Bill Maher owes Jada Pinkett Smith — and bald people everywhere — an apology
Stephen H. Provost
There is, unfairly, a social stigma that goes with baldness and which is tied to shallow judgment of people that’s based on appearances. It’s far worse for women. It can open them up to ridicule, whispered or otherwise. People think there’s something wrong with them. Being bald is only “justified” for a woman if she has cancer, which becomes an excuse to feel sorry for her, rather than affirm her intrinsic beauty — hair or no hair.
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