shoulda got it cut on base then
Posted on 03/12/2016 10:22:02 PM PST by blueplum
When Kendall Oliver made an online appointment for a haircut, the last thing the Army reservist who served six years in Afghanistan expected to receive was humiliation.
Oliver, who self-identifies more as a man than a woman, was turned away from The Barbershop in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
She booked the appointment online. When she came in, I told her we don’t cut women’s hair,” Richard Hernandez, the owner of The Barbershop, told Fox News Latino.
Hernandez said that Oliver made the appointment under the name of Brittany. As a member of the Church of God, Hernandez says it is against his religious believes to cut a woman’s hair.
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Fox New Latino. I’ll pay attention to their crap when they have Fox White Man. Screw them.
It is freaking hair, goes somewhere else.
Back in the day (in some states) it was illegal for barbershops to cut women’s hair because of license reasons. I don’t know if it is still true anymore
My guess is that this is like the gay wedding bakery incidents. They looked for someone who would say no. Vast, vast majority of barbers would not give a hoot.
I highly doubt this was such a surprise to her. These kinds of escapades are almost always well planned, politically timed attacks.
They are limited in what they can do, but they CAN cut a woman’s hair..within the limits of their licenses.
Some barbers actually do go to Cosmetology school and get a full license. In some places, barbers receive a lot less training than a cosmetology school. Testing at the state level for licensing is different between a barber test and a cosmetology license.
When I was in cosmetology school, one of the students was a muslim woman, and she was forbidden by her religion to cut a man’s hair, so nobody pushed her to do that.
Nobody asked her about it, I bet. This is the trumped up purple journalism.
Sometimes men make the strangest requests.
I mean... she is going around dressed like a man; unless she’d let on rather obviously that she was a she, not even her barber would know for sure.
I say blatant setup reported breathlessly with lies.
Generally a barber’s licence takes more training than other similar trades. In my state you are required to have 1000 hours of classroom instruction and 1200 hours of apprenticeship. I only know this because a friend is a barber and she doesn’t have much good to say about hairdressers.
shoulda got it cut on base then
Where I live the hairdressers and barber services are restricted by licensing. A barber can lose their license if they perform services such as giving a man’s haircut to a woman.
It’s most definitely planned. Otherwise we wouldn’t be hearing a thing about it.
She should be kicked out of the US Army Reserve for having a pierced nose and an out of reg haircut.
I seriously don’t understand the problem. In a “free” country, no one can be compelled to serve someone else. The mere fact that one opens for business should not toss out that person’s constitutionally enumerated freedoms. What is liberty if one’s freedom only extends to the front door of one’s own private, non-commercial dwelling (assuming no neighbors can hear or see anything offending, like praising God)?
So what’s the answer in this specific case? The LGBT whatever should go find someone else to cut his/her hair. There are plenty of barbers around, and getting one’s hair cut is not exactly life essential. Perhaps we could better argue for the state being involved if the person was bleeding to death while a licensed doctor stood by. That is not the case here, although some states might require licensed barbers to serve all customers without regard to sex or religion. Unfortunately for them, the US Constitution overrides state law.
I am not disputing this person’s service or locations where he/she served, but I’m having a little trouble in thinking about 6 years in Afghanistan for someone so young and a reservist. I know reserve units have been deployed there multiple times, but six years? Is this something normal nowadays?
Ask me if I care.
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