>>76414226>>76414824>>76414831Prime example of intuition meets personal investment in the outcome.
Not all biological processes are advantageous adaptations. Getting old is not advantageous, but we do it anyway. Sometimes people are less than optimal and survive because it was good enough for long enough. Men going bald in their 30’s isn’t that big of an issue when most men were reproducing in their teens to 20’s and dying in their 40’s, for example. Female sexual selection doesn’t come from nothing either. Sometimes it’s for something useless to survival, which is why we have such relatively massive dicks compared to similar mammals. Hair and height are part status but even that status stems from a physical advantage. Tl;dr, baldness is not useful just because it’s common, and people probably have an instinctual aversion for a reason.
As an aside, picrel is an example of useful and attractive baldness. These were common Japanese haircuts that were popularized in the Edo period, warriors shaved their heads and put their hair in bobs to keep their helmets steady and heads cool. It ended up extending beyond utility and into mainstream fashion, as a professional and well tended haircut in this style indicated status and power.