To baldly go...
For some time now, men claiming to be women have been invading spaces traditionally reserved for genuine, biologically-relevant women; soundly defeating them in their sports and beauty pageants. Their entry into women's competitions is justified with bullshit rhetoric to the effect that all women have different lived experiences, and possessing a penis is just one of them.
So, when I saw a link on the BBC News site claiming There is no right or wrong way to have alopecia
, I naturally thought it referred to hirsute individuals muscling in on baldies' victimhood. Trampling over their rights with a throwaway under this mane, I am bald and proud of it
; despite my luscious tresses, I've always felt hairless
; or baldness is a social construct
.
More prosaically, it directs to an article by Sofia Ferreira Santos on how baldies can allay their social anxiety…by wearing a wig.
Gail Porter has been praised by campaigners and people living with alopecia after she posed for a photoshoot with a wig for the first time this week.
Sofia Ferreira Santos, BBC News
I honestly thought hairpieces had been a known thing for centuries. If so, did a D-list nonentity's photoshoot really raise awareness of their existence among the [cough] alopecia community
? Or is it simply a case of Ms Ferreira Santos being hard at work, grinding away in BBC News' manky old rope factory?