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[deleted] t1_iy7wkjh wrote

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FM_LEGENDARY t1_iy80fo4 wrote

Your mum was bald?

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Gaoler86 t1_iy8vu29 wrote

Baldness is passed down the mother's side. So whilst his mum probably wasn't bald, HER dad was.

Turns out I'm wrong. A quick Google told me that it can be passed down both sides.

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ArtyWroagh t1_iy8x1up wrote

I think that is just something people say that isn't always true, and it had me needlessly paranoid for years. My mom's dad was bald by mid 20s, but here I am with a full head of hair in my mid 30s. The rest of my male cousins on that side, all from mom's brothers, were all bald by their mid 20s. I actually have the hair of my dad's dad, down to the color and curls.

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SirDeviantRicky t1_iy95mst wrote

Genetics mostly comes down to probability. That means something can be more likely to happen but isn't guaranteed.

Let's pretend and say that a gene like that has an 80% chance to be passed down. That would mean that each person mathematically has a 4/5 chance to get it, and a 1/5 chance not to get it.

Consider yourself blessed to inherit those better hair genes!

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Tia_Mariana t1_iy971zw wrote

Me and my 3 siblings beat that probability's ass, we all have glorious hair (like dad), and our mom has very little hair since her 30-40's and her dad was bald.

The likeliness just kept going up with each child. I am now glad my mom didn't birth a fifth. We are truly TRULY blessed.

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ArtyWroagh t1_iy989ns wrote

This actually helps me. I guess I won the genetic lottery, but was always hung up on "it didn't happen to me and caused me stress to think about" and didn't take the time to think I may just be the exception, not the rule. I sincerely thank you.

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Vasevide t1_iy98l8c wrote

That’s bullshit. my whole moms side has luscious wavy hair, all my dads brothers are bald. I got that gene.

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Yakstein t1_iy98v51 wrote

I keep hearing that, but my games on my moms side died with a full head of hair. Fathers side is bald af and guess what? Sigh.

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anomthrowaway748 t1_iy82j9p wrote

Yeah I’m nothing like my dad, a lot like my mam, so I get this quite a lot tbh, helps me and my mam had a good relationship

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JCPRuckus t1_iy8ba0h wrote

>I of course, took after my mom.

To OP's point, this is how people usually refer to a son being like their mother. Though I think it's probably more likely than, "Like father, like daughter", as well.

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WhatABeautifulMess t1_iy93j8f wrote

Yeah people just use other expressions like “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”

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BUDZ_MONEY t1_iy8du6r wrote

Feel free to steal this I can't get it to post so..

Why are juniors only for men ( Bob Jr ) why do women not have something similar ( Melinda jr )

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CokeMooch t1_iy8xl9x wrote

I’m a junior! And it’s funny bc when I was in grade school the teacher asked everyone with junior in their name to raise their hands; so I did and she was like, “Mmm no, generally only boys can be juniors.” I was like okay well I’m named after my mom so wtf.

I later learned the reason but I’ve since forgotten it bc it’s some stupid sexist thing probably. I think it’s something like women generally take their husband’s name, thereby negating the “junior”, and men will always have that name. I could be wrong but it was something like that.

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mirroredmezza t1_iy93l9v wrote

yes, and it's typically not a common thing for daughters to be given the full name of their mother, I don't know why. If the girl gets married the "junior" would be negated. "Juniors" share their father's three names, so there needs to be a differentiation for legal purposes. If a girl was given her mother's full three names, would she be regarded as a "junior" until/unless she changed her name?

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frzn_dad t1_iy990jc wrote

"Needs" may not be 100% true, as in legally required. My dad and I share all three names I have never been a junior.

He left when I was 5 so it wasn't really a day to day issue growing up.

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ConduckKing t1_iy961mj wrote

If you think that's bad, in Arab countries you literally have to take your father's last name, and your middle name is always his first name.

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_Don-Corleone_ t1_iy85sp2 wrote

Nah..I hear it often..my mother is generally a better human beign than my father and that has rubbed off on me so I hear it quite often..

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Substantial_Desk_670 t1_iy8akcg wrote

In my family we hear: "two drops of water," suggesting a kid is 💯 like one of their parents. I like it because it could mean any kid, and any parent.

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MNConcerto t1_iy8achg wrote

I don't know about that, my oldest son is like a male carbon copy of me except a 9 inches taller.

It's like my hair color, texture, eyes, skin tone, facial features but masculine just copied over to him.

He just got the height from my biological father. 6'3".

I'm 5'6" dark brown hair, eyes and olive skin, husband is 5'9" blond with blue/hazel eyes and pale.

Our other 2 are a combo of us.

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zombieslayer287 t1_iy98c1v wrote

Wow a male version... thats so cool. Must be surreal

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MNConcerto t1_iy9pc4t wrote

Maybe, it made my coworker laugh once because he visited me at work and was walking behind me, so with his height his head was above my head.

She just stopped in her tracks and laughed out loud. She said it was your face but then a male version of your face floating above your head. Yep, kind of surreal.

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dukeimre t1_iy815zj wrote

Presumably 'cause of toxic gender norms! It was traditionally seen as weak and shameful for a man to have overly feminine traits, so this wouldn't have been a compliment.

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MyNameIsNonYaBizniz t1_iy81m5p wrote

We found another tool of the patriarchy!!! lets riot, storm the capitol, demand all the men apologize, lol.

/s

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dukeimre t1_iy827ce wrote

Lol.

In this case, probably the people hurt by this norm most often would be men. Like the other commenter in this thread who mentioned being told he was like his mother as an insult, by his father.

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FlatDecision t1_iy8hesy wrote

You’d be surprised how many little biases and normal everyday things are a result of one group of people historically being favored over another. It’s not a call to war to point it out lol.

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drysexlifer t1_iy8re3e wrote

I've been my mother's son my whole life. You heard it from me first lol

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TommyTuttle t1_iy8mljc wrote

This is because we don’t want to teach our sons to be kind nurturing and helpful 💁‍♂️

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AJMattWonder t1_iy8irix wrote

I say that all the time about my parent & brother my whole life, & the person I'm currently dating has experienced being told that. I guess not in movies you mean? In real life, happens a lot but yeah, you're right if that's what you mean, it's never seen on TV, perpetuating toxic masculinity at it's finest I suppose?

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addy-Bee t1_iy8pkir wrote

Toxic masculinity. A good many men would be insulted if you said "you're just like your mother" because it's "emasculating them".

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rstgrpr t1_iy8bn5f wrote

I feel like I heard this just this morning. Or maybe it was a dream. It felt like it was the tagline for a new Julianne Moore movie…

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DWright_5 t1_iy8o3lu wrote

I don’t know about the saying, but I’m a make who grew up way more like my father than my mother. She had a stronger personality and it just happened naturally.

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drppr_ t1_iy94o95 wrote

I am a mother with a son and people always say this about us.

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RCapri1 t1_iy9cfqj wrote

In my culture people will say “you took after your mother” as like a joke. Basically calling the guy a woman. My culture is very outdated lol I feel like people don’t say it as much because some people mean it as an insult. (I don’t think it is though).

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No1Likes t1_iy7werj wrote

That do be true, unless the son is gay and both mother and son suck a mad one, son.

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cscf0360 t1_iy84qvz wrote

I have no clue if my mom sucked dick as well as I do. She's dead so I can't ask her. /shrug

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