Snippet from the article:
TV presenter Gail Porter has tweeted her shock after a man accosted her on a London street, calling her “baldy.”
The Scottish personality has alopecia which has left her suffering from severe hair loss and she has spent years campaigning to increase awareness of the condition.
Porter tweeted to describe the incident which she said left her in tears near her London home
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Most of us in the US are probably not familiar with Ms. Porter, but she is a former pin-up model and currently a television presenter in the UK that has campaigned for alopecia awareness since her hair began falling out after discovering she had alopecia totalis in 2005. I suppose the silver lining of this incident is that it brought her story back into the news, thus hopefully raising further awareness.
Sad story.
But it’s funny how women do this every day to men, call them baldy and worse, yet nothing is said of it.
Lots of men call other men baldy. I think using an abusive incident to make a generalised comment is pretty poor taste.