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A UK court has said calling a man "bald" is sexist. The court said using the word could break equality laws. This is because the word bald is directly related to gender. Most people who are bald are men, so it is wrong to use the word against men. This sex discrimination case came after a worker took his company to court. The boss angrily called the worker bald. The boss fired the worker. The worker won a case of unfair dismissal in the court. The judge said the word bald was harmful. He said using it was sexual harassment.
The court had to decide if 'bald' was an insult, or whether it was harassment. The boss' company said the word bald was not sexual harassment because women can be bald. They said: "In order to be related to sex, it would have to apply to that sex to the exclusion of the other sex." A court judge disagreed with the boss' company. She said that commenting on a man's baldness is the same as a man making comments about parts of a woman's body. The top judge said the word bald was related to sex because more men than women are bald.
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