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Michael Stipe, R.E.M.<\/p><\/div>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ&feature=player_embedded[\/youtube]\n

I have noticed more and more men are choosing to completely shave their heads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And, I just noticed that so many of them have blue eyes.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Michael Stipe, R.E.M.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

a note: to remind you, I have lived on a ranch in western Kansas and spent a lot of time painting, jewelry-making, designing, french-teaching, history-researching, driving, cooking, running and raising children. So, this may be something that everyone else noticed long ago, but I’m just now opening my eyes to these things since I now spend time in the big ‘Ta Town.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

So the two observations lead me to propose this generalization:<\/p>\n

Men<\/strong>\u00a0experiencing early male pattern baldness and blue eyes<\/span> are\u00a0rushing to<\/strong>\u00a0shave their heads to\u00a0get women.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, we can all accept the fact that many, if not\u00a0most men<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0are motivated to do anything, by one thing. So, this doesn’t seem like much of a statement.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

But this is so prevalent and apparently so effective, that even others without this syndrome seem to be following suit.<\/p>\n

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Wentworth Miller, whoever he is…<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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So let’s look at the steps from predicament to solution from a balding perspective.<\/strong><\/p>\n

a) Too much testosterone.<\/span> \u00a0No explanation needed there.\u00a0Getting plenty, no problem.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

b)\u00a0Blue eyes<\/span>. a single mutation which arose as recently as 6-10,000 years ago from one ancestor around the\u00a0Black Sea\u00a0was responsible for all the\u00a0blue-eyed people alive on Earth today. AndEuropeans are far more likely to have blue eyes.\u00a0They also have a far greater range of skin tones and hair colour than any other ethnic grouping. One theory for the proliferation of so many blue-eyed persons\u00a0in such a short period of time is\u00a0sex selection<\/strong>.\u00a0Sex selection comes to the fore when there is a lot of competition for mates of one sex or the other. The theory is that in Europe, where men had to spend weeks at a time out on the hunt, males were in very short supply. Therefore, the blue-eyed,<\/span> more unique men were at an advantage...again, getting plenty, no problem.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

c)\u00a0Hair loss, the problem arises.<\/strong>\u00a0Hair, in a general historical sense, has traditionally associated with virility in males. So, the men who were winning with\u00a0too much testosterone were now at a disadvantage.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

First, a little background material on hairinesss. It’s not really a tangent, stay with me…<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a differentiation between the effect of the level of testosterone in body hair versus that at the top of the head.<\/p>\n

In the body,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

more test is more,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

unlike on the head,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

where more test is less.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So, by the text books, more body hair indicates men that are fertile, sexually mature and strong<\/span>. And if you believe in evolution, fertile women should go for the hairy bods.<\/p>\n

But Finnish psychologists actually found the opposite to be true.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are their propositions:<\/p>\n

Fertile women aren’t looking at the body hair, they are looking at the man\u2019s muscles to work out whether he\u2019s got good genes.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Less body hair in the way reveals the structure. This is reflected in current aesthetics for idealism in both sexes of defined bod musculature and hairlessness. I am interested to see that this seemingly narcicisstic trend might actually has some positive (?) genetic basis.<\/p>\n

The Finns also propose it’s\u00a0not the testosterone but the estradiol.<\/strong>\u00a0As estradiol increases, it changes males character slightly, making them better able to take care of their children.\u00a0So less body hair may reflect a man’s greater caring potential.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>This might explain why women not desiring or post child-bearing age have no problem with hairy male bodies.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0So, the solution.<\/strong>\u00a0The balding men have taken it a step further.<\/span> Being unable to do anything on their head (implants, plugs, rogaine, all humiliating and make women laugh at them even more) they have found a clever solution to regain their ability to get<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

They are marching the smoothness-in-body hair trend vertically upward to tap into a visual characteristic that will trigger a women’s perception of caring potential, a positive trait equally effective in getting sex. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

And I give them a great deal of credit<\/strong> for researching the genetic, historical and cultural trends that have brought them to this point. \u00a0It’s a great look to add to the men’s team and very timely: \u00a0modern, clean, streamlined, low maintenance, functionally simple.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michael Chiklis from The Shield.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

But most important<\/em>,\u00a0why it works?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Bald blue-eyed men\u00a0remind of us\u00a0our babies<\/span>….smooth heads and their \u00a0blue eyes<\/span> at birth.<\/p>\n

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I remember…..carry on sweet thing…<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

These testosterone-laden men are fully aware of the feeling that comes over a mother when gazing into the eyes of her infant.<\/span><\/p>\n

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They have tapped into that desire for women to nurture their newborn and are attempting to channel it elsewhere, and where else would that be? They’ve done their homework and history. I have to say, \u00a0I’m very impressed<\/em>\u00a0with the sophistication of this thought process.<\/p>\n

But, I would warn that conjuring up an infant in a woman’s mind to get sex might carry some\u00a0risk\u00a0to be aware of.<\/p>\n

That is, that infant also came with some other\u00a0more challenging nascent characteristics. I won’t mention these because, of course, \u00a0we\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0possess them and their potential is there to arise at any moment when unchecked. \u00a0But, of course,\u00a0we all know\u00a0how worth it they were in raising\u00a0with our children.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why I felt I had to share, since of course, this has no real relevance at my age.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n