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Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by Threeve303 »

greenthrow wrote: post #100
Threeve303 wrote: post #40

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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

> Or it is just a way to neutralize years of unnecessary negative energy. That is not an "or" to my comment. I realize that's what you were doing. But by being so narrowly focused on male baldness, it comes off as an incel rant because you come off as ignorant and narcissistic by not addressing the elephant in the room; female baldness. > Of course bald women have it worse. ...and? Again, the main issue is your entir…

I think your emotions about recent supreme court rulings are influencing your reactions to an offhand comment about male pattern baldness. You need to learn to separate issues. You will be much happier in life. Not every post is some clarion call for action and not everything needs to be twisted the way you have done here.

Thanks!

EDIT: Thank you for reading my Twitter page! Sadly it is not mental illness but my right to a trial and due process was stolen by a corrupt government. Read about punitative psychitary sometime. The East German Stasi would often use mental illness as an excuse to take away basic rights like due process. You will likely understand this one day if it continues. I do appreciate the personal insult based on a situation you know absolutely nothing about.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by robonerd »

dTal wrote: post #95
mr_toad wrote: post #34

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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.

Which reveals another interesting and concerning trope: the villain gets ahead by using their intelligence, and the hero solves the problem with brute force, possibly magically augmented. Very seldom is it the other way around.

Sounds like you want more detective stories, not superhero stories. Smart hero defeat the evil brute using his whit is a common sort of story if you know where to look, but Hollywood does seem to be on a superhero glut for the past 15-20 years. They produce a smothering amount of drivel, to the point where it's easy to forget that anything else exists.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by jimmux »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #32
Barrin92 wrote: post #22

I 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.

That can be a technical choice. Protagonists like these tend to be in games aiming for a more realistic art style, in which it's expensive to render convincing hair.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by metadat »

Retric wrote: post #63
3qz wrote: post #59

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> Social Justice for the Short Man The height wage gap is bigger than the gender wage gap. Short men are more oppressed than average women and everyone knows it

Height is correlated to health, intelligence, and good looks. So, no offense for short people, but it’s not clear how much of this is height specific bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence

Not sure why parent got teh downvotes, there is a small positive correlation. Must be some sensitive shorties around here with more than 500 uovotes.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by dTal »

robonerd wrote: post #102
dTal wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which reveals another interesting and concerning trope: the villain gets ahead by using their intelligence, and the hero solves the problem with brute force, possibly magically augmented. Very seldom is it the other way around.

Sounds like you want more detective stories, not superhero stories. Smart hero defeat the evil brute using his whit is a common sort of story if you know where to look, but Hollywood does seem to be on a superhero glut for the past 15-20 years. They produce a smothering amount of drivel, to the point where it's easy to forget that anything else exists.

It's not limited to superhero stories. Even the quintessential story detective, Sherlock Holmes, meets his match in a "criminal mastermind" whom he ultimately defeats with... his superior skill at wrestling. Admittedly that was some of Arthur Conan Doyle's laziest writing.
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