Recent content by epictetus

I'm starting to get desperate enough that I'm looking at the technical sales jobs. Except, I'm very self-conscious about being bald and homely. When I imagine most salesmen, I think "handsome." So, is it possible to do OK as a homely bald salesman?

Keeping the population in check is group selection, something that is thoroughly debunked by population geneticists. You can read more here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/kw/the_tragedy_of_group_selectionism/

ghg, You have good bone structure, including a large, angular jaw. Baldness suits you. 9 fingers? My grandfather was a carpenter. It was always strange to see any of his peers with 10 completely intact fingers. They were badasses. Churchill managed to overcome his lisp to be one of the...

When you have a shaved head, you're "the bald guy." It doesn't matter if you're funny, witty, rich or athletic. The only descriptor that others will use to distinguish you is "the bald guy."

I found myself so paranoid about being caught wearing dermatch that it defeated the whole point of wearing it.

Baldness is mostly X-linked. My dad has a full head of hair. I don't intend on having children. I'm one of evolution's failed experiments. Proof of that is that I'm 34 and a virgin.

If society didn't throw up so many barriers to pushing the reboot button, I'd keep hitting it until I spawned as an alpha male.

Yeah, I was normal looking before, so I'm subnormal with baldness. My only option is to buy companionship with a woman who actually interests me, whether it's through career, wealth or outright paying a hooker. Perhaps I should feel liberated from the rat race? After all, what does it matter...

Barcafan, Dude, you represent one of the infinitesimal number of men who look good bald. You don't belong here, seriously.

Over 80% of the variance in hair loss is explained by heredity. What is it about hair loss as a trait that makes people come up with cockamamie explanations that they don't for other traits? Why don't people concoct environmental theories for, say, jaw shape and size? Maybe Jay Leno chewed...

People harass me because I'm 33 and single. They want to set me up with unattractive women. If I turn them down with something like "not my type," then I clearly must be gay! I swear that some people don't really feel bad for me being single; they just want me to suffer like them.

Male models tend to still look good with a shaved head. Why? Excellent bone structure. The rules that apply to male models don't apply to the rest of us.

I've become a recluse, and I've mostly given up on women. Guys with hair have shut me down on various occasions when I was having some success with women by pointing out my balding head in front of them. They didn't even like them; it was just to reinforce some primate hierarchy where bald...

If this guy had good teeth, he'd look like me. Is it any wonder that suicidal ideation is a constant companion of mine?

Even without women, baldness makes a person look old and all the negative connotations that come with it. Before I started balding, there used to be a bald guy who advertised for Kashi on TV. You could tell he kept in good shape, but he still looked way older than his years (mid-twenties). My...