I look forward to hearing how this will fuck you up 20 years down the road. Just bite the bullet, grow a pair, and let that hair go. You’ll thank yourself down the road. Note, that I’m referring to men specifically.
No need to wait that long. Hair loss drugs fuck with your androgens and can cause depression
fuck with your androgens and cause depression
chases daily fin pill with the double daily 2.5mg of sublingual estradoil
Andro-who-now?
Seriously though, some of us are glad to see em go lol.
Fair but that is a small minority of people
What if I’m already bald and struggle with depression?
Seriously. My hairline receded when I was 17. Accepting what is is a much better way to live your life. Especially if you’re white and you just don’t want to go bald cause “then you’ll be old”. Everyone gets old. Accepting the balding sooner makes it harder to tell what your age is going forward. Like Patrick Stewart.
Not only that, but maintenance is cheap, easy, and quick. No more waiting around for a haircut, having to go to the barber, or tipping. A razor costs like $0.05 and it takes like 5 minutes to shave. You don’t have to fret about expensive meds or haircare products. It’s really the best. I know how hard and imasculating hair loss can be for a man, but once you clear that hurdle it’s smooth sailing. Plus some women really like the bald look.
People always say this but, even putting aesthetics aside, I’d choose a full head of hair any day.
You talk about the speed of shaving but don’t say you have to do it every day or it looks like shiiiit. I used to go 2-3 months between haircuts and they cost $20+tip
I don’t get why being white matters here.
In black communities, hair care is community building. By going bald, you lose or limit access to the community created in the barber’s chair. White people don’t have this, so losing your hair is just about vanity, not a loss or reduction of identity.
I don’t know. I have a great relationship with my barber. I don’t think that our relationship is less meaningful just because the color of our skin.
I also do not believe that people in general, no matter the color of their skin, go only to barbers of their same skin color. Not all the world live in 1960s USA. Pretty sure plenty of white folks go to black barbers, and plenty of back folks go to white barbers.
Pretty sure plenty of white folks go to black barbers, and plenty of back folks go to white barbers.
Yeah, and that shows your level of ignorance here. Cosmetology and barber schools don’t teach about black hair types and difficulties. White is default in these places and black hair care is considered a “specialty” skill. A black person can’t just walk into any barbershop. Well, they could but it’s unlikely anyone knows how to help them.
I have to be done here, but this is definitely a blind spot for you. Maybe look into it?
Lots to unpack here.
You still do not explain why white people’s relationships with their barbers are less meaningful just because the color of their skin.
Also I don’t get why a person with white skin could not go to a barber who has black skin, which would know how to cut white hair because as you said it’s the default, and build a great friendship and community there.
Where I live most white people go to PoC barbershops because most barbershops are own by PoC overall.
Black people and white people are allowed to be friends and to go to each others business now.
Brother. As a white person, if you need a haircut you can go to any salon. Your hair isn’t under constant scrutiny. Your default hairstyle isn’t treated as something dirty or wrong. You don’t experience othering or ostracization because of your hair.
You, as an individual, can choose to have your hair be a connection to community. That can be a beautiful thing and losing that might be devastating to you, as an individual. A black person is thrust into community because of their hair because of systemic oppression. It’s a struggle that brings everyone in that community together. You can’t separate one from the other. Every black man who loses his hair loses this integral connection he has to his community.
White people’s connection to community through their hair is a choice, black people’s connection to community through their hair is a survival tactic. That’s why they’re fundamentally different. You can choose, they have no choice but to do so.
Sure white people can go to any barber and be sure they have been trained in straight hair but that is not the point. White people with extremely curly or frizzy hair are also poorly served by society.
So people of African descent have a skill gap to contend with, on top of prejudice to negotiate, and hair becomes a political thing where community needs to close ranks.
Why is it a more meaningful relationship than for non-blacks? Tradition on top of comfort and security, and a layer of “insider knowledge.”
Getting huffy about it is pretty cringy, though, and I wish you were more open to learning.
It’s harder for us girls. I’ve got a hat with a wig sewn in so I have that going for me which is nice.
Minodixil has already shown dangerous side effects, or so I read somewhere (but IIRC it was a reputable source, I just don’t have a link to prove it, sorry).
There have been reports of water forming around the heart due to oral minoxidil. It needs to be tested that the oral extended release version is safe. The problem is only a small percentage might have this potentially lethal side effect, so it needs to be tested very throughly
Minoxidil is also a super potent blood pressure medicine. I don’t have the numbers obviously, but this is already widely available at compounding pharmacies so I imagine there are probably thousands of people already using it.
I’m on oral minox, finn, and estrogen. My hair regrowth is ridiculous.
I remember when I was about 8 I asked my dad (who had the typical cul de sac bald on top thing going, and was a general practitioner) why he didn’t use any of the hair growth pills. He told me that he would “rather have a dick that worked and no hair, than a full head of hair and a limp dick”.
I still kinda wish he just told me “there are side effects”, I was fucking 8.
My limited research into these is that you pretty much have to keep taking them. I’s consider it, mostly because of sun and skin cancer risks, but not if I have to take a drug for the rest of my life. I have hats, they work fine.
They’re called testosterone blockers.
I heard that minoxidil doesn’t actually grow hair.
Correct, it’s blocking dht which enables your hair follicles to grow hair. If the Minoxidil grew the hair it would just fall out again ✨
Incorrect, that is finesteride.
God damn me.
Thanks. It work good, still.
We’ve got wars and bad economy everywhere in what is quickly becoming a full on dystopia but we have a pill that can give you your boner back and now another pill that will give you your hair back. You can then pretend you are an “alpha” again and do more wars and cheat the masses out of more money. Pharmacy is a miracle! /s
What a silly thing to say. No need to shame men for taking these pills. I for one love that there are hair regrowth pills since its gonna help a lot with my mtf transition. Should they stop development into these pills just because there are some dicks in the whitehouse?
Yep, take a pill that goes in your stomach, absorbed through the intestines, into your blood stream, liver, etc, to grow hair on your head.
Bullshit.
I meaaan, Paracetamol goes through the same process and it lowers headaches.
Another example:
Ozempic gets injected into subcutaneous fat and works its way through the body, via the liver and heart, to alter the glp hormones in your pancreas and brain.
I’m sure we could think of lots of other examples where drugs are administered somewhere else to affect different areas.
OPs argument is as ignorant as flat-earth theorists.
Edit: and this shows this thread is a sausage-fest, as nobody mentioned either the pill or the morning-after pill which I’m sure most women would have probably said instantly.
Tell us more about how you don’t understand how medication works?
We actually do not know how medication works.
You’d be baffled knowing how we research new medications (it’s randomly trying millions of different molecules).
One breakthrough where we know more is MRNA but that’s just a small part.
And metabolism? We have a poor understanding of about 10-15%(we don’t even know where it all happens or how much there is), the rest is unknown.
Oh look, an amateur pharmacologist.
This is why we grind aspirins into our forehead to relieve a headache.
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
Yes, take a pill that goes to your stomach, absorbed by your intestines, into your bloodstream, liver, etc. to decrease your acne (isotretinoin)
… to stop asthma (salbutamol)
etc.
APLLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR FOREHEAD! APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR FOREHEAD!
You say that but oral/sublingual fin and estradoil worked much better than topical Finn/minoxidil alone.
That includes when I was still taking estradoil orally.
