Bald Shaming evidence

[Folliman]

tl;dr: Please help me find links with bald shaming instances, I will attempt to do something against it.

I am thinking of writing a well thought email describing the emotional impact of hair loss and bald shaming and send it to multiple (known and not so know) bloggers with hopes that they write something about it and make their readers think twice before making a "friendly bald joke" to their friends. Even if I don't make a big change I want to do something about it. It is frustrating how people are unaware of the problem. People have suicidal thoughts about hair loss and their friends have no idea they are contributing to their depression!

So far I only have one place I believe it will be worth sending this to.
Hellogiggles.com It is a community for women but their posters are quite open and have written articles about body shaming in general and they have a fair number of readers.

I'll do a little research to target more websites. In the meantime I need you guys to help me find evidence of bald shaming instances to add them to the email. It could be a video, an article, a facebook screencap, anything! I want the list to be HUGE. The intention is not to make them look at every single link. I just want them to click a few and see that it's a big list that could be going forever. I think that will make a point.

I'll be adding all the evidence collected to this first post for easy access and If we get articles, emails, etc. in response I'll post them here as well.

Sites Targeted:
HelloGiggles.com
Buzzfeed.com
Everydayfeminism.com
Nobodyshame.com

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Other links:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16307704
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1607410
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12492971 (Korean)
http://thebaldmovement.weebly.com/

Evidence:
http://i60.tinypic.com/2qs59na.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xRALcZH.png
https://twitter.com/search?q=JORDAN SPEITH HAIR&src=typd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frsvWVEHowg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74JFeqJsEmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUgdFh2D__Y (Comments)
http://i.imgur.com/oEjmuDm.png

 

[Exodus2011]

great idea. i'd start with the studies that quantify the psychological effects of baldness

here are a few i was looking up

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16307704
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1607410
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12492971 (this one is korean so factor that in)

and i see people negatively comment on baldies on facebook all the time. from now on i'll screenshot them and put them here

 

[Folliman]

Great! that will help.

 

[hellouser]

great idea. i'd start with the studies that quantify the psychological effects of baldness

here are a few i was looking up

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16307704
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1607410
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12492971 (this one is korean so factor that in)

and i see people negatively comment on baldies on facebook all the time. from now on i'll screenshot them and put them here

Don't you even dare blackout their names. These assholes DESERVE to be exposed.

 

[Exodus2011]

i don't know if that will be allowed hellouser

but i see it all the time

if you want an easy one that shows how baldness sucks just look up "matthew santoro" on facebook and then "danisnotonfire" on facebook

both youtube stars with around 4 million subscribers, but you have a bunch of young cuties complimenting danisnotonfire(young emo looking guy) and just a bunch of dudes lol'ing at matthew santoros baldness. **** sucks so much. i don't even see any girls on matts page complimenting him

 

[hellouser]

i don't know if that will be allowed hellouser

You're going to think about ethics for scumbags that enforce the bottomfeeding social class they want us in?

No mercy for these assholes, just call them out.

 

[Folliman]

It wouldn't make a difference to me if you decide to black out their names or not, it's up to you.

 

[Saurabhaj]

My facebook account donot have my profile pic because either their will be less likes or people will tell me something about my hair.
My bhabhi's (wife of cousin) father is photographer.
When they made a video cd of the engagement ceremony,they eliminated me from that video when i went to stage after 1 minute of taking group photos with all cousin's and i was not in them from start because i was talking with one Neurologist from mumbai
When i saw the video i was disheartened because i was not shown in that video,they edited iut me but i thought okay maybe they didnot know me that i was groom's first cousin brother..

I used to first think that how women young girls will feel about me but now i am thinking how elder women and men believe about me.
Young women in India half of which will never people on hairloss..
Many common girls that are not rich have always been kind to me..
Nothing wrong in there behaviour with me..respecting me..
When i met with a sister(nurse) for blood sampling,she asked me about my age..i thought i should tell her my age as 35 but told the truth that iam 27,she was damned coold with me and she did not any uninterested look..
I was so happy for such people in this world.

I never scared being among girls but i am damned scared when i am with older men and women who will not be kind for this.

I was warned by girl that i should try hard to have love marriage because arrange marriage where parents decides girl for their daughter will be too chalenging for me...
I am really started believeing in warning...

 

[xetudor]

I was warned by girl that i shoukd try hard to have love marriage because arrange marriage where parenta decides girl for their daughter will be too chalenging for me...

Arrange marriage are so backwards. I can't believe Indians still do this kind of stuff.

 

[Saurabhaj]

There is a reason..
When you are beautiful..there will be line of girls waiting to get hitched..
But what when someone is not good luking...

Arrange marriage is the only way...
Also many times even beautiful and rich class also have arrange marriage..

 

[Bottlecap]

People will just take the piss that balding people are upset about going bald and that we take offence when people joke about it.

It's incredible that such a life changing thing is so openly mocked. It's crazy that fat people are defended when all they have too do is stop stuffing their f*cking mouths with cake and lose some f*cking weight and then they wouldn't look so f*cking discusting. Where us baldies can't help looking discusting but have too put up with all the "banter"

Wankers, all of em!

 

[Agustin Araujo]

As extreme as this seems, from everything that I've observed about this 'political correctness' that goes around in society, apparently it's absolutely not acceptable to make fun of anyone's defect except if they suffer from hair loss. The ones who say hair loss isn't a big deal and say to shave it all off are the same ones who'll make fun of people who are bald and for being that way. They're also the same ones who'll complain and cry about external things that they've lost when they don't know the pain of losing something that's naturally a part of one's self, something internal. Someone can lose external things like their job, home, car, anything external which anyone is capable of moving on from, is given sympathy. While something like hair loss, which has been proven to have the potential to ruin anyone's life, is seen as something silly, ridiculous, and even looked at as a 'joke' condition to make fun of.

 

[Folliman]

Finding evidence on the web is harder than I anticipated. I guess most of it is personal experience? anyone?

 

[Exodus2011]

Finding evidence on the web is harder than I anticipated. I guess most of it is personal experience? anyone?

check out facebook pics and youtube vids of baldies. also comments on articles dealing with bald celebs/baldness in general

really easy to find there

 

[RoyD]

@xetudor our marriages last longer though.

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There is a reason..
When you are beautiful..there will be line of girls waiting to get hitched..
But what when someone is not good luking...

Arrange marriage is the only way...
Also many times even beautiful and rich class also have arrange marriage..

Yeah arranged marriages are useful for us though. Mostly it's like a transaction where both parties have to bring something to the table as a safety deposit if you may say. The guy brings his job and money and the girl brings her beauty. The more rich or successful the guy is the hotter the wife he can demand and the hotter the girl the more rich a partner. Arranged marriages are the only hope for bald men in India. No girl is going to fall in love with a 'takla' and that too get married to him. No bollywood actor or celebrity in India is bald unless he's playing the role of someone's dad or being made fun of. Most politicians also have combovers. You just can't win being a a baldie in India.

 

[elixir86]

Feeling bad for my hair thinning.

Attached pics. Does Mahabringraj Tel(Oil) help in regrowth?

 

[Exodus2011]

the only things that work are the big 3, they are proven to work through directly observed and documented clinical studies. its also easy to see the million results photos on google. just look up "propecia results" or "rogaine results"

 

[hellouser]

just type the word BALD into a search on twitter and you'll have millions of examples.

 

[RoyD]

Feeling bad for my hair thinning.

Attached pics. Does Mahabringraj Tel(Oil) help in regrowth?

I'm guessing with that hair oil name you are Indian. My answer is HELL NO! There are no oils at all which help. Google Finasteride and Minoxidil for starts and then do your research. Just remember no matter what people say no oil works!

 

[hellouser]

just type the word BALD into a search on twitter and you'll have millions of examples.

Just did a search this way and ended up on an interesting campaign here:

http://thebaldmovement.weebly.com/

Of course, it's promoting support only for women.