215
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
215 points (100.0% liked)
Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related
3432 readers
163 users here now
Health: physical and mental, individual and public.
Discussions, issues, resources, news, everything.
See the pinned post for a long list of other communities dedicated to health or specific diagnoses. The list is continuously updated.
Nothing here shall be taken as medical or any other kind of professional advice.
Commercial advertising is considered spam and not allowed. If you're not sure, contact mods to ask beforehand.
Linked videos without original description context by OP to initiate healthy, constructive discussions will be removed.
Regular rules of lemmy.world apply. Be civil.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
On the one hand, if surgery and/or various enhancements are an effective tool to give someone more confidence, and it's not really directly hurting anybody else, then my opinion is go for it.
To me, shorter men are hot, the size of your penis is pretty much irrelevant (bigger is not always better), and bald/balding/shaved heads are the bees knees. I mention the dick and the head o' hair because those are, in my experience, two other areas where men are commonly insecure.
Obviously I admit that as a gay man, my view on things may be different than that of a typical heterosexual woman. But overall, I really wish guys didn't feel the need to obsess over things like their height.
I don't have a link right now, and probably won't bother to go looking, but I was scrolling through posts a few days ago and saw one with a guy, who I would consider good looking, mentioned his height and weight. I clicked into the comments, and literally like the second most upvoted one in there referred to him as short. He was 5 feet 9 inches (a bit over 175 cm). Granted, it wasn't a derogatory comment if I recall correctly, but just the fact that it referred to a very average height as short really caught my attention. Now imagine if the guy was sensitive about his height and what that might do to his confidence.
Balding is fine, but to me, shaved head with a beard is kinda gross. I’d prefer the Homer Simpson hairdo to the weird hairless rat with a beard combination.
Bezos may have ruined shaved heads for me.
What about Patrick Stewart?
That ain't shaved
I think you might be confusing the word "shaved" with some other word.
"Balding is fine, but to me, shaved head with a beard is kinda gross"
PStew doesn't shave his head. It's all baldness baby
No one escapes the horse shoe unless they have alopecia (shout out to Jordan Walsh, we'll miss ya buddy!)
Patrick Stewart most definitely shaves his head and has since I think he was 19(?) he talks about it in his memoir.
19 is when he was bald as if you're talking make it so. He started losing it at 17.
I'm not trying to sound rude, but I'm coming back to this conversation a few days later and am wondering what you are trying to argue. Like dudes don't just look up and see themselves as dr.phil. it's a slow process. You first start losing hair and at some point it comes to "am I really going to be the guy with a comb over‽". The hairloss is gradual. It's up to you to make the decision. Patrick Stewart said he first started noticing it when he was seventeen, and decided he wasn't doing the comb over by nineteen.
What is it you're arguing?
If you think Patrick's hair has retracted all over his head at the same rate, then you don't know how hair works.
Just look at the picture above. It is clean shaven.
Balding means you have high testosterone. 💪
I'd rather have estrogen, but that's just me. Being a man is icky, and I say that as someone who builds wind turbines in the ocean.