On Hair Loss Matters: How Important Is Hair to a Man

A deliberate display of vanity is not the province of men. However, when it comes to topics like hair loss, they also shake. That is because hair loss is not a simple cosmetic problem that only women have the permission to lament about. It is psychologically damaging.

Although hair loss is normally a part of the ageing process, it is something that men also struggle to accept. Think Vin Diesel or Jason Statham. Both of these hunks have always maintained a small amount to nothing of their hair to avoid the ugly reality of hair loss.

Balding men are more prone to becoming the butt of jokes. They may appear to take the humor as it is, but it can begin to slowly take effect on them, to the extent that they become fixated with their condition.

A 1992 study from Old Dominion University in Virginia revealed that 84% of their respondents became preoccupied with their hair loss. They would refer to the feeling as ‘self-conscious’, ‘helpless’ and ‘envious of other men’. Who could blame them in a stereotypical society like ours? As a matter of fact, The British Journal of Psychology noted that balding men are often viewed as ‘older, weaker, less desirable, and are more likely to be denied for promotions or raises over their peers’.

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