Hair Crisis
And in absurd, wearying narcissism news, a new realm of human suffering has been discovered:
Well, ladies’ haircuts generally take longer. And this has to be scheduled accordingly.
They say they were told to just select one or the other.
No laughing at the back. Being a made-up cartoon character is a serious business.
Naturally, this reminder of reality had to be punished, at length, and so,
Because just, you know, getting over yourself was never an option.
And this being Canada, a precedent has been set. More rumblings of boutique victimhood, and opportunist chiselling by mentally ill men and women, will doubtless ensue.
A demonstration, were one needed, that men and women who pretend to be “non-binary,” miraculously unsexed beings – a fantasy to which you must be made to defer – may not have the best of intentions. Indeed, theirs may be a world of self-preoccupation and unrelenting spite.
Says she. Supposedly because of a haircut booking form.
Readers may wish to ponder whether putting small businesses at the mercy of the mentally ill – say, people with a history of narcissistic ‘activism’ and repeated hunger strikes, i.e., threats of self-harm – is an obvious path to utopia. And whether such indulgence and affirmation will result in a better, more caring society, or merely a twitchier and more neurotic one.
Oh yes, nearly forgot. The hair in question:
Via Mia Hughes.
Update:
And because the situation isn’t sufficiently unhinged.
Punchline.
Well, putting small businesses at the mercy of the mentally ill – people with a history of narcissistic ‘activism’ and repeated hunger strikes, i.e., threats of self-harm – doesn’t strike me as an obvious path to utopia.
We don’t become a better society because of such indulgence. Just a more neurotic, madder one.
he was asked
He said he was
I read the text and had to stop myself and mentally correct the article’s incorrect usage. I’m sure they have no choice in Canada as they, like the salon, would also be sued for wrongthink.
It’s just so tiring, and horrifying. I can’t imagine giving a toddler access to the legal system to wield it against the innocent but that’s exactly what’s happening. How many lives has that walking blivet of mental illness Jessica Ganiv immiserated?
If just booking a haircut results in you being ‘unable to work for a year and a half’, I don’t think we should be taking you seriously, sir.
My liberal friends oscillate between “Yes it is” and “It’s not happening.”
Also,
Ironies abound.
when the societal collapse finally comes, these are the first people that will freeze and starve. All we merely have to do is wait.
Surely the staff at the hair salon have only been trained to do men’s or women’s hairstyles? They likely have no idea what a “non-binary” haircut is (the fools).
You can’t sue a men’s barbershop for being unable to do women’s haircuts, and this is no different.
I recall when Canada was a serious country.
They got off easy, assuming anything out of China is accurate, at least they may not face prison. Yet.
Speaking of prison,
OK, rozzers roll up at a place called Sandringham, no one could possibly guess who that could be.
Slightly related but bearing in mind the last thread, nice totenkopf, if only there had been a clue.
And we mustn’t forget the traumatising outrage of not having one’s feet affirmed as “non-binary.”
‘She made me do it.’
From the post on the Non-Binary Shoe Crisis:
And from subsequent comments:
I’m trying to imagine what it must be like to base your entire identity on something obviously untrue and on endless, all but daily meltdowns and bitching about the self-inflicted crises that necessarily follow from that pretence, and to pointedly and habitually ignore any polite attempt to explain the errors you keep on making. As if you couldn’t hear them.
Band name. Obviously.
Orwellian name for a gang of Maoist thugs.
Speaking of gendered fashion, you rang?
Wait–are we still talking about trans loonies? Because there’s also Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al. Not to mention other identitarian psychoses.
Why some stereotypes exist.
That.
Here in the US, there are barber shops that only do men’s hair styles (ladies welcome but…) so you can get a $20 haircut that works for men in about 15 minutes. My wife has taken me to salons and amazingly the stylists cannot cut men’s hair. You might think it would be easier. So I only go to the men’s shops. Putting feezzz first is an insane way to govern.
“I was already spiralling into a huge mental health crisis… I was unable to work for a year and a half.”
I understand that state sanctioned death-by-doctor is a thing in Canuckistan, so he could spare us his trauma.
You can’t sue a men’s barbershop for being unable to do women’s haircuts, and this is no different.
Possibly, but you absolutely can sue a women’s crotch waxing salon for being unable to wax men’s balls/bollocks.
Not sure why barbershops don’t come in under so much scrutiny as the ladies’ salons. Either the cuts themselves are simple enough to be done by confused women themselves, or don’t offer any opportunity for confused women to make a stink about it.
Which makes me wonder about Mr. They/Them’s “need” for a fancy salon for a bald cut…seems he just “needed” to make a stink and grift some cash. Power trip – and it worked!
He is emulating “disabled rights” activists who make a living suing small shop owners for less than 100% compliance with deranged California “access” laws.
Regarding our allegedly downtrodden champion of righteousness:
Why, it’s almost the kind of thing one might expect from someone who’s unwell.
Gendered style: I just bought nose hair trimmers (I know TMI) brand name “Weed Wackers”–only guys would buy personal grooming with a name like that. But of course this implies that the sexes differ, so I denounce myself.
I used to have a very Star Trek nose-hair trimmer with a tiny, built-in torch. So you could really get in there and still see what you were doing.
What?
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To burn the hairs?!
Wait, England, torch means flashlight.
That’s much less exciting.
I’m now picturing a nose-hair trimmer with a tiny built-in flamethrower.
[ Checks Amazon. ]
FIFY
So is harassing hairdressers a progressive value now?
I’m 66 and Canadian and I can’t recall that time.
Hell, our longest serving Prime Minister was a spiritualist and regularly spoke to his dead mother. He led the country through the Second World War.
I’m now picturing a nose-hair trimmer with a tiny built-in flamethrower.
[ Checks Amazon. ]
There might be one with a laser, though, although possibly not for sale to the general public.
Between the Star Trek descriptor and the British English “torch” I was picturing a phaser-like instrument.
“Set phasers to depilate” doesn’t have quite the same ring, but it would be kind of neat, regardless.
“Set phasers on Brazilian”
Steve E: at least up to and including World War II they were, according to your countryman John Carter (Postcards from Barsoom), the Prussia of North America, “reactionary, traditionalist, illiberal, and martial.”
These people are seriously unwell.
When was that?
Prior to Trudeau the elder – say 1968. We showed some signs of seriousness after that, but he was the beginning of the long slide.
I give you…actually Canada gave you…the yogic flyers.
John Buchan?
Ace ‘o lanche inbound.
ccscientist: Here in the US, there are barber shops that only do men’s hair styles (ladies welcome but…) so you can get a $20 haircut that works for men in about 15 minutes.
In the ‘hood there is a woman who cuts hair in her garage. Best I’ve ever been subject to. She Will. NOT. Cut. women’s hair.