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Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cam on October 02, 2012, 10:23:05 AM

Title: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: Cam on October 02, 2012, 10:23:05 AM
The study doesn't lie, gents. We're just that cool.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/349465/Bald-men-seen-as-tougher-and-more-powerful-
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: balddaniel on October 02, 2012, 10:25:24 AM
Good Study I will have to agree  :@`
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: Laser Man on October 02, 2012, 10:55:08 AM
Thanks for posting the link.  It's a good article!

I started a thread shortly after going sly about the change I noticed in strangers' reaction to me as a sly guy.  People were acting more deferential - like letting me go through the door first, calling me "sir", small stuuf like that.  The study helps explain why that was so.
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: Sly Red on October 02, 2012, 12:36:18 PM
My husband read that headline from the internet news feed this morning, then laughed derisively, so I beat him up.  >:D

Just kidding guys!   :*))

Red
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: Slynito on October 02, 2012, 01:17:59 PM
I had to laugh when I read...I know that guys with shaved heads often look the part of tough dudes, but I've recently run into a couple that could be pushed over with a feather.  :*)) :*))
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: D.A.L.U.I. on October 02, 2012, 01:34:54 PM
I'm not totally in agreement, but it does counter the unassailable fact that a balding head is a very public announcement of a gradual decline in our manhood--once shaved that decline is put to the lie.  Perhaps if "tougher and more powerful" is just another way of saying the guys who have shaved their heads in response to mpb  have clearly and unambiguously said that they're not in decline at all, control their lives, appearance, and to the extent possible their fate then, yes tougher, powerful and in absolutely no way subject to any gradual decline. 
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: Ming the Merciless on October 02, 2012, 02:03:14 PM
Oh, so true.

Before I shaved the head I was a peasant in the hinterlands, struggling to eke out a bare existence.  Once the hair was off, it was only an eyeblink before I was a planetary ruler.  Nuf sed.

Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: Natedawg on October 02, 2012, 02:09:16 PM
Goes to show how much people are judged by appearance. ...Good thing we're on the positive side of that.  8)
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: Slynito on October 02, 2012, 02:21:39 PM
Oh, so true.

Before I shaved the head I was a peasant in the hinterlands, struggling to eke out a bare existence.  Once the hair was off, it was only an eyeblink before I was a planetary ruler.  Nuf sed.



Nuf sed fer sure...Many of us are glad that the smoking hot Princess Aura doesn't share the likeness of her mighty, but homely father, Ming the Mirthless.
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: marty22 on October 02, 2012, 04:15:42 PM
saw that...Im sure its true.
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: theman on October 02, 2012, 04:25:46 PM
I do believe this is correct by what I have seen over the years.  I have dark brown eyes and I have been told with a shaven head and pearcing dark browns people tend to back off when I haven't got the twinkle ! O:O
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: mrzed on October 02, 2012, 04:50:43 PM
I sent the link to a friend who is balding. He buzzes his hair very short, but not shaved.

I suspect he'll shave some day.
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: marty22 on October 02, 2012, 05:10:38 PM
Long time Cam!
Title: Re: Study: Bald men are seen as 'tougher and more powerful'
Post by: Slynito on October 03, 2012, 10:21:36 AM
Here's a couple cents worth from the WSJ...

http://live.wsj.com/video/want-a-promotion-shave-your-head/D973560E-3193-4955-8F2D-1E31BDF235C5.html?link=MW_hp_tboverticalx8#!D973560E-3193-4955-8F2D-1E31BDF235C5

 :*))