Compassion for Balding Men

I am down right angry about everyone targeting balding men as the butt of jokes. People do not understand that behind every bald man, is a feeling sensitive man and I wish that people will stop jabbing at us.

In this week’s issue of The New Yorker magazine (January 9, 2006; pages 43-48), there is an excellent article about hair loss titled “The Power of Hair”, by Burkhard Bilger. There is a great quote in the article from an anonymous source that says, “The man who isn’t bald never thinks about baldness. The man who is losing hair never thinks about anything else.” It is full of wonderful stories about balding looking backward in time, and looking forward to genetic cures, cloning, and some of the recent work done on an experimental basis. The article is worth reading, concluding from a patient who had a hair transplant, “Having hair on your head, you feel like you’re still young. You feel like you’re alive. Nobody wants to look old, man. Nobody want to look old.”