Discussions About Being Bald > Advantages and Disadvantages to being Bald
Appearance???
Noner:
I know not everyone here wears a suit to work, but I always get a different reaction when I wear one. With my shaved head they look at me like I'm in secret service. Happen when anyone else wears suits?
Tyler:
--- Quote from: Noner on December 14, 2006, 09:11:20 AM ---I know not everyone here wears a suit to work, but I always get a different reaction when I wear one. With my shaved head they look at me like I'm in secret service. Happen when anyone else wears suits?
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Yeah, especially if I wear my black suit. The first Christmas party I went to bald I was wearing a black suit, white collard shirt, no tie. A couple people accused me of dressing like the guy on Transporter. Luckily I don't have to wear a suit very often, but I will be wearing one tonight.
An interesting story along the lines of your comment. I was in NYC during UN week and was staying at the Roosevelt along with a couple of foreign dignitaries. The place was crawling with secret service and other security folk. They would stop everyone comiing in the door to search them and their bags to make sure there weren't any weapons on them. Though, I would never get stopped; they'd just wave me through. I was talking to one of the main secret service guys a couple days later and it turns out they thought I was one of the undercover guys 8). I guess they thought this because I was always talking to hotel security, but I was just friends with the guys after practically living in the hotel for 4 months. This happens to be the same week I had my head shaved at the Art of Shaving barbershop.
chadoweasel:
I think it actually gives people one LESS thing to make assumptions on, and that is the thing that bothers some people. They find it harder to put you in a stereotype. I mean...all shapes, sizes, ages, and colors of people can can go with the bald head. Think of all the hair looks that actually DO get you stereotyped: Mullets, comb-overs, mohawks, long, short, parted in the middle, parted on the side, straight, curly, clean, neat, messy, greasy.....these are looks that people see and with them try to assume your age, lifestyle, job, music taste, intelligence, marital status, sexual preference, and on and on. Take those "haired" folks and shave it all off, and people no longer know how to read them or what category to put them in.
Tyler:
--- Quote from: chadoweasel on December 14, 2006, 09:33:27 AM ---I think it actually gives people one LESS thing to make assumptions on, and that is the thing that bothers some people. They find it harder to put you in a stereotype. I mean...all shapes, sizes, ages, and colors of people can can go with the bald head. Think of all the hair looks that actually DO get you stereotyped: Mullets, comb-overs, mohawks, long, short, parted in the middle, parted on the side, straight, curly, clean, neat, messy, greasy.....these are looks that people see and with them try to assume your age, lifestyle, job, music taste, intelligence, marital status, sexual preference, and on and on. Take those "haired" folks and shave it all off, and people no longer know how to read them or what category to put them in.
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It's interesting you make that point. In the Stanford Prison Experiment they shaved the "prisoners'" heads to take away their individuality. http://www.prisonexp.org/slide-11.htm
Do you think shaving your head makes you more or less of an individual?
chadoweasel:
I don't think it changes individuality. I know I am not defined by my hair or lack thereof.
I do believe it takes quite a strong individual to initially shave it off :) So I may say it takes MORE of an individual when its his first time. After shaving it though, its pretty easy to keep it that way...haha.
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