blackg
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That was so well said, hairblues.I know what you mean..and agree to an extent.
if you notice i rarely complain about my hair because even though it is devastating to me personally, and i am mostly scared of how it will progress.. i am also well aware that for a 45 year old woman i am lucky compared to others here because it's not very noticeable to others (still no topik needed), I'm responding pretty well to medication compared to most, and in my 20s and 30s was completely unaffected by any hair loss.
So it sucks don't get me wrong and i am devastated personally--but it would be like 'cry me a river' to constantly complain about it on here--but once in a while i share my thoughts/feelings and people are respectful and compassionate which is nice to read at those times i feel weak about it...I don't come here for constant sympathy or to express my anger, it's not 'why' i come here..I come here because it's people experiencing an issue, that although all different age/gender/lifestye/degree of hair loss, the core issue is still shared ..we are all affected by hair loss on a social level weather we are doing it to ourselves to some degree out of depression or a sense of loss or society is doing it to us via actual rejection. For me its the first not the second and I am fully aware of the difference.
I think BH was not that cognizant to his pain in relation to others here...Thats at least how it struck me..And it' not because he is a bad guy--it is more likely he is in such a place of deep pain that to him he just not thinking about how 'is this going to be a trigger for an incel who has it worse than me? '"
Because pain is a selfish emotion...not saying selfish in a bad way but pain makes it very difficult to stay aware of how its going to effect someone else because it can be overwhelming and desperate emotion.
For him his minimal hair loss impacted him hard mentally.
When he spoke about this Father, who sounds a lot like my own (I always told people I am so glad I was not a boy lol because my Father would have ground me down to nothing--and its probably why BH wants a daughter over a son because that relationship was probably so toxic to him)..Something happening to your looks when you have a Father or maybe a Mother like that--is incredibly difficult.
You're right. Pain is often so intense and also so personal that it can often completely blind us to our privilege.
I was more disappointed in the way some posters here rejected Baldhurts, than anything else.
I know he was good looking, but damn, he guy was in misery!
I considered him a brother in pain.
Not someone to be in competition with because of his looks.
Because that's what it all boils down to in the end.
That damned male ego!