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Re:The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos by scythe on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:57AM (#19463786)
Blond hair is easy to fix. Hair dye has been around for years. Why shouldn’t bald people be afforded the same freedom, in an era where we literally fly through the air on titanium wings just to take vacations?
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Re:The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos by max76 on Friday March 22, 2019 @12:30PM (#19464167)
It's the term "fix" that I don't like. It assumes the opposite state is broken.
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Re:The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos by scythe on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:57PM (#19466877)
A person with normal hair growth can choose to be bald. Someone with alopecia cannot choose the reverse. If baldness were to appear only by choice rather than as a result of low IGF-1 expression in hair follicles, I would imagine it would be more respectable, not less.
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