The Bald Chick Thread

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Originally Posted by baldy1138

I agree. There's nothing wrong with Sharon's ears. What I like about her look is that she has a clean and simple beauty. Not a lot of makeup or jewellery, just an extremely pretty face. And a smooth bald head, although looking at her portfolio, she doesn't look bad with a day or two of stubble either.

New post up on the blog today, although I think boo boo does check regularly.

Yeah I love her ears, I think they're cute.

But I can imagine someone picking on her for how they stick out. From my observation ears seem to be one of the things a woman is most self conscious about when shaving her head. "My ears will stick out" is the classic excuse for backing out.

The head shape, the neck and the ears are parts of a woman you rarely see without being obscured by hair, and I'm more interested in seeing these parts of a woman than seeing her hair. Because unlike hair, these are indisposable parts of who she is.

For ages and for whatever reason we make these parts of a woman out to be the most undesirable, but I think they are just as beautiful and distinctively feminine as any other part of the exterior female anatomy.

And that's what seperates acomos from "normal" men I guess. But as with how most people feel about their eccentricities, I feel like I'm the normal one and everyone else is weird.

Originally Posted by baldy1138

Great cartoon.

I do agree that there are a lot of trolls just posting crap comments on YouTube, and the racist ones particularly bother me. An audience, and sometimes the security that they hold a majority opinion, does indeed encourage people to show off, and the anonymity does weaken our normal inhibitions. In some ways, I'd even say there's a mob mentality at work in some of these posts.

Exactly, it's just like high school, only some of these people are supposed to be adults.

Some of it is clearly meant to hurt or to stir up trouble. But I do think the people who post some of the most frustrating comments are those who really do think they're making a fair comment. They might be reacting out of fear of something that challenges what they consider normal, or they might genuinely think they're being helpful by offering their criticism, or since the shaving is all in fun and these people can't possibly like it, that teasing is OK. The worst are the ones who sincerely think they're being nice with the "you were so pretty before, why would you do that?" comments. My mother is an old pro at that.

Yeah I get what you mean. I think it bothers me less when these hurtful comments are being made by men (because I've come to expect it) and more when they're being made by other women. Some women are quite vain and can be even more vicious critics of one's appearance because of how competitive they can get.

Self righteousness is even worse. I hate when people make comments like.

"If you're gonna shave your head, do it for charity, otherwise don't do it, it's a waste of hair".

This is f*cking bullsh*t.

It's her f*cking hair not yours, she can do with it whatever the hell she wants. Guys shave their heads all the time and nobody says stupid crap like this but when a women does it she has to have a reason. What? Doing it because she wants to? That's not a f*cking reason apparrently.

No apparrently women's hair is some great energy source that can't be wasted otherwise we could be facing some kind of crisis. Speaking of which there are so many damn charities we can contribute to, why is the one everyone cares so much about the one where we give wigs to bald women? Even those without a life threatening condition?

F*CK Darfur, we have to promote the idea that hair is the most important thing in a woman's life.

Here's another good one.

"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."

Even more bullsh*t. Someone explain to me, HOW is it insulting for women to choose this look?

If more women did it more people would have to accept it and that's empowerment. Women don't fall over backwards for hair because it's something they really need, it's something they need to not be called a freak.

This is why it's so devastating for women who lose their hair because they feel like that hair is a key element to making them attractive and without it they are ugly. When women shave their hair it's not out of disrespect, it's promoting the idea that women have the right to be bald.

Things that are considered ugly are usually things that just aren't the norm. What's considered a beautiful woman in our culture could be considered butt ugly by another. For some tribes in central africa, headshaving is the norm for women and they probably wonder what the big fuss is about hair in other cultures.

I understand the history of hair in culture and it's appeal. Headshaving is long associated with being under a system of control because of how it is common among soldiers, prisoners, slaves and religious converts and how it's used as a form of punishment. And thus long hair symbolized freedom.

But that kind of symbolism is very outdated, at least for women, especially in a society where hair is a multibillion dollar industry and the average woman spends thousands of dollars on hair care per year, tallying up to around $50,000 in her lifetime.

People today have gotten the idea that being entitled to your opinion means you're never wrong, and that there aren't times when maybe it's better to just be nice or even shut up altogether. The internet definitely makes that tendency far worse, with the anonymity and the audience, and with opportunities everywhere to comment on everything. People are invited to comment, they think their opinion always matters, and they really don't think too much about it. They're used to going around giving their opinion on everything. If you challenged some of these people directly, they wouldn't have any idea why you should be upset, and might very well consider you the bad guy and tell you to leave them alone. I've taken on people like this before, and I was the one causing trouble and trying to stifle free speech, even among some of the people who had been posting positive things.

Yeah that's why I don't bother most of the time but sometimes I will chip in my opinion which is pointless, nobody EVER comments on YouTube to have an actual serious discussion about something it's just trading insults most of the time.

People have this stupid idea that because it's the internet, you shouldn't take offense to what anyone says, ever. Like someone can say "Hitler is my hero, lets kill all the jews and ******s" without any hint of irony or sarcasm and if I take offense to that I will probably be told "relax guy chillax it's just the internet dude".

But what kind of excuse is that? If somebody said that in real life and in a public place, they would rightfully get the sh*t kicked out of them. Why should the internet be any different? If someone says that on a forum, it's still a public place in it's own way. If what people say in real life can be hurtful, then why would these kind of comments never be hurtful if it's on the internet? Just because you can't tell weither or not it's a joke?

If you're constantly saying things that offend me and are an insult to my values then I'm sorry (or rather I'm not sorry) for not finding it the least bit funny.

Some are are more rude than others, but I think most of those comments reflect ignorance in their content, and I think most are posted out of ignorance. They just don't get it.

And sadly any attempts at educating these people will be in vain.