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The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by max76 »

adrianN wrote: post #16
throwaway8879 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do understand why people would feel insecure about baldness. Is it changing for the better though? Loads of "cool" bald people, think Vin Diesel etc. I still have a head full of hair and just turned 30. Not sure how I'd feel as I've had long hair all my life. I do feel that the volume isn't as high as it was in my early 20s.. I hope we make some progress in a cure either way.

There is medication that can prevent baldness. It has very rare, but very scary side-effects though. Eventually we might have something that fixes the genes responsible for baldness.

I don't feel like baldness is something that needs to be fixed. To me that sounds the same as saying the genes for blonde hair can be "fixed".

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by ahoy »

keiferski wrote: post #29
aiyodev wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's kind of interesting that, thirty years later, the CEOs of SpaceX and Blue Origin are bald men.

Elon Musk is bald?

He used to be. Like many rich men who are image-conscious he seems to have had a hair transplant procedure. Look up images of him from the late 90s, he was clearly balding.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by max76 »

keiferski wrote: post #29
aiyodev wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's kind of interesting that, thirty years later, the CEOs of SpaceX and Blue Origin are bald men.

Elon Musk is bald?

Defiantly thinning, but not bald[0].

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Elon_Mus...

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by ahoy »

throwaway8879 wrote: post #14
thih9 wrote: post #10

Loosely related video, Star Trek actor talks about being bald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqm_Iq8rFeg . I'm linking it to remind that perceiving baldness as something negative (here: a criterion for removal from a photo) can be a cause of distress and loss of confidence.

I do understand why people would feel insecure about baldness. Is it changing for the better though? Loads of "cool" bald people, think Vin Diesel etc. I still have a head full of hair and just turned 30. Not sure how I'd feel as I've had long hair all my life. I do feel that the volume isn't as high as it was in my early 20s.. I hope we make some progress in a cure either way.

I went bald very young (started shaving my head around age 20/21 because there just wasn't enough left).

It was a big hit to my confidence, especially as a teen. I also felt it prematurely "aged" me - I used to joke that I turned 28 on my 18th birthday.

It is nice that there are successful/attractive men who are bald to point to, but I was more often compared to Moby or Billy Corgan, not exactly sex symbols.

It all seems silly in retrospect but it felt very serious at that age. I'm so used to it now that I don't even think about it. It helps that I'm old enough that being bald is "age appropriate" and I stick out less than I did in college.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

ujhmi6 wrote: post #24
qrbLPHiKpiux wrote: post #13

George is by far my favorite sitcom character. His schizo-nuances and paranoia and hilarious! I can relate.

George Costanza is Jason Alexander + Larry David. I recommend you watch Curb Your Enthusiasm if you enjoyed Seinfeld.

I would also recommend Curb Your Enthusiasm, but there is a difference: Larry David is neurotic, but even in his fictional Curb Your Enthusiasm persona he is extremely wealthy and successful. That is a big difference from George Constanza, who combined being neurotic with constantly being adrift employment-wise and has little to recommend himself.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by michaelgrafl »

ahoy wrote: post #34
throwaway8879 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do understand why people would feel insecure about baldness. Is it changing for the better though? Loads of "cool" bald people, think Vin Diesel etc. I still have a head full of hair and just turned 30. Not sure how I'd feel as I've had long hair all my life. I do feel that the volume isn't as high as it was in my early 20s.. I hope we make some progress in a cure either way.

I went bald very young (started shaving my head around age 20/21 because there just wasn't enough left). It was a big hit to my confidence, especially as a teen. I also felt it prematurely "aged" me - I used to joke that I turned 28 on my 18th birthday. It is nice that there are successful/attractive men who are bald to point to, but I was more often compared to Moby or Billy Corgan, not exactly sex symbols. It all s…

I think it's worse when you're lacking confidence to begin with.

My hair started thinning when I was around 20 and kept thinning till I was about 30. Now it seems to be in a steady state of horse-shoe pattern.

I think it was worse for me when it began, as I started picturing all kind of terrible fates for me. I was obsessed with my hair density and wanted to kill myself. Now that I'm being bald and more mature and self-confident I'm not even sure I'd want to go back to having to do my hair again. And women don't seem to care at all. I'm still surprised by that, but the experiences I make every day make me wish I had lost all of my hair from one day to the next, just to get it over with.

Also, I don't want to romantisize going bald, but I think it rounded out my character.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by ujhmi6 »

Nannooskeeska wrote: post #28
ujhmi6 wrote: post #20

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Baldness is something negative, it makes you less attractive. Like being fat, or having big ears, or being short. And? Should we change that? How? Should women be with bald men out of pity even if they are not attracted to them? All of this sounds ridiculous.

> Baldness is something negative This is 100% subjective.

It's subjective, but given the frantic search of a cure for baldness, and the extents to which some people go to conceal it, I'd say it's pretty much unattractive.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by scythe »

max76 wrote: post #31
adrianN wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is medication that can prevent baldness. It has very rare, but very scary side-effects though. Eventually we might have something that fixes the genes responsible for baldness.

I don't feel like baldness is something that needs to be fixed. To me that sounds the same as saying the genes for blonde hair can be "fixed".

Blond hair is easy to fix. Hair dye has been around for years. Why shouldn’t bald people be afforded the same freedom, in an era where we literally fly through the air on titanium wings just to take vacations?

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by Insanity »

throwaway8879 wrote: post #17
qrbLPHiKpiux wrote: post #13

George is by far my favorite sitcom character. His schizo-nuances and paranoia and hilarious! I can relate.

Very much agreed. That character is so memorable that it's difficult for me to think of him playing a non-George role. I think the actor had trouble with post-Seinfeld roles too.

For me it's the same with characters from Friends. I can't see them in another role (except Jennifer, it's kind of odd to see her in other things but not as much as the others).

That being said, George is an absolutely great character and one of my favourites in sitcoms :) Just reading these comments makes me want to rewatch Seinfeld.

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