Legitimately Begging You Guys To Stop Using Bald As Your None Of The Above Answer (and I Do Not Want

legitimately begging you guys to stop using bald as your ‘none of the above’ answer (and I do not want to hear about ‘what if I’m doing a hairstyle quiz?’ you KNOW that’s not what I’m talking about here) bc I don’t think anyone realizes that like. at best in context it’s taken as a joke about default avatars or whatever. at worst, you’re playing into a long history of just being a fucking asshole.

baldness is just a trait its not a joke. I made a post on this a while ago but no one’s hair should be a joke unless the person who styled it intends for it to be. you think of being balding/bald specifically as being funny because popular media has convinced you it is so no one gets bothered when they make fun of bald people. But despite popular belief, hair is generally not a fashion trend, it’s a trait, and the thing is that baldness (like many hair types) is not always a choice. some people chose to be bald. a lot of people do not. people become bald for various reasons, but specifically stuff like various kinds of alopecia or cancer treatment or tension baldness can be incredibly traumatic experiences that are only added to when people treat their hair loss as a funny joke.

please think about it. what is actually funny about other people’s baldness. is there any kind of humor about it which isn’t punching down? because if there isn’t, the joke isn’t funny, it’s just mean.

what happened to vanilla extract? what happened to just saying ‘none of the above’? can we please be normal about balding/bald people for once

people are absolutely EVIL about the boundaries of “picky eaters”. no, they do not have to try it. yes, they can know they don’t like it without having eaten it before. no, they probably have not suddenly grown a taste for the food they’ve said they hate. no, they probably are not going to like it in the Special Way This One Place Cooks It. yes, you are being a bad friend if you try to “trick” them into eating it anyway

Autism thing i hate that it’s considered rude to not like a food and not want to eat it. And i hate that i have to be all apologetic about it instead of people just understanding that foods just aren’t for everyone and a person not wanting to eat something isn’t an insult to anyone’s cooking

i wish disabled people got as much free shit as people think we got. i want snacks

hey actually can we stop treating hair loss or absence in media like it’s either a huge joke or a horrible tragedy? please? because i’m getting really sick of hairlessness (whether partial or total) constantly being depicted like it’s unnatural and strange—especially when it comes to afab or feminine people, but also just in general! and this applies to short hair, too, or generally ‘weird’ haircuts, by the way.

stop using a person’s hair (or lack thereof) as the butt of your jokes or the basis of your tragedy. until mainstream media starts accurately and explicitly depicting people with conditions like alopecia (something which should be normalized but has been made shameful by the standards media and society perpetuates), it should not and does not have the right to decide the narrative of their lives.