I have genuinely lost all faith in humanity after a United Kingdom tribunal judge has ruled that calling a man bald will not be categorized as sexual harassment.

Alluding to their own experience of hair loss, three members of the tribunal claimed that baldness was more prevalent in men than women and therefore argued that the use of the word “bald” is an insult related to a “protected characteristic of sex.”

In a 1995 case discussing what can be categorized as sexual harassment based on the claim of a “protected characteristic of sex,” the goal was to compare calling a man bald is the same as commenting on the size of a woman’s breast.

Published on Wednesday, the ruling was made on a case where Tony Finn was hit with the insult as he worked as an electrician for the British Bung Manufacturing Company. Tony Finn worked at the company for nearly 24 years and he was fired last year with circumstances around his firing being a part of the case.

Tony Finn claimed that he was threatened by his shift supervisor in a dispute around July 2019. During the threat, he was allegedly called a “Bald C*nt.”

“The insult is in violation against the claimant’s dignity, it created an intimidating ... environment for him, it was done for that purpose, and it related to the claimant’s sex.”

The tribunal determined.

The use of profanities was marked as not an issue, please continue calling people names, but Tony Finn was also accused of using the same language in the workplace.

“Although, as we find, industrial language was commonplace on this West Yorkshire factory floor, in our judgment Mr. King crossed the line by making remarks personal to the claimant about his appearance.” 

The tribunal claimed.