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Doesn't look deleted, or do you mean a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258
Social justice for the bald man
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#32I know the post is satire but using baldness as a feature of villains in movies is surprisingly common still. I noticed it watching Dune recently given that the Harkonnens were not even bald (or specifically entirely hairless) in the books or the 1984 movie. I don't think anyone's arguing that it's the worst injustice anyone faces but it is surprisingly often used as a visual shorthand for people lacking humanity, wh…
Another theme I’ve seen is that games with a bad, brutish, or scary guy as a protagonist tend to have him be bald.
My sample size is too small (just my own limited gaming experience) though so this might not be true if I collected data properly.
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#33Re: Social justice for the bald man
#34I know the post is satire but using baldness as a feature of villains in movies is surprisingly common still. I noticed it watching Dune recently given that the Harkonnens were not even bald (or specifically entirely hairless) in the books or the 1984 movie. I don't think anyone's arguing that it's the worst injustice anyone faces but it is surprisingly often used as a visual shorthand for people lacking humanity, wh…
A lot of cartoon villains are ‘masterminds’ and the cartoon image of a scientist or academic is also often an middle aged or older bald man. I’m not sure if hair loss is actually more common among scientists, or if it’s just correlated with age.
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#35would you rather have your hair back or have a six pack
one is within your control the other is not.
for the vast vast majority of people a six pack will improve their standing in society more than hair
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't look deleted, or do you mean a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258
Been removed from the Front Page despite the total number of points, which is pretty odd. That's manual manipulation to get that to happen, I would assume.
That story is about 36 hours old. Why would you assume there's manual manipulation to remove old stories from HN?
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#37Up next: Social Justice for the Short Man, for those with a 'country' accent, for the glasses wearers (in the off-seasons for nerdiness), the straight-up unattractive. They are all real, the question we must contend with is: Are all externally imposed, negatively perceived features, protected from measurement/discrimination? What about age? Can you discriminate towards youthfulness if you will, in your time, become o…
Then we have social justice for fat people, dumb people, lazy people, people with anger problems, people with personality disorders, criminals, and so on. Where do we draw the line? I argue we don't draw the line at all. Rather, we treat everyone with compassion and respect, and find / judge everyone on their true strengths and weaknesses (vs. those characteristic of whatever group they belong to). Discrimination is…
> There's also the practical situation where you can't save everyone. In that case unfortunately I think whatever disadvantaged or stereotyped groups aren't protected by the current society are out of luck.
If people in the past had felt that way, there would be no protected groups. Society only moves forward because of people who believe they can save disadvantaged or stereotyped groups that aren't already protected.
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#38I know the post is satire but using baldness as a feature of villains in movies is surprisingly common still. I noticed it watching Dune recently given that the Harkonnens were not even bald (or specifically entirely hairless) in the books or the 1984 movie. I don't think anyone's arguing that it's the worst injustice anyone faces but it is surprisingly often used as a visual shorthand for people lacking humanity, wh…
A lot of cartoon villains are ‘masterminds’ and the cartoon image of a scientist or academic is also often an middle aged or older bald man. I’m not sure if hair loss is actually more common among scientists, or if it’s just correlated with age.
I think masterminds are often bald with large heads to suggest exceptional intelligence. Baldness helps show that their head really is big, not just their hairstyle.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Like Patrick Stewart being replaced by a dude that has to shave his head to be Professor X What is the reference here? In Multiverse of Madness (spoiler) Patrick Stewart plays Charles Xavier. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9419884/fullcredits > Patrick Stewart
A cursory Google ("who replaced Patrick Stewart as Professor X") shows that James McAvoy portrayed the character from 2011-2019, sharing some overlap with Stewart (2000-2017 and 2022).
Yes, that is the one
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#40This was going to be part of a bad stand up comedy routine I am never going to do. Bald is the last label and category that hasn't had its time to shine. Even actors who have hair take media roles that bald men traditionally have. Like Patrick Stewart being replaced by a dude that has to shave his head to be Professor X. And there is a ton of subtle bald hate in society even to the point of influencing career advance…
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Or it is just a way to neutralize years of unnecessary negative energy. Of course bald women have it worse. Did you really create an account to say that? Well more power to ya