Can't argue with this.
I guess the only problem is how the "true opinion" is handled, our gut reaction to any acknowledgement of baldness is, hurt. I feel pain even hearing the topic come up with people around me, and hope to f*** the conversation doesn't turn to me. Not even "as a balding guy, what do you think?" but simply, like the other day talking about Wayne Rooney's famous transplant, and actually people not blaming him for doing it, I really didn't want anyone to ask me what I thought (someone kind of did but I just sort of shrugged neutrally).
In theory I would welcome open criticism of baldness aesthetically, of course if it spread awareness. In practice most of us would sh*t ourselves.
A guy wrote a topic recently about how pissed off he was with his hairdresser, that she texted him simply requesting he jumps on propecia, seemed to bring this out as openly as "Take some lemon and honey for your cold", and he was outraged. From a lot of people reading it, including me I think, his reaction was a bit extreme, and the hairdresser was justified in her logical suggestion. But in practice I can understand how the guy felt, to get that written to you, something so personal and private just, put out there so bluntly, I probably could have reacted the same.
So that's the problem, we want awareness but at the same time we find it hard to deal with.
I don't know about you, but for me I don't want casual dinner table chats turning into how my hair is progressing or regressing lately, actually I probably wouldn't leave the house for a week after something like that.