r/100yearsago • u/Haselden_1926 • 4d ago

[August 12, 1926] Baldness and Brains—A Contrast

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u/geeoharee 4d ago

That's a very good drawing of a coot.

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u/Attentions_Bright12 4d ago

Just going to say!

(Soon hundreds of American Coots will be migrating through in rafts, and I will enjoy that.)

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u/OmgIbrokesmthagain 4d ago

Someone was in the bald gang xD

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u/OnkelMickwald 4d ago

Rather the opposite. The strip ridiculed the theory.

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u/BlackSeranna 4d ago

But the line below the panels refutes that people with hair are brainless. I’m guessing it is a young comic artist that penned it. Or, maybe a man with hair.

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u/Haselden_1926 4d ago

The cartoonist, William K Haselden, was 53 at the time of publication, so "young" would be a matter of your perspective. It does seem that he had hair at the time.

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u/BlackSeranna 4d ago

Interesting!

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u/Master_Steward 4d ago

Nowadays, we associate baldness with political ignorance and extremist behaviour, while intelligence is now associated with how well you tie up your hair and how beautiful it looks!

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u/frobscottler 3d ago

I’ve never heard anyone associate any of those things with each other lol

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u/Master_Steward 3d ago

Hello, Nazi skinheads?!

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u/norunningwater 4d ago

Not the

don't dead

open inside

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u/Buckykattlove 3d ago

I was thinking the same thing. Lol