Politically Correct Term for "Bald"
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Follically deficient, lockless.
Hair on side if that is the case.
Shaved if no hair at all. Many bald men do shave their heads to have it cleaned right up.
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Shaved if no hair at all. Many bald men do shave their heads to have it cleaned right up.
When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer
Alexander Den Heijer
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/2019 03:27PM by prince.
Completely follicle challenged
Shopping South Jersey, Southeast Pennsylvania, and Delaware above the canal since 2008
How about color of hair: invisible. Why they would not want bald is a mystery to me. I thought bald was in these days. Most of the males in my family are bald and proud of it. My dad had about two hairs plus a fringe around the sides and would go to get a haircut every so often. He always used to kid that the barber should offer a discount for cutting bald heads.
It’s not political correctness. Acting bent out of shape because you don’t want to use “no hair” as a description is a different problem.
@Mert wrote:
"Receding hairline"
Definitely not PC, Mert!
It's either shaved head, no hair, or short hair...or I guess long hair if it's a comb-over, but you can't put comb-over either.
@sandyf wrote:
Why they would not want bald is a mystery to me. I thought bald was in these days.
The point is about not making assumptions or generalizations. Some may choose to shave their head as a fashion statement. Some may shave their head to hide a receding hairline that they don't want to be the first thing noticed about them. Bald implies an inability to grow hair, while shaved head is just a simple fact.
'Skin head' probably wouldn't be pc, but that was a fun list to read. Had no idea bald could mean so many things. Try "juiceless" and tell us what the editor writes back.
I usually use "neatly shaved." For color I'll just say n/a or unidentified with an explanation that the hair wasn't long enough to be able to see a color.
@SteveSoCal wrote:
@Mert wrote:
"Receding hairline"
Definitely not PC, Mert!
It's either shaved head, no hair, or short hair...or I guess long hair if it's a comb-over, but you can't put comb-over either.
“Receding hairline” is listed in the requirements a shop. Hence the quotes. Guess I should have explained.
So "no hair" sounds the best to me. Descriptive and does not assign an incorrect word for those heads that have no hair to shave. Shaved does not cover my family! Just as wrong as calling a shaved head bald.
@SteveSoCal wrote:
@Mert wrote:
"Receding hairline"
Definitely not PC, Mert!
It's either shaved head, no hair, or short hair...or I guess long hair if it's a comb-over, but you can't put comb-over either.
@sandyf wrote:
Why they would not want bald is a mystery to me. I thought bald was in these days.
The point is about not making assumptions or generalizations. Some may choose to shave their head as a fashion statement. Some may shave their head to hide a receding hairline that they don't want to be the first thing noticed about them. Bald implies an inability to grow hair, while shaved head is just a simple fact.
@Mert wrote:
“Receding hairline” is listed in the requirements a shop. Hence the quotes. Guess I should have explained.
Ah...the hair replacement shop? That's a whole other can of worms. You can list the staff there as "no longer bald" and they are OK with that
I put that one in the same category of the 'breastaurant' shop that asks shoppers to comment on the server's makeup. License to be politically incorrect....
We are getting entirely too sensitive in this country.
Oh, it used to specifically ask if she was pretty enough to be a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. No lie.@SteveSoCal wrote:
I put that one in the same category of the 'breastaurant' shop that asks shoppers to comment on the server's makeup. License to be politically incorrect....
Did they take that out?
My husband did this shop with a friend, many years ago. He answered that she was pretty, but her awful, nasty personality would have disqualified her.
Yes, you can thank him for the "no pitchers of beer" rule too. Two guys + three pitchers = new rule for all shoppers.
"Treeless" Doesn't even make sense to me, unless we're talking about a bald mountainside.
@panama18 wrote:
We are getting entirely too sensitive in this country.
I don't think we are getting anywhere. We are there! You can either work within the existing system...or not.
I don't think it's too much to strike a few derogatory terms for not having hair to the MS lexicon. We already have to dance around ethnicity, weight, gender, age, etc.
Receding hairline or most descriptors representing hair loss absolutely suck. I think men who are losing their hair are often sensitive about it. My late father, who had a comb-over after 1980 (he was born in 1924) would have been offended for sure. If there is no hair, write there is no hair; it doesn't matter if it was shaved or if it's non-existent. If there is some hair and they ask for a color, do your best. Do you see some hair? What color is it? If it is cropped or combed over, put the discernible color.
@Mert wrote:
@SteveSoCal wrote:
@Mert wrote:
"Receding hairline"
Definitely not PC, Mert!
It's either shaved head, no hair, or short hair...or I guess long hair if it's a comb-over, but you can't put comb-over either.
“Receding hairline” is listed in the requirements a shop. Hence the quotes. Guess I should have explained.
Very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very short hair.
A Dad shopping the Ark-LA-Tex and beyond.
We might not know who the cancer patients are or who the baldies are who are supporting someone who has that condition. The hair question is icky. Picture it: you are memorizing details when the pate-covering scarf blows off and smacks you in the face. After you extract the annoying thing from your proboscis, you notice the hairless head... would you have preferred a wig or a toupee?
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