Baldness Isn’t Just Physical

It’s also performative

Tucker Lieberman
6 min readJun 17, 2022

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A bearded man wears a button-down shirt with floral embroidery. He’s playing a banjo and is wearing a large hat, so you can’t tell if he’s bald.
Image by Ryan McGuire from Pixabay

The type of discussion we call “philosophy” has always been about making conceptual distinctions. Words, generally, distinguish one thing from another. At least, they sure try. But many distinctions are feats of imagination, and it’s hard to know where to “draw the line,” so to speak. This keeps philosophers busy.

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Tucker Lieberman

Editor for Prism & Pen. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." https://tuckerlieberman.com/