Dave the Tech Guy gave me some great news while we were at work the other day – there are people in this world who fear bald people.
Yeah. That’s right. Bald people. Click here if you don’t believe me.
That fear of bald people is called peladophobia and, apparently, those afflicted with it can suffer from “breathlessness, dizziness, excessive sweating, nausea, feeling sick, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of dying, becoming mad or losing control, a sensation of detachment from reality or a full blown anxiety attack.”
And it seems that peladophobia is fairly widespread. As a man who is going bald I couldn’t be happier.
Why? Because the whole thing is just plain funny. Yes, the very notion that my balding head could cause people heart palpitations, filling them with the fear of dying, etc. seems both ridiculous and fair.
Fair? Yes, fair. Going bald is downright annoying and distinctly unfair. Those cocky folks with healthy hairlines are uppity and they deserve getting a heart palpitation or two when they run across some of us who aren’t so blessed.
Peladophobia, then, is just nature’s way of letting some of us get even. We balding men have power and it’s high time we stepped up to the plate and used it.
By the way, is a peladophobiac goes bald, is he scared of himself? I wonder…
4 comments:
You are obviously making this up, The Hawg!
Or perhaps these are the same sort of people who talk about delusions of being abducted bald-headed aliens and they imagine bald people to be such aliens!!
I for one am not frightened by bald men--I find most of them particularly sexy. I mean just look at Patrick Stewart! Yul Brenner! Need I say more?
My darlin husband you need to quit worrying about going bald... I think you are sexy and that is all that matters...
MKN
Denford -- Sadly, I'm not making that up at all. It appears to be a real phobia. Funny stuff.
Patricia -- From the post below, you'll see my wife likes bald men, too. That's all that matters...
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