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Originally Posted by boo boo
"There are woman dying of cancer who are emotionally crushed by the loss of their hair, how disrespectful it is that women want to make themselves look like this when they have beautiful hair that some women would die for. It's an insult to them."
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And there are kids starving in Africa who would be delighted with the tuna casserole you refuse to eat. That's a strange bit of reasoning when it applies to food. I have no idea how it's supposed to apply to hair.
Seems to me that women are crushed by the loss of their hair because they've been taught to put a ridiculous degree of importance on it, and because bald women aren't something you typically see. If more women opted to be bald by choice, it should logically make these women feel less self-conscious about their own appearance.
Not sure if that applies to people shaving their heads in support of someone who's lost her hair. The focus on the hair loss and the "we're all in this together" attitude might actually be kind of irritating. But women shaving their heads for their own reasons would only serve to make baldness a more accepted look for a woman. What could be more respectful than that?
I can still remember about ten years ago or so, I attended an event where there was an old guy with alopecia universalis. He could tell that I shaved my head, and he made a point of talking to me. He was interested in my choosing baldness, and actually quite happy that it was becoming a common hairstyle. He wasn't bitching about guys who don't know what they've got throwing it away in a travesty of his affliction. He thought it was cool. Sure, this was a man, but I think it could have been the reaction of anyone in that situation.
Suggesting that so many women would "die for hair like that" and moaning about such a tragic waste... I just can't get over how lame and pathetic that is.
Actually, thinking about talking to that guy, I remembered how much fun it is to run into other people who are bald for one reason or another - by choice, naturally, or for some reason. There's a definite feeling of kinship on some level. I once met a Tibetan Lama, who was visiting the area where I lived. When we were introduced, he took immediate note of my shaved head, and we had a little discussion about doing it for style vs. doing it for religion, maintenance techniques, and his rather amusing lament that with local health regulations, he couldn't get a proper head shave anywhere. Had to settle for clippers, poor guy. Even funnier, this monk in his flowing robes, shaved head and totally serene demeanor wanted to have his picture taken with
me.