How are bald man perceived?

Are you Bald or going bald?

  • No, I have all my hair
  • I have slight hair loss
  • I have serious hair loss
  • I have heavy hair loss
  • I am bald
  • I am bald (but not because I had any hair loss, by choice)

0 voters

Sorry if this seems like I’m going on the same topic as before under the health and fitness section, but I wanted to get a general impression of how bald men are viewed in Taiwan. This topic is a bit different from the topic in health and fitness because it centers around how people perceive bald male heads instead of how to treat baldness.

Anyhow, that being said my main concern if I do eventually go bald in a couple of years is what Taiwanese girls and Taiwanese in general think of it. I don’t think it’s very common in Asian men to go bald until they are a bit older while us individuals with some European descent seem to be prone to go bald at much younger ages (correct me if I’m wrong). I want to keep going out and meeting new girls but I don’t want my baldness to be a big turn-off for first dates. That means I will have to significantly improve other areas of myself such as my physical appearance and also my monetary wealth just to keep up.

This of course not only effects dating but also business and guanxi building. Thus I’m very interested to know how Taiwanese view balding. Perhaps if they too don’t really see it as that big of a deal and accept it as a natural phenomena I would have an easier time accepting baldness in my future.

[quote=“Rabidpie”] That means I will have to significantly improve other areas of myself such as my physical appearance and also my monetary wealth just to keep up.
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This is key. All things being equal I doubt that many women would go for a baldy. Just as few would go for someone with a tiny cock or a massively hairy back. The trick is to make yourself attractive in other areas. Physical and financial are very important, I’m sure. Intellect, wit, honesty, decency, reliability etc probably enter into the equation. Female posters would have a better handle on this than I do.

You’re going bald and you’ll have to deal with it. Taiwanese women are pretty much no different to any other women in what they like and don’t like IME. I reckon you’ll probably find one who’ll be prepared to overlook the chrome dome issue, if other factors are at the very least satisfactory. My wife did.

Lots do. Take it from me. Baldness, schmaldness! I bet yon dude in The King And I didn’t have much trouble scoring a bit of strange when he had a mind. Or that Jim Petrol film star in them car chase films. Or old Dwayne Johnstone. You think too much. Worry more about your unshaven earlobes and those horrible nostril hairs. People can SEE them things!

Lots do. Take it from me. [/quote]

Yes, they do. For the reasons I listed.

Lots do. Take it from me. Baldness, schmaldness! I bet yon dude in The King And I didn’t have much trouble scoring a bit of strange when he had a mind. Or that Jim Petrol film star in them car chase films. Or old Dwayne Johnstone. You think too much. Worry more about your unshaven earlobes and those horrible nostril hairs. People can SEE them things![/quote]
Taking it from you, that’s your wife’s department. Hahah.

Hairy lobes and nostrils ain’t the whole list, you know. In addition I now have a single hair that grows straight up from the bridge of my nose. Seriously! Nothing says yer an old geezer like suddenly noticing a cm-long hair ON your nose, waving like a stalk of wheat at the bottom of your sight, take it from me.

Only on Tuesday mornings, Thursday afternoons and Saturday evenings. Other time slots are reserved for the gorgeous and lovely (but perennially unsated) wives of… but NO! I cannot and WOULD not divulge names in that way! This is the FLOB!

Stronger, taller, more dominant, :thumbsup: but older and less attractive. :thumbsdown: Oh well, you can’t have it all…

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/men-with-shaved-heads-stronger-taller-more-dominant-but-older-and-less-attractive/

… baldly…