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Why bother? I don't really care about going bald. If baldness was as unattractive to women as many men think it is, male pattern baldness wouldn't have evolved
by arrowsmith 2y ago
Why bother? I don't really care about going bald.
If baldness was as unattractive to women as many men think it is, male pattern baldness wouldn't have evolved.
- apeescape 2y agoMany people do care about it though, just see the market size of hair implants and Rogaine.
- barrenko 2y ago> men care.
- stavros 2y agoMen care because women care. I don't think it's that far-fetched that women prefer men with hair, and, as someone who had hair, then didn't, and now does again, I can definitely confirm it.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoWomen are free with their opinions on men's looks. They want to see height, chest hair, facial hair... but they seem pretty consistent in stating that they don't really care about baldness. They don't know what men care about either. https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2011/12/27/how-to-make-fun-of-the-opposite-sex.html https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2011/12... > How many times have you heard women complain about high heels, insinuating that it's men's fault they wear them? > Many. > How many times have you rejected a woman because her shoes were too flat?
- arrowsmith 2y agoDamn, I haven't read Basic Instructions in a loooong time. Glad to see it's still going strong!
- thaumasiotes 2y agoWell, it reached a stopping point, reran the entire history of the comic, and then started up again once that was finished.
- tempestn 2y agoUnless most procreation was done before it developed.
- CalRobert 2y agoIt usually sets in past your prime years though. Maybe it was an advantage on a societal level to make men less attractive in middle age compared to young men. (I say this as a 42 year old who misses my hair)
- root_axis 2y agoNot necessarily true. It could be that MPB evolved because it allowed females to select for younger males.
- Slava_Propanei 2y ago[dead]
- thaumasiotes 2y agoNo, that's not a possibility. The fact that a trait is harmful to you can never be the reason you evolved it.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThe more likely explanation is something like, higher temperatures impair cognitive function and older men were more likely to be in the village conducting business around the fire or in the presence of indoor heating than freezing their butts off in the wilderness as the younger men did, so they evolved to start having less insulation on their heads after they leave adolescence.
- Ekaros 2y agoOr that some random mutations do not have evolutionary consequences. Also lot of powerful people have had lot of offspring despite baldness.
- AnthonyMouse 2y ago"Nature did this for no reason" is in general not the default assumption. It's not that it can never happen, but rather that as soon as there are two phenotypes, evolution is going to start selecting for one of them over the other in any given environment unless the difference has zero effect on evolutionary fitness, which is unusual.
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- DamnYuppie 2y agoI am not sure that makes sense, historically people were marrying and having children much younger. I am talking about under 20 years of age. As such I don't think it would have much impact on mate selection as it was done when they were younger and had more "follicle vibrancy".
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- otikik 2y agoEvolution only “cares” (it doesn’t care; you know what I mean) about attractiveness during the time the male is able to procreate. Which is, <= 30 years. After that, the human animal is dead of sickness, malnutrition or a fight. The human person lives way longer thanks to modern medicine and tech. Evolution might “cares” about the male sticking around defending/teaching the family/tribe until he dies. He doesn’t need to be attractive by that point.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoIn the before times there were more things that could kill you early, but many people still lived into old age, e.g. the Roman Emperor Augustus (born in 63 BC) lived to the age of 75, and not all old men get ED.
- otikik 2y agoThe human animal is the one the evolution cares about. It’s the one that lives in caves, hunts by exhausting its prey and uses only rudimentary tools. Ausgustus is far removed from that.
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoI think it depends a lot on factors like head size/shape, proportionality to the rest of the body, etc. Some guys look amazing bald, but having been almost bald (very close cut) I find it quite awkward looking on myself.
- bufferoverflow 2y agoShort men are really unattractive to women, yet there are lots of them.