Bias in the media?

[Razor X]

The following link will take you to an ad currently being run by the Pennsylvania Department of Health in an attempt to educate people about the growing obesity problem.  It is a good ad, but I'm a little bothered by one thing.  The ad shows an animated figure who is a child, talking about what he might look like when he grows up if he doesn't exercise and eats pizza all day.  He morphs into an overweight adult with MPB. 

Next he talks about what he'd look like if he ran all day and ate nothing but vegetables.  He morphs into an overly-tall, skinny adult with a completely bald head.  Then he talks about what he'd look like if he eats a balanced diet, and he morphs into a lean, muscular adult with a full head of hair. 

Is there a subliminal anti-bald message here or am I just being too sensitive?  View the clip and decide for yourself:

[PBurke]

down with the media. but then again, not everone knows the advatages of being SLY. if everyone were bald then we would not be as cool as we are. never would have found this site and made so many friends. to hell with people that put a negative image on being bald.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I don't really like how they portayed that either.  What does his hair have to do with diet?  There's no medical evidence that I've seen that links diet to hair loss.  Some of the most fit people I know actually have a balding pate.

We could always write them or put out a press release asking for them to change it.

[frostillicus123]

BALD IS BEAUTIFUL AND WE ARE BALD what's that state?

[Professor Melon]

  Dear Razor X: You're not imagining things! The clip is biased and based on an ignorant antique stereotype. Baldness very seldom has to do with diet. The kid in the ad could eat the most carefully balanced diet in the world and still grow up to be totally bald or a case of male pattern baldness, if he were thus genetically programmed. This is a false message to send boys, as bad as inferring that wearing hats causes baldness. It's worse aesthetically and just as biased: why do the skinny and obese bald adults wear frowns, whereas the buff haired adult wears a smile? Maybe the bald guys should wear those smiles because they know they're sly, and the haired guy should frown because he knows he's a conventional, increasingly unrealistic mannequing [or because he's wearing a rug]. Whoever concocted the clip should look at the twelve guys on the NYFD 2007 calendar, which my daughter requested for Christmas: four are completely bald, two  apparently by choice, two by DHT inevitability. The media need to grasp reality; the longer American adults live, the more they're going to bald. And We have more buying power than any other minority. Bald Guyz products have the right idea. Professor Melon

[Razor X]

We could always write them or put out a press release asking for them to change it.

Not a bad idea.  I doubt that they will change it, but it might generate some publicity for this site.

[Robmeister]

if everyone were bald then we would not be as cool as we are

Moreover.....if EVERBODY was bald....we just flip the tables on'm and grow our hair out....SLY HAIRY GUYS.....even if ya have a horseshoe mullet 

[Drackare]

Dear Razor X: You're not imagining things! The clip is biased and based on an ignorant antique stereotype. Baldness very seldom has to do with diet. The kid in the ad could eat the most carefully balanced diet in the world and still grow up to be totally bald or a case of male pattern baldness, if he were thus genetically programmed. This is a false message to send boys, as bad as inferring that wearing hats causes baldness. It's worse aesthetically and just as biased: why do the skinny and obese bald adults wear frowns, whereas the buff haired adult wears a smile? Maybe the bald guys should wear those smiles because they know they're sly, and the haired guy should frown because he knows he's a conventional, increasingly unrealistic mannequing [or because he's wearing a rug]. Whoever concocted the clip should look at the twelve guys on the NYFD 2007 calendar, which my daughter requested for Christmas: four are completely bald, two  apparently by choice, two by DHT inevitability. The media need to grasp reality; the longer American adults live, the more they're going to bald. And We have more buying power than any other minority. Bald Guyz products have the right idea. Professor Melon

Very well put

[wpruitt]

Most eloquent Professor Melon

[Razor X]

What they should have done was show the overweight and lanky versions as having MPB and the buff "just right" version with a shaved head.  How cool would that have been?

[Professor Melon]

  Super cool, Razor! I felt that way so strongly myself, that I shaved a second time on Sunday just to glisten in protest. Melon

[Robmeister]

....I shaved a second time on Sunday just to glisten in protest.

I like it!!..........that's usin' the ol' noggin, Professor

 

[PigPen]

....I shaved a second time on Sunday just to glisten in protest.

I like it!!..........that's usin' the ol' noggin, Professor

 

In more ways than one.

[Robmeister]

....I shaved a second time on Sunday just to glisten in protest.

I like it!!..........that's usin' the ol' noggin, Professor

 

In more ways than one.

LOL!!!....yep!

That shiny dome on the professor is packed with machinery that's in full production, man.....the grey matter is movin' & shakin'.

Me like Professor Melon

[schro]

Screw the media!
I was told that all the information that is truly important in this world can be found at

www.slybaldguys.com.

From what I've heard it's a informationally packed website mediated by sexy men (and one sexy UK woman) from all over the globe that were brought together to dispell myths about ...well...globes and the beauty of a perfectly clean dome. You should check out this website!!!

Schro