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This might sound ridiculous, but bear with me for a moment...
Male pattern baldness is caused at least partly by testosterone, and I've heard that men who 'suffer' from this have more testosterone or something. I'm not sure if that's true, however, perhaps baldness is a sign of 'hyper-maleness' as is say a beard...
Which got me thinking, is there actually something socially significant about the act of shaving one's hair off/shaving one's head?
I mean, OF COURSE, men do it for all kinds of reasons, but I wonder if some do it to somehow signify their maleness. Just as long hair is associated with femininity, a man who feels more 'macho' or masculine might shave to better fit his personality. In prison with buzz-cuts/crew-cuts or the military, there's also the association with baldness with masculinity and toughness.
Of course a lot of the tough action hero stereotypes, like Vin Diesel or Bruce Willis are bald or almost so...then again you have the likes of Michael Stipe to counteract them, haha.
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No, they do it because then it looks like they did it on purpose, rather than admitting they have a bald top with a little hair around the edges. I would attribute it to insecurity and lack of self-esteem.
Not every that loses their hair loses it evenly. I have seen people with the original hairline on one side of the front and 4 inches back on the other. There is only so much you can do with that.
For quite a number of years now athletes have also been shaving their heads. This has added to the popularity of the style and now it is a pretty well accepted and fairly common thing. In the old days, if men felt uncomfortable because they were going bald, there weren't many options except to wear a wig to hide the fact if it bothered them enough.
Nowadays, they can shave their heads and not feel self-conscious and at the same time look stylish. I see a lot of men with the bald look at my gym.
I buzz my head because I'm too cheap to pay for a haircut every couple of months and I'm too lazy to brush it in the morning.
Usually I'll let it grow back for 4-6 months then buzz it again. Doe this mean I have a complex or something?
Yeah - I'm with Chango. I buzz then shave my head about once every 2 or 3 months. Sometimes I keep it shaved for a year or two, sometimes I just let it grow back and repeat. For years, I kept my hair long but one hot day I'd had enough and took it all off. The freedom of never having to worry about how my hair looks or needing a hair cut is a beautiful thing.
I don't do it because I'm too cheap or to be more "macho", I don't have thinning hair either. I do it because it feels good and gives me one less thing to worry about.........of course as I've heard people say: "You've gotta have the head for it"
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