Bald prejudice is often a subtle mask for a different snap judgement, as many people prume that a man wh a shaved head is one of two thgs: gay or who shave their heads receive prejudice om both the socially liberal and the socially nservative, seeg as a mon reprentative of somethg they abhor.
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BALD MEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
Bald prejudice is often a subtle mask for a different snap judgement, as many people prume that a man wh a shaved head is one of two thgs: gay or racist. Siarly, ask an acquatance to draw a male homosexual and the scrawled picture you’ll receive return will likely be of a leather-draped sk-head wh a motache.
A patterned shirt), strangers regularly prume I’m gay.
BALD AND UNR THIRTY: ARE YOU GAY OR RACIST, MATE?
I’m neher a football-hooligan-turned-bouncer nor a gay man1, and I fd tertg how the two groups, which are many ways iologilly opposed, share such a strikg symbol. It mak sense for gay men to fetishise the shaven head, as the fg feature of a male homosexual is his eroticisatn of the penis. For a fascistic thug, though, the ifitn of the c*ck mak ls sense, unls one subscrib to the sneerg viewpot that every homophobe is a reprsed homosexual sred of his own sir.