Hey, all dudes, do me a quick favor. Reach around to your back and root around in that thorny-briar patch of ape fur. Pretty gross right? Now touch your head and your girl's head at the same time. Notice anything different, like, say, a few ten thousand more hairs in an infinitely more complexly designed pattern? How about this, stick your meat hooks up around the vicinity of your looking holes. Jagged mess of cuticle meat and half-chewed hang nails I'm guessing? Now look back to your girl's. Clean and pretty and shiny. Now ask her to scratch those nails on your back. Come on, what's the big deal. Just do it for a minute, it feels good. OK fine, just forget it, I'll use this tree branch here like a goddamned bear.
The point is, men and women are different in a few ways: women have more hair on their heads than we do, and their hands don't look like they just got done playing guitar and chopping lumber for ten thousand years inside a wood chipper. Who knows this? Everyone knows this. Salons know this, which is why it costs more for a woman to get her haircut than a man, and it costs more for a man to get a waxing or a manicure than it does a woman. Everyone besides nanny-state New York City officials know this apparently. THANKS A LOT GIULIANI.
The Wall Street Journal reports today that the city is cracking down on this serious problem of discrimination, fining salons for gender-based pricing differences.
The salons are among 138 businesses that have been hit this year for violating a little-known provision that has many pulling their hair: gender-pricing discrimination. The majority of violations so far this year—103—were issued to salons and barbershops.
"It's ridiculous. I have some guys who need to come in every two weeks," said Ania Siemieniaka, the owner of Freckle Skin and Hair, which had to pay $175 for a violation. "If I raise my prices, I'll lose all my male customers."
The city's Department of Consumer Affairs began stepping up enforcement of the law last year, when it issued 580 gender-pricing violations to businesses, more than double the 212 doled out the year before.
"This is a very basic consumer-protection law and it is also a very basic civil-rights law," says the department's department's commissioner, Jonathan Mintz, pictured above middle, who obviously pays zero dollars to keep that dome trimmed and therefor has no idea, or at least has long since forgotten, how annoying it is for a man who gets frequent haircuts to pay $30+ for what amounts to about ten minutes of work every other week. Do you have any idea what sort of mystical science goes into cutting a woman's hair? Like watching a crew pit change the tires at a Dale Earnhardt race. I don't understand all of the specific science behind it, but based on how seriously they take that business, and how often they end up being upset after it, I'd say the liability insurance for post-haircut based violence justifies it.
Meanwhile:
Ben Duon, the manager at Kim's Holly Salon, said the business received a $300 violation for charging men $2 more for manicures.
"It cannot be the same. It's much more work to do the men," he said. "Most men, they need a good cleaning. They're contractors, you need to do a lot of work on their nails."
Right? Although I'm not sure how many contractors are getting manicures, but that's not the point. It's about fairness. Well, not fairness, but logic. Then again, as a liberal who's inclined to see gender discrimination evened out, I recognize that men have long been paid more for doing the same work as women, so maybe affirmative hair action like this is some sort of back door compensation.Truly, we have come a long way.
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Wait what the fuck is this? They want to raise prices? Why don't they lower them for women? This whole thing is stupid. I didn't read this whole thing. Sorry, I usually do.
Men and women's prices should be the same, I guess is what they're trying to enforce here. Guess on whether or not that means salons will end up lowering women's prices to meet men's or vice versa?
"a man who gets frequent haircuts"? Therein (there in?) lies the problem. Do it yourself at home. Keep it military. Grade 1 all over 4 lyfe.
I agree this is ridiculous though. What's next? Baby clothes can't be cheaper than adult clothes because that's discrimination against adults? Political correctness gone mad etc
Yeah. I really could do my cut myself, but I like the whole process. Like the feeling of getting my beard trimmed and head washed.
In Nicaragua I had a shave in a barbershop with a cutthroat razor. Dude squirted me with lime juice after and polished my face. Best grooming/pampering experience I've ever had. (And I think the only pampering/grooming experience I've had. Still great though.)
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