Cultural References
A pattern in androgenic alopecia (male balding) has been named after the character. Like the widow's peak, Friar Tuck has been attached to naming the final stages of balding in men. The Friars Tuck is the common pattern of a border of hair around the back of the head/neck and the sides of the head. This is attached to Friar Tuck the character due to the similar appearance of his tonsure.
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“To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance we all live in. This is no small matter, to untangle our true beliefs from what we have been taught to believe about who and what girls and women are.”
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