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* In [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''The Dispossessed'', women are ''expected'' to be bald in Urras society.
* In Classical poety, the anthropomorphic personification of a limited opportunity, especially of concepts such as Fortune and Time, is as a bald woman with only a single lock of hair on her forehead. The moral being that if you do not seize her as she approaches, there is nothing to grab her by once she's passed.
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<small>And duty--zeal and duty are not slow,</small><br />
<small>But on Occasion's forelock watchful wait</small>|<small> -- ''Paradise Regained'', [[John Milton]]</small>
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* In ''[[Deadlands]]: Hell on Earth'', all [[Psychic Powers|sykers]] are absolutely bald. Including women.
* The Tau, of [[Warhammer 40000]], are universally bald, save for a single lock at the back of their head which they typically grow [[Braids of Action|just past shoulder length]]. In the RPG books, human women sometimes are partly or fully bald, such as the Sisters Repentia.
* In ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' Thay has a custom of shaving heads - Red Wizards and everyone else with status worth a mention has a bald head and often a tattoo or several on it. This includes women, but given that anyone important from Thay is likely to be an arrogant representative of their evil magocracy and/or engaged in slave-trading <ref>there are refugees, but since they would rather not be identified on sight to begin with, they tend to abandon this tradition</ref>, the aesthetical side of their traditions rarely becomes a prominent concern.
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* The dark elves from ''[[Dungeon Keeper]] 2''. Overlaps with [[Bald of Evil]].
* In ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'', it seems to be a religious thing, maybe as an extension of the hiding-women's-hair rules of some real religions.
* Shapers in ''[[Vega Strike]]'' are a faction made up of transhuman perfectionist folk [[Designer Babies|genetically modified]] with adaptations to a wider range of environments (among other things). This includes skin pigmentation and hair, - they chose as the common part of their phenotype [[Dark-Skinned Blond]] with no hair above eyebrows ([https://sourceforge.net/p/vegastrike/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/masters/animations/load_screen.ani/Shapers.png like this]).
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