Hm.

Seems to be a “whack your hair” type barber.    Sure, there’s a lot of gender normativ-ism in this one, where the cuts are stuck in some 50s crewcut esque, but as the barbers claim… they’ve given them to women too, (as one barber there said “probably gay”).

Though she has other ideas, and doesn’t view the “many probably gay customers” line…

Marshall says she asked for a “No. 4 skin fade”– a style typically more popular with men – that transitions from long on top to shaved scalp on the sides. She says she stayed calm during a 15-minute go-nowhere conversation in which the barbers never asked for clarification about what she wanted and ended after she asked them if they understood the term “discrimination.’
Marshall said the barbers refused to cut her hair because she didn’t fit into their idea of what a man or a woman should look like.
In a past job, Marshall said she advocated for the homeless and disabled. In this case, she said she’s putting those skills to work for herself and others who bend gender norms.

That last line is where it gets “hardy har har”…

Marshall says she’s convinced the issue was about gender – how she looks — not her sexual orientation. By day’s end Friday, she said she’d really rather offer to teach the barbers in a daylong seminar on gender binary oppression than file a labor bureau complaint.

I’m thinking that if this customer gets her demand, and gets the haircut done in this style that this barber doesn’t bother with… fine, but then she must MUST MUST waive her right to complain about the outcome.

Meanwhile, in Kentucky, Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee are quite literally jockeying to make hay of … some judge who refuses to do her bureaucratic job.

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