I see this said all over the place. I can't imagine someone without male pattern baldness being the one to say it so I suppose it is only balding men, or, gals who have not an idea what they're talking about, say that a man should cope with or embrace his baldness, and that it would show how manly he is.
This like many similar logic about hair loss is flawed and ignorant. If you want to discuss hormones and the like, the more testosterone or DHT you have is not reflective at all of your amount of head hair unless you have the gene that brought about this forum's existence, and that gene doesn't make you a man either, obviously.
MBP will show if you have enough DHT to affect prone hair follicles due to the gene, when a man with a lot more testosterone/DHT (which biologically makes the "man") will not go bald, so where's the baldness being more manly theory coming from?
I would guess what's meant is to be a man you must withstand some kind of suffering/pain, whether physical or if it bothers you. A woman withstanding tough times doesn't make her a man, so the correct phrase should be "be strong" on the inside. If that's the case I can use similar logic and say, you'd be more of a "man" if you decide to halt/reverse your androgenic hair loss while causing yourself impotency. After all, hardly any person out there would rather be impotent than bald; you wouldn't, so kick your pain up a notch and be "a man".
The whole "be a man" remark when speaking of baldness, AFAIC is saying to put up with suffering. It is not telling you to me more of a man since male pattern baldness is simply nothing more than an undesirable gene (except for those who like the bald look) and is associated with disease and/or old age, that has nothing to do with how much one is biologically male.
This like many similar logic about hair loss is flawed and ignorant. If you want to discuss hormones and the like, the more testosterone or DHT you have is not reflective at all of your amount of head hair unless you have the gene that brought about this forum's existence, and that gene doesn't make you a man either, obviously.
MBP will show if you have enough DHT to affect prone hair follicles due to the gene, when a man with a lot more testosterone/DHT (which biologically makes the "man") will not go bald, so where's the baldness being more manly theory coming from?
I would guess what's meant is to be a man you must withstand some kind of suffering/pain, whether physical or if it bothers you. A woman withstanding tough times doesn't make her a man, so the correct phrase should be "be strong" on the inside. If that's the case I can use similar logic and say, you'd be more of a "man" if you decide to halt/reverse your androgenic hair loss while causing yourself impotency. After all, hardly any person out there would rather be impotent than bald; you wouldn't, so kick your pain up a notch and be "a man".
The whole "be a man" remark when speaking of baldness, AFAIC is saying to put up with suffering. It is not telling you to me more of a man since male pattern baldness is simply nothing more than an undesirable gene (except for those who like the bald look) and is associated with disease and/or old age, that has nothing to do with how much one is biologically male.
