Survey of 738 18-22yo women: Baldness has negligible impact on male attractiveness
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lol at the people who think this is true
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About women's preferences.
Some twenty years ago, here in Italy there was a reality TV show where a girl picked a random single guy she liked in the street and the guy would receive a vacation as a prize for his charms.
The girl and the guy would spend one hour together and the guy would then decide if he wanted to go on vacation with the girl who had chosen him or with a friend of his.
In one episode, the "choosing" girl was an Austrian girl. Austrians are not very diplomatic compared to Italians. So you could see she would speak her mind. They asked her "why did you choose this particular guy?" She replied "I don't know why I choose guys. I can be attracted to different types. Except for bald men. That, I cannot accept."
Some twenty years ago, here in Italy there was a reality TV show where a girl picked a random single guy she liked in the street and the guy would receive a vacation as a prize for his charms.
The girl and the guy would spend one hour together and the guy would then decide if he wanted to go on vacation with the girl who had chosen him or with a friend of his.
In one episode, the "choosing" girl was an Austrian girl. Austrians are not very diplomatic compared to Italians. So you could see she would speak her mind. They asked her "why did you choose this particular guy?" She replied "I don't know why I choose guys. I can be attracted to different types. Except for bald men. That, I cannot accept."
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In one episode, the "choosing" girl was an Austrian girl. Austrians are not very diplomatic compared to Italians. So you could see she would speak her mind. They asked her "why did you choose this particular guy?" She replied "I don't know why I choose guys. I can be attracted to different types. Except for bald men. That, I cannot accept."
More harm than good?
If we had a choice, which answer would we choose....the honest response (presumably) that kills with one swift blow what's left of our moral integrity
or the "sweet intended lie" that is already known to cause any insecure bald recipient, a slower and more miserable moral death?
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I think sincerity is always the key. Me, I would have liked more sincerity about the possible implications of hair loss, which have always been absconded from me.
It takes tact, of course, but things have to be discussed. Of course, you don't want to say to a teenager who is losing his hair: "you're done for" and not expect him to be depressed. At the same time, you may want to prepare them for the discrimination they will suffer, so they don't blame themselves when it does occur.
My experience: when I was a kid, some relatives asked my father how he was coping with hair loss. He used to reply "I don't give a d**n, it doesn't matter. Those who care are idiots." With the result that not only did I regret losing my own hair when it happened to me: I also thought I was an idiot to care because my parent taught me that caring about hair loss was for idiots...
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You said it Roberto, "sincerity and tact are key".
I am fond of the expression: that it's not what you say, it's how you say it.
Yes your father was tough, but I mostly agree with his attitude, his tactless insensibilities you had to endure.., well not so much.
Ironically, when I was a kid my father, who was a fortuitous full blown NW1 the majority of his life (7+ decades)and habitually humbly comported, would often vocalize personal anxiety/concern about hair loss.
It would take some collective effort on our part to reassure him that his hair quality and coverage was pinnacle caliber.
Another peculiar part to this story
is that he had promised to me on a couple random occasions, that I would never go bald?!
Maybe the worst part for me is that I believed him.
So yes,although almost tonally polar opposite in style at least, I will say that both our dad's ignorance of the influential power they wielded and it's far reaching effects on each of their sons, served to compound their son's future challenges confronting hair loss.
I am fond of the expression: that it's not what you say, it's how you say it.
Yes your father was tough, but I mostly agree with his attitude, his tactless insensibilities you had to endure.., well not so much.
Ironically, when I was a kid my father, who was a fortuitous full blown NW1 the majority of his life (7+ decades)and habitually humbly comported, would often vocalize personal anxiety/concern about hair loss.
It would take some collective effort on our part to reassure him that his hair quality and coverage was pinnacle caliber.
Another peculiar part to this story
is that he had promised to me on a couple random occasions, that I would never go bald?!
Maybe the worst part for me is that I believed him.
So yes,although almost tonally polar opposite in style at least, I will say that both our dad's ignorance of the influential power they wielded and it's far reaching effects on each of their sons, served to compound their son's future challenges confronting hair loss.