The Oscars were this week, and as usual I took the day off to judge the red carpet looks from my tracksuit pants-ed position on the couch, pick apart the monologue (love you Conan), declare I could write better presenter segments, and keep an eye on social media to see which stars cause the most buzz.

This year, I noticed something interesting: in a room full of classically handsome stars such as Chris Evans and Michael B Jordan, as well as newly minted hotties like Heated Rivalry’s Hudson Williams, I was reading many appreciative and deeply thirsty tweets about … bald 75-year-old Ed Harris.

There was a focus on Ed because his wife, Amy Madigan, won an Oscar and his reaction was lovely, but a lot of what I saw was about how hot he looked. He has, of course, been handsome forever, sporting sharp cheekbones and piercing blue eyes. He has also been at some stage of balding for his entire career, something that has never once stopped him being considered sexy.

The Ed praise brought to mind the discourse around male hair loss, something I have been thinking about for a while. I am not a man, I am not a balding man, and I am not romantically interested in men. I have a complicated relationship with many straight men, because they have a complicated relationship to me being a fat woman. However,........

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