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Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by sumedh »

iJohnDoe wrote: post #74

It has nothing to do with being bald or short or tall or anything else. It has to do with other people needing to define their own self worth based on someone else’s traits. Someone is bald and you have tons of hair. Boom, you feel better about yourself. You are super tall so you must be better than anyone else. Don’t define your self worth based on other people. Base it on yourself and the life you are living.

Other people consider you to be a leader if you are tall, you will literally get treated better or get access to better opportunities if you are tall or beautiful. Short and ugly people don't enjoy the same advantage so it's not just feelings.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by dTal »

sumedh wrote: post #88
armchairhacker wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Being fat and lazy is under your control, being bald is not.

Is it really? Who would honestly freely choose that?

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by cvccvroomvroom »

The fundamental flaw with this platform is the belief that there is "unbiased" or "uncontroversial" writing. Also, it assumes all other actors are benevolent and not conspiring against those they disagree with or view as their enemies to brigade or otherwise game the platform to their advantage.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by dTal »

allenu wrote: post #65
anotherhue wrote: post #4

Up 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…

Seriously, there's a lot more diversity in advertising these days, but I don't think we'll ever get to the point where companies are open to diversity of attractiveness. (Or people pushing for it.) Can you imagine an Apple ad where you have average looking, or unattractive, people taking photos with the latest iPhone?

That's already happening and they call it "body positivity". It's mostly about overweight women (obesity rates are skyrocketing and women consume more fashion advertizing) but occasionally includes other forms of unattractiveness, like being old, saggy, or out of shape (rarely more than one at a time though).

This underwear ad is from 2015: https://hips.hearstapps.com/cos.h-cdn.co/assets/15/42/4000x2...:*

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by dTal »

mr_toad wrote: post #34
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…

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.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by throwaway98797 »

goodpoint wrote: post #85
throwaway98797 wrote: post #35

would 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

Maintaining a sixpack takes very significant effort.

agree, im no where near one myself but as a bald man it helps me know that there are impactful things I could work on vs lamenting what I cant control.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by imtringued »

dTal wrote: post #92
sumedh wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being fat and lazy is under your control, being bald is not.

Is it really? Who would honestly freely choose that?

Laziness aka lack of energy can actually be a result of diet. However I question that we choose to eat low quality food. It is plausible that the food industry is lowering the quality of their food to the point that it is actively harmful to humans.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by leereeves »

justinator wrote: post #70
leereeves wrote: post #36

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That story is about 36 hours old. Why would you assume there's manual manipulation to remove old stories from HN?

It's historically important, unlike most stories on HN which seem recently to be about navel gazing outdated hardware. But HN does HN - y'all are millionaires and I understand many topics of actual revelence to the majority don't have much affect on the nouveau bourgeoisie here who are primarily white, male, and straight. I guess I answered my own question. Good luck with being uncomfortable bald. Maybe it's not the…

> Good luck with being uncomfortable bald

I'm not bald, but I do enjoy exposing hypocrites whose empathy and concern for the disadvantaged is selective. Is it anything more than a rhetorical tactic to try to force your will on others?

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by greenthrow »

Threeve303 wrote: post #40
greenthrow wrote: post #16

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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 entire piece not only doesn't mention it but comes off as unaware of it entirely. Or if not unaware, just so self obsessed that it doesn't occur to you.

> Did you really create an account to say that? Well more power to ya

You could have easily seen this was not the case by going to my profile page. Again, you come off as so self absorbed that you don't bother looking up basic facts that are right at hand.

None of this (or my original comment) are meant as a slam. It is intended as constructive criticism.

Edit: After skimming your Twitter I now realize you are suffering from mental illness and I sincerely hope you get the help that you need. I apologize for throwing any criticism your way, clearly you are dealing with enough already.

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