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Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by girvo on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:38AM (#20532848)
Right; if I started going bald, I’d want a “cure” or treatment — I have a weirdly shaped head and it genuinely looks terrible with short cropped (or shaved) hair unfortunately! It doesn’t work for everyone, sadly.
Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by speedplane on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:51AM (#20532886)
> if I started going bald, I’d want a “cure” or treatment

If I started going bald, I'd do anything I could to stop it. I'm not particularly vain, so I don't think this desire really comes from vanity, it's more a stubbornness to accept aging and eventually death.

Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by toyg on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:48AM (#20532873)
Same - I genuinely despise everything that has to do with hair maintenance, but I fully shaved once and I looked terrible.

I don’t particularly care for baldness (my dating days are likely over), but shaving is just not a magic solution for everyone.

Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 26, 2019 @07:01AM (#20533852)
>"I fully shaved once and I looked terrible." //

So? Why is the aesthetics important to you? If it's functional and useful but looks ugly, then I consider it a mature and developed response to choose that nonetheless.

Your, and others, preference for appearance doesn't need to be weighed into your decision, unless you wish it too.

Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by girvo on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:17AM (#20534154)
> Why is the aesthetics important to you?

Because I enjoy looking good, where looking good is defined by my own aesthetics. You are not the arbiter on what I get to spend my limited amount of "focus" credits on in life, and I find your insinuation that my caring about my appearance and style is "immature" a little offensive.

Your life is not my life. Pretty straightforward.

Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 26, 2019 @10:22AM (#20534994)
I think you've misunderstood. I don't care about what you look like. The point is _you_ have a choice what weight you give it, you can choose to care less or more about it (at some level).

The reason to answer the "so?" question is to understand it for yourself, your answer doesn't matter to me in the slightest.

> find your insinuation that my caring about my appearance and style is "immature" a little offensive. //

I don't think it's immature to care about one's appearance; I do think it takes a particular development of character - that usually comes from maturity - to feel a desire to conform one's appearance to a particular pattern but look beyond that, and learn to accept it.

Along with that I'd note that appearance is often all-consuming for teenagers, and less important for most people as they age (things like functionality and longevity, say, become higher priorities than the simple look of a thing).

All that said, I'm not sure why you're so hostile to my opinion: as you say your life is not mine. If you're content in that then that's showing just the same sort of developed, mature, thinking.

[TL;DR] So, I merely suggest you answer for yourself why "I enjoy looking good" and _consciously_ decide on the weighting that has in sartorial and other aesthetic decisions.

Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by girvo on Friday July 26, 2019 @01:04PM (#20536302)
>[TL;DR] So, I merely suggest you answer for yourself why "I enjoy looking good" and _consciously_ decide on the weighting that has in sartorial and other aesthetic decisions.

Which, I have. It's the fact that your original comment has unneeded swipes at complete strangers maturity for expression their opinions and worries regarding what they find attractive in themselves that I have issues with. If you can't see why one could read your messages in that matter, then I'm not sure how else to explain it I'm afraid.

[TL;DR] Being bald looks gross on me. I don't like that, because I like looking nice. This isn't a sign of immaturity, as much as you keep repeating it as it that'll make it true.

Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by pbhjpbhj on Saturday July 27, 2019 @12:42PM (#20542790)
>your original comment has unneeded swipes //

If you think I've claimed someone is immature then your reading comprehension or logical model is lacking (now you have something I actually said that you can feel offended about).

If my cup of tea isn't hot then you presumably assume it has ice in it.

Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by dwild on Friday July 26, 2019 @09:45AM (#20534727)
> So? Why is the aesthetics important to you? If it's functional and useful but looks ugly, then I consider it a mature and developed response to choose that nonetheless.

Then why don't you shave? Actually, why do you take care of your appearance at all?

I'm pretty sure that you do a minimum of works on your appearance. The same reasons you do apply to people balding.

Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:05PM (#20535807)
Are you interested in my response personally?

Ask yourself those questions, that's my point.

Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by dwild on Friday July 26, 2019 @01:40PM (#20536593)
> Are you interested in my response personally?

I'm actually not interested in your response, I'm interested in how you justify your previous comment while still not being able to apply it yourself.

Your appearance is important, even if you don't want it to be true. You answering these questions may make you realize how appearance is important. Anyone else answering for you won't change how you think.

Re:A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner by notfromhere on Friday July 26, 2019 @09:44AM (#20534720)
people want to look attractive. you're not 'above it all' for discounting that