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Permalink Reply by Joshua on June 19, 2009 at 12:28pm

Hi Bud,

I am going to comment on your questions from bottom up.

1) Do more women than men get alopecia?---probably only God knows the real answer. The most reliable source would be the statistical data acquired by organisation like NAAF, but then not all people with alopecia see a doctor, or not all doctor would report their alopecia diagnosis to the organisation.

2) It seems most of the posters on this site are female, does that reflect how alopecia occurs?
I am male, and certainly am upset to lose my hair in odd-shaped spots, sometimes growing back gray. But as I understand it, it affects females more, socially, relationships etc. I think that you may have found the answer for your question, it is probably that alopecia affects female more socially and relationship (e.g. generally, not conclusively that Its easier for a bald man to be hired than a bald women)

But the answers above doesnt reflect that being a male alopecian is easy, it is just as tough as being a female alopecian with a few area of exceptions as perceived by the society.

jt

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Permalink Reply by Sam Sam on August 16, 2009 at 9:04am

If someone sees a man bald no one will give it a second thought.. for a bald woman it all the talk... I know men do struggle with AA/AT/AU and it should not be overlooked. it does seem that AA/AT/AU effects Women lives more.

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Permalink Reply by Jane on August 23, 2009 at 3:55am

Non-gender battery related alopecia is random. Regarding male-female-pattern baldness genetic trait alopecia (also called androgenetic alopecia)—males are more visibly affected than females, however areata, totalis and universalis related alopecia are randomly occurring, but more likely in persons with some health impediments (but not necessarily related to and/or addressing the impact of hiv/aids on such an occurrence in this specific question as it would require some long-term investigation/research) in a general sense. However in any case, whether someone cut your hair (a type of gender battery) or it just fell out (severe allergen/auto immuno-related), hats, scarves, brow stenciling and wigs for women (and classic (i.e., stingy brim dobbs/fedora) hats and custom wigs for men) easily resolve any superficial issues and anyone in your family certainly wouldn’t ridicule you.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

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Permalink Reply by JeffreySF on November 11, 2009 at 8:23pm

I think the ratio of gender related alopecia is 50/50 with a higher prevalence in childhood onset.
I think this is what I have read from www.naaf,org

Jeffrey

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Permalink Reply by Michael Gutwein on February 17, 2010 at 3:33am

I have it and my sister have it. we are 3 years apart and seem to swap turns going through stages. but right now is the first time we both have it at the same time. So right now im very curious about it. Also the fact its my worst time going through it as far as hair loss goes. She has had it worse than me.

I think women are taught through society in most cases, her hair is very important. Where as men can do whatever they want to their hair, who cares. Same things with our emotions. For women and childeren its expected to talk about your feelings and cry about things. For guys growing up its almost a thing where you only do those things as a child. Your a man now grow upblah blah blah. obviously it depends where you live and how societys veiws are in that area of the world as well as religious veiws.

BUT, i had long hair and I enjoyed having it. Its kind of different for a guy to have hair around the middle of his chest. I stood out and plus it did help cover my spots. but I grew to like it and such. Having 5 sisters and no brothers, it was just me and dad. I had a really hard time deciding to cut my hair due to the loss of the hair. but decided if im going to have these bald spots it would look better with very short hair rather than trying to hang on to my long hair only for it to look like crap when it did start growing back. Plus the weight of the hair and I now wanted to track my loss of hair. So my want to understand it and know what it feels like to have it to this extreme overcame how I wanted to look. I figured I dont have a choice anymore.

I do think It would be harder and seen it took my sister more time to shave her head than me.But maybe because I seen her go through it,it helped me out. I have no idea. I would think her experience helped me by saying to myself If she can do it I can do it. I grew up in a house where hair was an important thing. it wasnt geared toward me, but it sure rubbed off on me growing up. My other sisters right now are feeling bad for me more than I think I feel for myself.

Oh man relationships. I would say Its got to be harder for those who seek to fit in more than those who are either leaders by nature or those who dont care. I think both genders have close ratios to personalitys of leaders, people who try to fit in and then people who dont care. Does that make any sense?

Great disscusion Bby the way. I have always wanted to put my sense into something like this for a long time. Cause its something I have always thought about.

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