Male pattern baldness.

[Toasty]

I will go bald. No question about it. Male baldness has occured, consistently and thoroughly, in ALL men on both my mother and my father's side.

It doesn't bother me right now, and I don't suspect it will later. It's not like it's odd to have thinning hair, or to have no hair at all, for men in their old age.

I will become concerned about it when it is something worth being concerned about.

 

[sween32]

there's nothing wrong with going bald. especially if your short. women love short, bald guys.

they also like grey hair. makes you look distinguished and charming.

 

[Ohwell]

Originally posted by nixon
I will not go bald.

...without a fight. Genetics alone doesn't determine wether you will go bald or not.

 

[Ancient Grudge]

yes you will

 

[nixon]

Originally posted by Ohwell


...without a fight. Genetics alone doesn't determine wether you will go bald or not.

Damn right!

I have my glue...

 

[Padma]

I just look at it this way:

God made only so many perfect heads. The rest, He covered with hair.

 

[cgannon64]

I'll never go bald, unless I get struck by a freak disease. You should see my grandpa - he's 80+ and he still has multiple inches of hair...

 

[napoleon526]

Every male on both sides of my family has been bald.

But if I do go bald, I won't worry about it. Anyone who likes me less because I'm missing some hair doesn't sound like a person who i'd like to be around anyway.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

Well it is pretty split in my familly on both my mother and fathers side, a few are bald and a few aren't. My dad isn't, so I hope I'll follow him.

 

[Siegmund]

Put me down for "let it happen, who cares."

The "women prefer less hair" thing does seem to be a bit regional. In Alaska something over 1/3 of the men have beards and we don't have that much trouble getting women - well, no more trouble than hairless men in Alaska do anyway! - but when I go down south on trips I am very aware of the women being less accepting of it and of a LOT fewer men with facial hair.

Hair elsewhere on the body, is, well, not something the average woman will know about the first time she sees me, is it..hehe

 

[bobgote]

I have lots of hair on my head, and not much in the way of body hair. i also have a widow's peak thing so apparently that's also a good sign. If i went bald, i would probably wear a variety of wacky hats.

 

[gr8ful wes]

The bald man gets more head.

I'll just probably wear a hat if I do anything at all.

 

[Darkness]

I think I'll just cut my hair very short...
But considering the genes in my family that probably won't come to pass within the next 50 years...

 

[BirraImperial]

Meh, I know my hair is thinning already, have accepted it for years, so now I shave it off almost completely.

Holy molly, this thread is over 11 years old....

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[Tee Kay]

I actually look at the thread OP and did a double take. "Mojotronica? I only knew him from some very ancient thread"

 

[duckstab]

Honestly I don't think I have much to worry about. I'm in my early 50s and though it's receded a bit it still comes over my forehead even though I wear it pretty short. If it's any indication of genetics, my brother, who is 12 years my senior, still has all his hair.

However, should I eventually find myself in that boat, my plan is to just shave myself bald. I think I'd look weird with just a ring of hair around the temples, and I can't see myself attempting to disguise the condition. For reference, I have a lot of gray and haven't done anything to cover it up, so I imagine I'd deal with baldness in much the same way.

 

[classical_hero]

Thankfully baldness comes from the mothers side and that means I will never go bald. Me father is partially bald and he doe s a comb-over. Frankly it looks terrible and if I were to go bald I would just accept the fact and move on.

 

[luiz]

So many posters I miss posted on this thread

Curiously, when this thread was first posted 11 years ago I was quite worried I would go bald. Baldness is pretty common on dad's side of the family(though my dad isn't), and some of my uncles on my mother's side also lost hair. In particular, my paternal grandfather was entirely bald, and some his sons lost most of their hair during their early 20's. But now I'm nearly 30 and still have a full head of hair, which I'll take as a sign from divine providence that I'll never lose it.

 

[Borachio]

Yeah.

Shaving the head is an obvious thing to do.

The trouble with that is you have to have the right-shaped skull. (Luckily I do - or at least not totally the wrong-shaped skull - if I ever go bald - and I haven't yet, though it's thinner right on the top than it used to be. Otherwise I'd wear a hat.)

I do know someone with a "skullet". (What an excellent word! I've never heard of that before.) And he looks dreadful. With a for-goodness-sake-cut-it-off pony tail, to boot.

I feel quite sorry for elderly women with thinning hair, though.

And yet.. and yet... of all the problems that a person can have, going bald must be one of the least bothersome.

And what about chonmage?

Baldness should be a sign of maturity and wisdom, rather than decrepitude. No?

 

[luiz]

And yet.. and yet... of all the problems that a person can have, going bald must be one of the least bothersome.

People are more sensitive about their looks than about most things, man. And losing your hair is a dramatic visual change. And as you said some people just have the "wrong shaped skull" and look horrible with a shaved head. It may be silly, but I totally understand being very disturbed by it.