theShade said:
1. It's purely cosmetic, it's not a disability or physical/mental disadvantage.
2. It's common, even amongst younger ages.
3. It's part of the natural aging process, men are expected to go bald at some point.
4. Plenty of men aren't good looking even with hair. Hairloss doesn't neccesserily mean that you would look worse than them, or that you won't be good looking even without hair.
5. We're men not women, we're expected not to be vain and not be crybabies about our appearance. The idea of a man who is terrified over losing his hair and tries in desperation to stop it is often ridiculed and used in humour for good reason.
1) like it or not people are superficial, if this wasn't the case the ipod wouldn't be the best selling mp3 player but would of been outsold by it's technologically superior rivals and at a young age it does have a lot of social connotations
also looks plays a large part in self-esteem if you don't feel good about looking good (therefore feeling bad about looking bad)
2) not really i don't know anyone else (apart form my dad) who had a receding hairline at 18 , i am 21 now and i can say say statistics states there are more people who fall into the category of Ronald Reagan and nelson Mandela (not losing any hair despite an old age)
3i) people would agree if someone was 40 but 20 is the age where people should feel young, lively, vein and feeling like they are going to be young forever, it's probably the worst thing that could happen to someone that age, and i am pretty sure the vast majority of the people here were unaware that it was even possible for a 20 year old to even have a receding hairline
3ii) just because it's "natural" it doesn't suddenly mean it's a acceptable thing to happen, saying something is natural is merely putting your head in the sand, some of man's best achievements is in the process of defeating nature
4) doesn't really add to your plus points unless your're vin diesel. apart from hair loss most of the other problems are solvable to a satisfactory level
5) i find it a despicable notion that "men have to be men" not only it's a stereotype but it's obliging men to follow that stereotype and this very comment actually still raises this confusion i have about this.....WHY ARE YOU HERE if haiross is such a non-problem to you?
you are quite obviously a nw2 probably in their early 30's and it would be ridiculous to expect you to view hairloss in the same way as it is viewed by a nw4 in their early 20's