pay money to advertise on television?
Further, ignore baldness for a moment, what problems "does" society encourage men to talk about? Maybe only PTSD after coming back from war? If you haven't been living under a rock, you would acknowledge that in general, it is not respected nor deemed acceptable for men to whine about problems in public.