A friend of mine asked me if I noticed that when younger men are going bald these days, they just shave their heads and be done with it. In her day, balding was a sign of lack of virility and men did anything, including comb-overs and hair implants to cover up their exposed scalps. In her day, the only men who went bald were the clowns in the circus.
But today, younger men have embraced their hairless heads, and we all applaud their "courage" and even tell them how "sexy" they look. So my question is why doesn't that same standard apply to women? Lots of women have receding hairlines or thinning scalps due to hereditary factors, illness or menopause. If any of them dared to shave their thinning hair off (or at the very least cut it extremely short), they would be treated like cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy --- shock and pity.
Hmmm. If I was brave, I'd shave mine off as a social experiment, but I gotta admit, I'm not that brave..
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