- Reaction score
- 6,504
2015 Golf Masters Champion, 22-year old Jordan Spieth:
2016 Golf Masters Champion, 28-year old Danny Willett:
Very similar hair lines and diffuse thinning, one man early 20's, one man late 20's, I encourage you all to do a little poking about on google to see the reaction to their similarly balding hair. But I'll help...
Google Image search Spieth: the very first "related search" is "Jordan Spieth hair"
For Willett in Image Search? Hair doesn't show up as a related search out of several related terms. And actually, when you google "Danny Willet hair" on image search, you even get a lot of pictures of Spieth!
Both names followed by "hair" in google general search "All":
Spieth- countless sports articles and even generally mainstream entertainment articles discussing his baldness, a twitter page devoted to his receding hair line, Larry David baldshaming him and his reaction to this- as they actually f*****g asked him about it in an interview.
Willett: an article from a baldness website, which happens if you google any semi-famous person followed by "hair" or "bald", the rest are mere mentions of hair in tweets from random civilians, some not even relating to baldness. And the 4th result for "Danny Willett hair"? An article about Jordan Spieth's recession.
I just think this perfectly illustrates the world of difference a decade (or even close to half a decade, 6 years) can make when it comes to baldness, and the perception society has of a person who is more mature with a hairline that is somewhat appropriate to that age. Still not pretty, still unfortunate, but not quite a deformity, because it's seen as part of the ageing process.
It may dent your looks sure, but it doesn't obliterate your identity into being inferior and measly.
And the weirdest thing? Facially Willett somewhat meets Spieth in terms of age, Spieth is only somewhat baby-faced in his early 20's, you wouldn't be surprised if slightly weathered Willett was only 2 or 3 years older. So why is this amazing?
People react this way to a young balding man, not just because of how he looks, but because they know his age.
It's not even about aesthetics here, if he was 28 and looked the exact same, he'd get the same muted response to his thinning that Danny Willett gets, that's what's incredible.
This is not to attack people who feel just as sh*t about their hair loss as anyone younger, but to remind us that if you can survive to a certain age while still maintaining somewhat of a hair line and even thinning hair, that is a world of difference than balding young, or being NW4 when 30.
No doubt you look worse, but your status is not destroyed, you are seen as ageing and follically unlucky, with younger guys they don't even get the sympathy of being seen as "unlucky"- nobody even cares.
2016 Golf Masters Champion, 28-year old Danny Willett:
Very similar hair lines and diffuse thinning, one man early 20's, one man late 20's, I encourage you all to do a little poking about on google to see the reaction to their similarly balding hair. But I'll help...
Google Image search Spieth: the very first "related search" is "Jordan Spieth hair"
For Willett in Image Search? Hair doesn't show up as a related search out of several related terms. And actually, when you google "Danny Willet hair" on image search, you even get a lot of pictures of Spieth!
Both names followed by "hair" in google general search "All":
Spieth- countless sports articles and even generally mainstream entertainment articles discussing his baldness, a twitter page devoted to his receding hair line, Larry David baldshaming him and his reaction to this- as they actually f*****g asked him about it in an interview.
Willett: an article from a baldness website, which happens if you google any semi-famous person followed by "hair" or "bald", the rest are mere mentions of hair in tweets from random civilians, some not even relating to baldness. And the 4th result for "Danny Willett hair"? An article about Jordan Spieth's recession.
I just think this perfectly illustrates the world of difference a decade (or even close to half a decade, 6 years) can make when it comes to baldness, and the perception society has of a person who is more mature with a hairline that is somewhat appropriate to that age. Still not pretty, still unfortunate, but not quite a deformity, because it's seen as part of the ageing process.
It may dent your looks sure, but it doesn't obliterate your identity into being inferior and measly.
And the weirdest thing? Facially Willett somewhat meets Spieth in terms of age, Spieth is only somewhat baby-faced in his early 20's, you wouldn't be surprised if slightly weathered Willett was only 2 or 3 years older. So why is this amazing?
People react this way to a young balding man, not just because of how he looks, but because they know his age.
It's not even about aesthetics here, if he was 28 and looked the exact same, he'd get the same muted response to his thinning that Danny Willett gets, that's what's incredible.
This is not to attack people who feel just as sh*t about their hair loss as anyone younger, but to remind us that if you can survive to a certain age while still maintaining somewhat of a hair line and even thinning hair, that is a world of difference than balding young, or being NW4 when 30.
No doubt you look worse, but your status is not destroyed, you are seen as ageing and follically unlucky, with younger guys they don't even get the sympathy of being seen as "unlucky"- nobody even cares.
