I believe the most common cure is shaving it all off, consoling yourself by swearing to get jacked to compensate, and then not doing that
:data-laughing: This is the way.
I have been shaving my head bald 1-2x a week for 10 years. I decided about a month ago that I am going to not do that anymore, though I am getting back into general physical fitness.
every balding guy is doing the shaved bald thing now, so I want to do some kind of thing along the Lenin/Marx/Ian Fidance/Curly Baldfro gradient.
edit: something that says, "I am clean and tidy, but I really don't give a shit anymore about any of this."
Yeah, I tried that but it's a surprising amount of work maintaining a shaved head. If you don't shave it regularly, like once every two or three days, the stubble that grows is going to be like drawing a receding hairline on your scalp, it looks absolutely busted.
Don't forget to wear a hat or put on sunscreen if you go the shave route
Get finasteride. It might make your dick soft for a couple months but it will keep hair on your head. Hair loss for male scalps is 99% to do with androgen sensitivity in your follicles, not stress. Companies like Keeps or Hims will give you a prescription pretty much for nothing (you have to have a LITTLE hair loss though) but it isn't cheap. Once you have one though, you might be able to convince a doctor to give you a prescription for Proscar, which is the same thing but for prostate problems, and that is like 10 times cheaper. Or you can just shave it and move on with your life. (Source: I am a vain person)
IMO, for balding people who identify as men, or who are cool with the aesthetic otherwise, I recommend the Picard maneuver when you start balding enough to care about it. That is, shave your head, or shave the balding parts and buzzcut the rest. It's part of aging gracefully.
Allegedly, when Patrick Stewart was auditioning for the role of Picard in TNG, he asked, "by the 24th century, won't they have cured male pattern baldness?". And Gene Roddenberry is said to have replied "by the 24th century, they won't care."
I loved a shaved head across all gender presentations. It’s a striking look
Testosterone blockers work reliably for this purpose :trans-specter:
Yeah, every time I see this it's hard not to reccomend estrogen as a bit :trans-undertale:
Baldness is actually X-linked, you don't inherit it from your dad. You want to be looking at any maternal uncles and great uncles to determine your fate.
I mean, with most things genetically dependent it's more complicated than just A or B, but androgen receptors are on the X chromosome. Baldness basically depends on a couple main things, the rate in which the body converts testosterone to DHT and the DHT affinity of certain binding sites in the follicle. People can still definitely experience androgenic alopecia to varying degrees regardless of that specific X-linked gene, but on balance the mother's brothers and mother's mother's brothers are pretty solid predictors.
I thought it was maternal grandparents rather than uncles? If it is indeed uncles, ty for the good news!
It's from the X chromosome, so speaking entirely in terms of sex, that means the mother had it and inherited it from their mother or father or both. If it was their mother, then uncles would have either a 50:50 or 100% chance of having it. If it was their father, then the father would definitely have it.
So look at maternal grandpa and uncles. Again, entirely by sex, not gender.
I get all the people ITT stressing body positivity and being okay with going bald (and I'm sure it's well intentioned), but it's also okay to want to avoid baldness and keep your hair.
Speaking personally, I started seeing hair loss in the past year or so and started on a Finastaride/Minoxidil regimen that's definitely stopped additional loss and looks like it's been slowly building back up on the hairline and crown. I'm pretty young and I know I won't keep my hair forever, but right now I think my hair is cool and I like the way it looks, so I'm willing to spend a little and invest some time into keeping it around for now.
It's your body and at the end of the day how you feel about it is the most important thing, not what other people think about it. It's good to be aware of societal stigmas and to decouple cosmetic appearance from intrinsic worth, but that shouldn't get in the way of what feels good for you.
yeah, this, being bald is cool if you are okay with it but it's also cool if you want to keep it. Whatever keeps you at peace with ur body, it's up to you
Woke up from a bad day and I’m getting a sensible chuckle from the “just become female” answers. Love you trans comrades. :trans-heart:
What I have learned in this thread:
- Baldness is cool, actually
- MtF HRT is the primary method of hair loss prevention
- I still need to watch Star Trek
- Bullying works
- If all else fails: finasteride, minoxidil, and nizoral
Combovers are universally ridiculed, so i'll go with that.
You inherit the gene for male pattern baldness from your mother, so you should look at your mother's brothers, not your father, if you want to predict what you are going to look like.
My best advice is to live with it and blue stress about it. Pattern baldness is completely normal in adult men and it doesn't make you ugly or not sexy or anything. You can take all sorts of supplements and whatnot, but you're just throwing money at staving off the inevitable. Getting hair transplants is a way forward for some but it will cost you a small fortune.
Don't be afraid, bald guys can be sexy and awesome:
:back-to-me: :lenin-pensive: :thinkin-lenin:
You inherit the gene for male pattern baldness from your mother, so you should look at your mother’s brothers, not your father, if you want to predict what you are going to look like.
False. My mom's brother was balding well before he was my age, and I have a full head of hair, like my father and his father at my age (and also now, actually). I don't pretend to know what the actual genetics of male pattern baldness are, but my family is pretty much a perfect falsification of the popular myth that it's purely derived from your mother's family (my mother's father and uncle also went bald very early).
The claim is just that the gene for this is found on the X chromosome which, if you're an XY male, you by definition got from your mom. That doesn't mean that you're guaranteed to get the gene, though, since your mom has two X chromosomes, of which you only get one (plus recombination and mutation and all that jazz). I'm not a biologist and I don't know the details of heritability for baldness (though I'd be mildly surprised if this were a trait controlled by a single gene in the first place), but "you get it from your mother's side" and "my mother's side is mostly bald and I'm not" aren't incompatible.
That may have been the original claim, but as you say, it's mildly ridiculous to think such a complex phenomenon is the result of a single gene. And that claim has since morphed into "if your mother's father is bald then you will be bald" (or some variation of that) in the popular understanding, which my anecdote does refute.
Oh, sure (and I wasn't really arguing with you--just expanding on what you said). Like I said, this isn't my area of expertise so I don't know the details of the heritability here, but I'd be more than a little surprised if it were something as simple as (say) eye color. Very, very few phenotypic traits are straightforward in that high school textbook Punnet Square way.
My maternal grandfather was totally bald by the time he was 25, and I also still have no sign of going bald at nearly 40. Genetics is complicated.
There's environmental factors as well and/or just luck. My dad went completely bald in his late 20s, and all the men in his family (brothers, father, even his sister's son) had full heads of hair into their 50s and 60s.
It's a lot cheaper to make peace with your body, there's nothing wrong with going bald and by letting yourself be bald you're doing your small part to fight back against a culture that insists you need to constantly asymptotically approach some ideal of beauty and if you can't you should feel bad. You also won't be giving money to companies who profit off men feeling they are inadequate for having a totally normal hairline.
It's all bullshit, age with dignity by telling those cultural forces to go fuck themselves.
Or get a hat if you truly cannot bear it.
I remember listening to a podcast back when breaking bad was on and there was a remark like "these are the salad days for bald men".
You just gotta embrace it and shave it. Shaved head looks ok, the donut doesn't unless you're :picard-pointing:
I've been balding since 20 or so, the best choice I made was to say fuck it and shave it all off.
letting yourself be bald you’re doing your small part to fight back against a culture that insists you need to constantly asymptotically approach some ideal of beauty and if you can’t you should feel bad.
Men have been going bald for about a million years and we still have the culture described.
Annoyed by everyone saying that being bald is just fine bruh. You may perceive it that way, but people as a whole do not. Baldness is generally considered unattractive.
most relevant studies agree that bald or balding men are perceived as less physically attractive ( Cash, 1990 ; Hellström & Telke, 1994 ; Mannes, 2013 ; Moerman, 1988 ; Muscarella & Cunningham, 1996 ; Roll & Verinis, 1971 ; but see also Butler, Pryor, & Grieder , 1998; Sigelman, Dawson, Nitz, & Whicker, 1990 ; Wogalter & Hosie, 1991 )
what kind of pervert wants to be considered attractive?
Yeah, why would anyone want to be attractive? You risk a visit from :volcel-judge:
Self-esteem encouragement is good, but I agree that depending on the situation advice to actively stop a problem might be preferred.
I did notice tho that most of these are from the 90s (Tho one is from a bit under a decade ago in 2013), perhaps views on at least full-on baldness (Maybe not on balding men unfortunately) have softened since? I feel like "balding man trying to cover it up" isn't as used of a gag in pop culture as it once was at least, if that means anything.
That's probably true of most people right now but I'm sure this isn't an innate part of biological reality for humans, eg different cultures at different times will surely have different ideas about attractive hairstyles or lackthereof.
I find it hard to believe a bald/balding guy in the Soviet Union at the height of Lenin's cult of personality wouldn't benefit at least partially from that.
Also this is a weird artifact of Russian culture if anyone cares: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bald–hairy
I mean try to worry less about what vain people think then? baldness is totally natural. Anyone who judges another negatively over baldness is being an unrealistic asshole.
