I've said hair is not imperative. Since I got laid with no hair many times.
I said you needed to have compensatory physical features: height, good face, good head shape, tan, large frame, etc.
You gave the usual BS about personality and confidence. Pay attention.
Freds delusional from all the years of severe mental trauma dont worry about his negative views
Realism my *** , more like im a **** **** so I'll make everyone feel the same
Fred is NOT delusional, son. Fred speaks of a world that is out there.....just waiting for your ***. You'll see!Freds delusional from all the years of severe mental trauma dont worry about his negative views
Realism my *** , more like im a **** **** so I'll make everyone feel the same
I've never said that. Was my life over when I started balding? Nope?
Did it become way less pleasant and filled with more daily struggles? Definitely.
As horrible as it was. People wouldn't pass in front of me pointing and laughing at my bald head like uncomfortable man experienced.
Does the term alpha male still exist today in our society, taking evolution in consideration?
People here know my most horrible experience with baldness. It wasn't with Belgians, but in an Irish bar.
Tell me winnyblues, how would you react to a group of five men singing "HE HAS NO HAIR" in front of an entire bar watching you?
It wouldn't traumatize you at all, right? Because you're that much of an alpha male.
You would have taken them all down with your Bruce Lee skills?! ... Was that racist?
I was going to post this as a new thread, but I'm not able to do this yet, so I'll post it here.
Watch this advert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC0QN__h2-U
Four of the women in the advert chose the following twelve characteristics:
French
Tall
Stylish
Dark
Tall
Strong
Tall
Dark
Muscles
Humour
Sexy
Money
This is why I chosen to have a hair transplant recently because otherwise I'm probably going to die alone. That's the reality of the situation. And I actually have some of those qualities! I'm quite tall, I have a pretty decent physique, better than average, and I'm reasonably well off financially. It's still not enough to get a decent woman because they all want (and believe that they're going to get) someone tall, DARK and handsome.
The ones that don't mention hair probably just assume that their ideal guy will have hair and that they don't need to mention this. Certainly you could ask 100 women, and I would be surprised if any of them listed 'bald' as one of the three characteristics.
To some extent you can compensate with socio-economic status, but this is less important than looks. I was tall and dark, I certainly am not any more! So you're in the bin straight away.
What I would say is, firstly, it's a good thing that women are now being honest about their desires, instead of pretending that confidence or a good sense of humour are important. And, secondly, I don't blame women for this, and I'm not bitter about it, because they're just following their biological programming. It's no more possible for them to change this than it is for me to not be attracted to a Playboy model.
I think some of the threads in this forum slightly exaggerate the impact of being bald. But you can forget about the BS that people come out with about being yourself. If you're not attractive, it's much better to be someone else, otherwise you will inevitably experience poor outcomes in life.
I was going to post this as a new thread, but I'm not able to do this yet, so I'll post it here.
Watch this advert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC0QN__h2-U
Four of the women in the advert chose the following twelve characteristics:
French
Tall
Stylish
Dark
Tall
Strong
Tall
Dark
Muscles
Humour
Sexy
Money
This is why I chosen to have a hair transplant recently because otherwise I'm probably going to die alone. That's the reality of the situation. And I actually have some of those qualities! I'm quite tall, I have a pretty decent physique, better than average, and I'm reasonably well off financially. It's still not enough to get a decent woman because they all want (and believe that they're going to get) someone tall, DARK and handsome.
The ones that don't mention hair probably just assume that their ideal guy will have hair and that they don't need to mention this. Certainly you could ask 100 women, and I would be surprised if any of them listed 'bald' as one of the three characteristics.
To some extent you can compensate with socio-economic status, but this is less important than looks. I was tall and dark, I certainly am not any more! So you're in the bin straight away.
What I would say is, firstly, it's a good thing that women are now being honest about their desires, instead of pretending that confidence or a good sense of humour are important. And, secondly, I don't blame women for this, and I'm not bitter about it, because they're just following their biological programming. It's no more possible for them to change this than it is for me to not be attracted to a Playboy model.
I think some of the threads in this forum slightly exaggerate the impact of being bald. But you can forget about the BS that people come out with about being yourself. If you're not attractive, it's much better to be someone else, otherwise you will inevitably experience poor outcomes in life.
Note that no-one said confidence. None of the five women listed confidence, so it had a 0% incidence among 15 characteristics.But but but but..... CONFIDENCE!!
There are a lot of social pressures on people to say what they think people want to hear. I do believe that for women these pressures are breaking down now because they essentially control the dating market (this is partly men's fault for bombarding them with attention). It's a good thing that we've become more aware that base physical attractiveness, the reptilian brain as you rightly point out, is important, as at least we will know where we stand.Really good post.
Also, it's important to distinguish between what people say they want and say they like, and what they actually want and like. This isn't to say that anybody's "lying", I'm sure women are being honest when they say they put ethics, intelligence, sense of humour first, they're just mistaken. What people want is in the reptilian brain, so to speak, sex has been around on this planet for ~1.3 billion years. Primate intelligence and things like a sense of humour, on the other hand, has been around for a few million years at most.
As for being yourself, or whatever, I think it's good advice in that nobody is a good actor, nobody is good at pretending. However, as a long-term project, it may help to improve yourself, improve yourself for real. In that situation you will still "be yourself", only the self will have changed.
ugh yep so true. white knights have ****ed things upNote that no-one said confidence. None of the five women listed confidence, so it had a 0% incidence among 15 characteristics.
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There are a lot of social pressures on people to say what they think people want to hear. I do believe that for women these pressures are breaking down now because they essentially control the dating market (this is partly men's fault for bombarding them with attention). It's a good thing that we've become more aware that base physical attractiveness, the reptilian brain as you rightly point out, is important, as at least we will know where we stand.
In terms of being yourself, I think it's often described as being the best version of yourself. But what I would say is that for some guys being the best versions of themselves still won't be good enough. We can easily identify the arbiters of male physical attraction, these have been well established:
Tall
Dark hair or if not then thick hair
Broad shoulders
Square Jaw
'Golden ratio' between shoulders and waist (approx 1.6:1)
Chiselled features
If you have none of those six things, if you're skinny / fat, short and bald, you've had it. You might as well start concentrating on your career 100% because that is going to be your best hope of digging yourself out of your situation. Then you can get a hair transplant and at least remedy the situation somewhat!
I read some topics in this section, and I’m really shocked! :O
I never tought baldness could influence so negatively a person's life.
I’m bald, I don’t like that for sure, but I have to say baldness didn’t affect at all my life (start to think I'm a very lucky one LOL).
I have sex regularly with pretty/hot girls, I didn’t experience any humiliation or mockery, I have a pretty good social life.
I would like to fix it, yes, it’s human to have the desire to improve aesthetically, but it’s not such a big deal.
And I know many guys in my situation (in Italy premature baldness is pretty common) who live normal lives despite hair loss.
I don’t know, maybe it’s the culture? Is baldness really viewed so negatively in the United States?
Where I live it is considered a physical flaw, sure, but not even close to the monstrous trait that is described here.
Maybe it is because it never bothers me too much? I can say that my attitude towards life didn't change (well, it changed a bit, but not because of hair loss).
I would like to discuss about that and, if I can, bring some positive contribution/advices to those who struggle a lot with hair loss.
But you're right, no reason to be obsessed about it, especially when it's other people who constantly reminds you that there's a problem with your hair.
Again, you're one of these people who will try to bend over backwards to deny a simple and commonly accepted truth: bald men are seen as ugly and discriminated against.