Augusten Burroughs on Baldness:

"Women just smirk at baldness, as if it's cute. How 
adorable would they find it if they began to lose 
their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits 
just shrunk up - unevenly I might add - and eventually 
turned into wine-cork nubs. Then it would be a 
different story. Then men would get the pity they 
deserve from women, as opposed to the smirks. There 
would be little ribbons you could wear on your jacket 
for Baldness Awareness Month. There would be marathons 
where people wept openly as bald men crossed the finish 
line, smiling and wiping sweat from their fleshy heads.

"As far as I'm concerned, baldness is the male breast 
cancer, only much worse because almost everyone gets 
it. True, it's not life-threatening. Just social-life 
threatening. But in New York City, there is no difference."

- Augusten Burroughs
  in his book, Magical Thinking (True Stories), pp 52-53




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