Women With Hair Loss Speak Out Against Head-Shaving Protest: "Your Actions Are Selfish"
Women who suffer from hair loss or cancer are angered by feminists shaving their heads to be "less desirable."
Some liberal women across America are shaving their heads in response to Donald Trump’s latest election win. The trend was inspired by South Korea’s “4B” movement – which urges women to say “no” to men (sex, marriage, children, dating) in response to oppression.
Women claim they are shaving their heads to make themselves “less desirable” to men, rallying around what they call an act of defiance against the patriarchy's beauty standards.
The choice to shave your head out of impulse under the guise of “change” is one thing, but for women who live with hair loss from alopecia or chemo, baldness isn’t a choice.
It’s a reality they’ve had to wrestle with emotionally and publicly. And when protest shaves suddenly make bald heads the latest anti-man, anti-pretty statement, it sends an awful message to those women who have fought hard to reclaim their beauty and dignity. @xlaurynalexis on TikTok passionately called out these protest shaves, saying, “You say you're shaving your head so 'men won't want you'... but does that mean that men shouldn't want women that have struggled with hair loss due to alopecia or chemo?”
“Your actions are very selfish, and it's only affecting the women that have struggled with hair loss. Should we not be able to feel loved by a man? Should men not want us because we're bald?” she asked. “Yall are making it seem like being bald is a bad thing, and it's really aggravating me,” adding, “I have fought too long and hard to normalize bald women.”
Women who have suffered from hair loss had to learn to accept themselves. They are beautiful, strong, and worthy of love. But when others publicly equate baldness with unattractiveness or rebellion, it sets back the body positivity efforts of those working every day to normalize it. It’s incredibly infuriating for women with alopecia or cancer to watch this “trend” backslide all the progress they’ve made.
A woman with cancer said in her viral video, “You’re f*cking crybabies. Get your f*cking lives together. I’m so sick of this sh*t. Got it? There are some of us that have no choice. I had cancer and the chemo, and I had to shave my head.”
A woman on TikTok named Ellen kept it blunt, saying, “If you shaved your head for the 4B movement pls know I genuinely hate you.” That’s how personal this feels to the community. Imagine working to dismantle the stigma around baldness only to have a whole group of people equate it with rejecting femininity and desirability. When will liberal feminists learn that they're only hurting women by framing hair loss as a "choice" without considering the reality of those who don't have that option?
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