Inadmissible Hair
Or, Not Neurotic Enough.
From Vancouver, via Alex Zoltan, an attempt to attend a “2SLGBTIAQ+-friendly” outdoor theatre is derailed by some cultural-sensitivity complications:
A woman in Vancouver was denied access to a “2SLGBTIAQ+-friendly” outdoor theatre because her hair violated the venue’s “Code of Conduct Cultural Appropriation policy.” pic.twitter.com/reB5DbDtL1
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) August 15, 2025
You see, madam’s hair – or rather, her woollen hair extension – violates the venue’s “Code of Conduct Cultural Appropriation Policy.”
Which is a thing, apparently.
Readers may not be entirely surprised to learn that the list of terms and conditions is somewhat extensive and includes both pre-emptive scolding that is nebulous and therefore open to interpretation by those so inclined:
And pre-emptive scolding that is more particular:
Because pronoun policing is the basis of every good night out. And with regard to madam’s supposedly scandalous hair:
That’s the non-consensual wearing of your own clothes and hair.
You see,
We’re talking, you’ll recall, about a trip to a “2SLGBTIAQ+-friendly” outdoor theatre. In the hope of a jolly time.
We’re also informed, sternly, that people of pallor do not experience,
And that,
Again, at a venue where luridly cross-dressing men can pretend to be women and must always be addressed with their fabulist pronouns.
In short, attendees must,
Those forever downtrodden magic brown people.
And transvestites.
I feel I should point out that the interaction filmed above goes on for nine minutes. You may wish to have a fortifying beverage to hand.
Or something to bite down on.
The complications of progressive fun times – specifically, what can only be referred to as ideological dancing – have been mentioned here before.
Update, via the comments:
Liz adds,
There is that. But if we start listing the things our Enforcers Of Purity don’t know, and the things they choose not to know, and the things they think they know but which are wildly incorrect, I suspect we’ll be here all day. And any interest in history, or in reality in general, seems likely to be subordinate to the neurotic, wearying drama that they wish to inflict on others.
Not unreasonably, Chow Bag asks,
Well, indeed. And likewise, if you’re obliged to continually “uplift, celebrate and hold sacred those most marginalised among us,” while fretting about pronouns and privilege and “how you take up space,” and while fretting about police brutality and “intergenerational trauma” and the sacredness of other people’s hairstyles… well, that may leave little time for watching the actual show. Which, I seem to recall, was the purpose of the visit.
But poking at the implications of their rules of admission almost certainly makes you a white supremacist and so you’re not allowed in.
Lest you contaminate The Purity.
So the “migrant” wasn’t merely “in her mother’s flat”.
“Getting medieval” seems less outrageous with each passing day.
I don’t know…I have suggested to white leftists, upon being called raaaaycisss for the umpteen millionth time that I would be happy to let one PoC into the US if I had the power to vet them and then also be able to toss two or three white AWFLs or similar white devil commies out. Preferably to Venezuela, North Korea, Chi-na, or virtually anywhere in Africa. Anywhere outside the US at a minimum. I have yet to hear back from any of them.
Pretty sure “you can’t come in because you are white and we don’t allow white people in with that hair adornment” is illegal in both BC and Washington State so whichever Vancouver this is that venue is breaking laws against racism..
Third world driver murders three in Florida.
Betcha there are “questions” about his certification to drive in America.
But I only have one question: Should he be executed? Or executed slowly?
Printed article here.
I’ve been seeing occasional posts online about third world truck drivers who cannot read English, do not understand road signs, don’t know the law, and don’t care. “Fuck those gringos and their laws designed to oppress the brown man!”
The catecism for progs is (repeat after me):
We hate:
whites
boobs
families
peace
manly men
pretty things
making money
We unquestionably support:
murderers
terrorists
corrupt pols
So . . . is the New York Times endorsing originalism?
We were the first generation to be told insistently that nationalism is intrinsically bad. Everybody is the same under the skin. Violence is never the answer. All cultural values are relative. Racism is the worst possible thing. You must love even people who hate you. And so on, and so on…
Heinlein was noticing this at least as far back as the 50’s.
Cases like this make me absolutely crazy. There was no reason for the driver to think he could randomly hang a U-turn safely. There was no reason for him to attempt a U-turn in the first place. (If you miss your exit, take the next one, then get back on the freeway going the other direction).
But in many countries the traffic laws are basically Calvinball, and everyone operates under the assumption that the other guy is insane, so they adapt accordingly.
But look at his face when the car plows under his trailer: no expression. No reaction at all. Not even annoyance.
Effing sociopath.
Looks like Harjinder Singh has been charged with 3 counts of vehicular homicide. He’s also here illegally, so ICE has issued an immigration detainer for Singh under the 287(g) program, and he is facing immigration violations as well.
A Sikh, no less. I thought they were supposed to be good guys.
Betcha there are “questions” about his certification to drive in America.
Obvious followup questions and explorations into the broader context and background. Media incurious, so Youtube trucking channels trying to do the job here and here.
How do they propose to check if someone has “genuine, meaningful relationships” with their hair and clothes?
And likewise, if you’re obliged to continually “uplift, celebrate and hold sacred those most marginalised among us,” while fretting about pronouns and privilege and “how you take up space,” and while fretting about police brutality and “intergenerational trauma,” and the sacredness of other people’s hairstyles… well, that may leave little time for watching the actual show. Which, I believe, was the purpose of the visit.
But poking at the implications of their rules of admission almost certainly makes you a white supremacist and so you’re not allowed in.
Lest you contaminate The Purity.
[ Post updated. ]
And on the subject of “cultural appropriation,” this came to mind:
Again, an impervious doltishness.
They just like writing rules.
Right, I’m heading out into the countryside for a pub lunch.
Play nicely. Use coasters.
Agree in the modern era technology sense. Especially as the passenger was holding a cell phone. Reading the article where it mentions it happening northbound near MM 17 near Ft. Pierce rang a bell with me. I checked the Florida Turnpike exit lists and that indeed falls within that very long stretch of the Turnpike from exit 152 to 193 of approximately 40 miles without an exit. It often occurred to me that if someone missed their exit they were screwed. There is a service plaza at MM 184 where I think you could go in the northbound side and go out the southbound side, something that wasn’t possible before they redesigned those things a few years ago. Not excusing their making such a stupid and risky move, just pointing out the circumstances.
Illegal immigrant means more questions about how he was allowed to drive trucks.
Regardless, I don’t want him deported; I want his corpse deported.
“illegally entered the U.S. in 2018 and obtained a California CDL…”
We can blame liberals and companies that profit from illegal immigration.
Doing the murders that Americans won’t do, to paraphrase a cliche.
Thank you!
I seem to recall the adoption of ‘international’ traffic signage was to improve safety by ensuring wider understanding.
I recall with absolute certainty. But no signage helps when the drivers don’t care.
I suspect that we will eventually learn that he’s employed by a “dodgy” company whose owners should also be taken out and hanged.
Heh. What…does…..a….flashing…yellllllow….aaarrrrow mean?
The first link provided by @lak provides some information about the company.
In New York State, they banned the laying of more gas pipelines years ago and are now complaining about the utilities “refusing to hook people up to gas”. Oh, those evil utility companies. They favor provably impossible things and then complain.
We lunched good and hard, since you ask. Had to decline the offer of dessert, however, due to the non-trivial risk of explosion.
Indeed. Which is why they collectively get a big NOPE from me. I will hold no human sacred. And I don’t have the bandwidth to fret about pronouns or hairstyles or any of the other shallow minutiae with which these vapid people fill their time.
Oh and *Ping* btw. Having had yet another site I read make comments (to read!) members only, and other sites gone mostly subscription only, I figure I had better support my favorite while i still can. I wish I had the resources to subscribe to all these others, but I don’t. Thank you David.
Bless you, madam. May your otherwise agreeable shopping trip not be soured slightly by the store’s expectation that you, the paying customer, should be happy to have no choice but to scan your own purchases and bag them. As if that 30 seconds of human interaction, that closing gesture, was just too much to ask.
The comments are, for me, what brings this blog to life, and they’re often a source of new posts and general inspiration – and I do like to think there’s a sense of community here – so no fear of that.
A sentiment I wholeheartedly endorse. It is what keeps this place here.
He’s got a point.
Public admiration = hate.
So nice!
Pol Pot went to engineering school as well. Engineers are notoriously bad at people skills. Lawyers kinda the opposite. In most cases this makes lawyers more dangerous. Mostly.
If this is real, it’s a good example of a mother improperly enmeshing with her son.
Which actually is a form of abuse.
For the sake of all involved let us hope not.
This is Canada. We have no protections from our government, no guarantees of free speech, and “no whiteys allowed” is absolutely legal, both de jure and de facto.
For those of you here from Kate’s place, please, for the love of God I beg you – get out while you still can. There’s already a massive exit tax; don’t wait until it reaches 100%.
< glares in Air India Flight 182 >
There’s an extremely militant Sikh independence movement that has had active cells in Canada since the 1980s. The former head of the (once) third largest political party in Canada had active connections to that movement until the most recent election.
I hate self-checkout, especially in department stores. And now they’ve installed the machines everywhere they’ve realised most customers prefer actual staff… They could’ve asked us and saved a lot of trouble.
It is, I think, a pretty good example of not reading the room.
To clarify, it’s not that I object to the option of self-checkout, which will suit some customers and be useful in some contexts. It’s the conceit that there’s no need for, or expectation of, any other option. The conceit that it should be the default, everywhere, and that if customers would rather not use it, then the problem is the customer.
And so you see people standing in vain at the PLEASE PAY HERE desk, holding armfuls of clothes or whatever, waiting for assistance that will never come, and little old ladies looking at the self-checkout devices with something close to bewildered terror. And then there are the items that won’t scan, or some other malfunction.
It feels like some vague insult. “You’ve picked your stuff, now bag it and go.”
Discourse was attempted.
Readers may detect certain… ironies.
Among which, a rude, abrasive woman interrupting a polite interview of which she isn’t part, before insulting the interviewer and accusing him of being aggressive and lacking social skills.
Lefties project.
The fact that California allows illegals to get not just drivers licenses but commercial drivers licenses, is enough to condemn California liberals as stupid and depraved.
Pranksters who need to be kicked in the balls until they are sterile.
We could even make it into a TV show
Heh. Following the Discourse was attempted video, at least on my feed…Jamie Lee Curtis got her guns out. Or, whatever.
It also seems fairly stupid what with the decline of societal trust: ‘Theft is on the increase so let us make it easier.’
Quite. So now in certain otherwise agreeable department stores you can find a burly chap watching you use the self-checkout scanners, presumably to ensure you’re not nicking anything, but no-one to actually do the scanning and bagging for you, which was much nicer for the customer, while making last-minute thievery all but impossible.