My question is who decides if a hair cut conforms to gender stereotypes / norms. I somehow doubt the 1970s /1980s long shoulder length but parted and swept back blow dried hairstyles for guys would pass the test if religious conservatives get to say what is acceptable? What about women with cancer who are taking treatments for that cancer and lost their hair or are growing it back? Can the doctor be sued who prescribed the treatments? It is like trans people using the bathrooms of gender identity, who decides if that woman is feminine enough for the girl’s bathroom or that man manly enough for the boy’s bathroom? I have told everyone while the hell spawn could have any hair they wanted including long hair I was required to have a crew cut or nearly bald hairstyle as punishment for even existing in a time when everyone was wearing their hair long. What about parents rights? You know the reason all media with LGBTQ+ content must be removed from schools and all libraries, because some parents complain their kids might see it? Do the progressives or the former hippies get to allow their boy children to have long hair or their girls short hair? See how this can’t work, can’t be allowed. People lose all autonomy and individual rights to express themselves as they want to. It is again an attempt to return to the straight cis white Christian male dominated society of the 1950s. Women were subservient to men and needed their permission for most things outside the home. Raping your wife, forcing her to have sex against her will was legal as she had to perform her wifely duties. Non-white people knew their place and stayed there. The entire LGBTQ+ were hidden in their closets too frighted to be found out to demand their equality and rights. That is the world they want and are trying to create using the cover of trans people are harming the children. It is why they attacked drag queens so violently, they violate that 1950s norms. They are desperate to enforce a nearly religious observance of their preferred way to live based mostly on religion. Look at the bios of nearly every one of the republicans pushing these things and you see they are from a fundamentalist conservative religious faith that wants to control how other people live. Not to bring others closer to their godlike Rev Ed Trevors does, but to make themselves feel better about things and the idea that if they make all the people they don’t like, all the acts they don’t like to go away their god will praise them, give them an afterlife life, and their god will be so please with them he will come back right away to get them. Their god is a god of anger and smiting. He is not a loving god who loves people as they are or want to be. Hugs
Republicans in the Arkansas state legislature have introduced legislation that would make it effectively illegal for hairdressers to give gender-based haircuts to people of the opposite gender. The bill would allow the hairdressers to be sued if the haircut given does not conform with the gender assigned to a person at birth. This is reminiscent of the government-approved haircuts in North Korea, and equally as oppressive. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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“Gender-based” haircuts don’t even exist in real life. Haircuts are fashion, and utility, as illustrated by history, if people will look back to even their own favorite “golden age.” What a bunch of dumb ones! Since I didn’t sit with the video itself, I didn’t catch if the bill legislates actual styles, and denotes their “gender base?” (Many videos take too long for me.) If not, how will stylists and clients know what is permissible?
I have a hair appointment later today. Good thing it’s not till mid-afternoon, because I’m tempted to shave it, at the moment. I would hate that, though, and it would itch.🤷
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Hi Ali. They are taking the cue from Texas antiabortion laws where anyone can sue if they suspect someone got one, the person could sue and did not have to pay any costs, the person being sued had to … which is against all other lawsuits rules. Normally if you sue someone and lose you pay their costs. But the Texas law put all the costs win or lose on the defendant so to put more fear of ruin in anyone willing to help a pregnant woman get an abortion. Well that is the same with these laws. Win or lose the costs of getting sued, getting a lawyer, having to pay all the costs would ruin most of the small businesses involved including teachers. It is about regulating behavior and how people live by threatening to ruin them financially. Take their money and they lose their home, their car, everything they own … so will they help the kid questioning their gender … would they risk it? They wanted to leave it vague so people don’t chance it. Look who is governor the daughter of a lying religious leader and as his daughter / governor of the state had a professional draw Christian murals on the state side walks claiming that her little kids did it.
As for getting a short hair cut. These Christian people pushing this don’t even look at their pictures and images of their own god. He is portrayed as a white guy with a beard with long hair …. wearing a dress. Plus the founding fathers all had long hair. Short hair for men became the norm in the late 1940s / early 1950s … the very time frame they are desperately trying to return to … But I am thinking of shaving my hair on my head off. In fact I am sure I am going to do it this weekend. Ron is trying to talk me out of it. But my hair has become so thin I can’t even keep it out of my eyes or just falling around my face. I can not use most product as my skin is super sensitive to them. So as I can not have short hair as it triggers me badly with my childhood abuse, so I am thinking seriously shaving my head. I think I will. If it down’t work, well I will try to grow hair back. Hugs
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Keep the sunscreen stocked up! People forget, when they’re bald, that their heads will burn.🌞
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Also: maybe the rest of us should start using them under their laws for the same things, then. Remember the “Fashion Police” of the 80s? It was a joke, but since this has become law, well. So far, it’s everyone’s law, and with no guidelines or definition of offenses, well. They offend us mightily in so many ways, we can just file a suit under their laws, using their language. And they can pay us.
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Hi Ali. Just like bathroom bills that target women on their looks. Who looks like someone thinks a woman should look like. Well now we will see how short someone thinks a woman’s hair can be or how long a boy’s can be. And everyone has a different idea on that. It changes by area of what you live so what if you are a family and you let your boys have longer 1970 / 1980s long flowing swept back hair and you go on vacation to Disney World in Florida. So guy demands your boys have a trans hair cut. What do you do, how do you not get sued? Hugs
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Well, you don’t not get sued if a person’s going to do that instead of face-to-face bullying, but you can countersue. Certainly the first plaintiffs have questionable fashion sense! Use that law, if others are using that law.
What would be good is if nobody used that law, but there are probably people hoping for a payout. Thing is, most people don’t have enough to pay a judgment, and by no laws of which I’m aware is a human being allowed to be deprived of a living, so a person’s paycheck can only be garnisheed up to a certain percentage.
I mean-how many rich Floridians are going to get sued to begin with? However, if they should choose to sue, they can be countersued. Or simply sued because one is offended by them.
Seriously. These stupidly written laws, from people who don’t know English well enough to write law, and who also don’t think 2 seconds in advance of yesterday, just have to be used to teach people a lesson about it all. We should use the law ourselves.
Similar to jamming tattler hotlines with calls about those who would entrap humans just trying to exist. Yeah, that’s what I should have said instead of all that other stuff!😄
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Hi Ali. The problem is why tRump makes the threats to sue everyone. Why Texas made bounties against people who help a woman get an abortion. Because just the fact that you get sued means you have to get a lawyer, that means if you are lower income or living pay check to paycheck how do you afford it just to let you child dress or have the hair that they like. Second the way these laws are written even if you win you still lose because the one getting sued under these laws has to pay all the costs of both parties. The point is to create the fear of letting people be themselves or have the right to let their children express themselves as themselves. It is a way to enforce a ridged fundamentalist religious view of 1950s stereotypes on the public. Look at the reaction of some areas of the country to the change of uprising of people not willing to live by the stereotypes of hair and dress of the 1950s. Men reacted to long hair on young men and rights for women with violence. That is what they hope to bring back. It seems they feel this is the time to reverse all gains of rights for people since the 1960s. I am terrified they might win. Hugs
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There are ways around this stuff; people can follow the instructions on their papers, so they answer in time and don’t get judgment passed until a trial is had (if it goes that far.) No lawyer necessary for that, just some time.
Rich (or pseudo-rich, as in Trump,) people are scared witless of being sued, so they use threats of suing as weapons.
The reason I keep saying to countersue is, then the ones we sue have to pay costs. Courts are going to wind up telling everyone to go home and play nice, and leave the courts out of it. These laws are poorly written, which courts hate almost as much as they hate the waste of courts’s time.
I understand that the point of these laws is intimidation, also giving bullies some measure of feeling the control they crave. But there are lawful ways around it, if one keeps a cool head. One does not need to be a lawyer nor to practice law (and I emphatically am not giving legal advice in this conversation) to be able to stand up for oneself in these matters.
What we need to be concerned with and work against is their plan to intensify from letting nuts sue people to officially arresting people-say, me-for wearing jeans all the time and such. We the people need to be working to get candidates to elect who will stop this before it intensifies. After all, I’m pretty sure most who read here would like to outlaw them from making the rest of the world miserable just because they are. The difference is, we know we shouldn’t outlaw people being who they are, so they remain allowed to be miserable.
They’re wrong for wanting to force us to join them, as we would be wrong to force them to join us.
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Come for my braid. I dare you. I got out of the army fifty years and five months ago and haven’t shaved or cut my hair since. Been in a few fights for it, know just what to do …
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Hi Ten Bear. I doubt they would, they are far too afraid of even a trans kid to take on a man like you. But I have to say I had Ron cut my hair short because it got so thin it was simply unmanageable and breaking off. I have asked Ron to shave my head this morning. I think it will be better for me. Ron is worried about how it will look. But I can’t have shorter hair as it will trigger me, while the other hell spawn was allowed to have their hair anyway they liked including long for the boys … I had to have mine as a crew cut or nearly the lowest setting of the clippers. During a time when every boy in my class had long hair, shoulder length hair swept over their ears. Again the reason the abusing adopting male insisted on this was to make me humiliated in my daily life to lose any fight against my abuse. Hugs.
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Crew cuts were common, though where I was growing up not unwelcome
I let my flag fly, short guy, pure rebellion … but it’s not for everyone. It might only take a couple of minutes but it still takes a lot of work. The braid in fact protects it …
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It’s stunning how these “freedumm loving” republicans instantly go to draconian, authoritarian laws when they get the chance. North Korea laws indeed.
Here in the Terrible Sand Kingdom of Arizonastan, the Republican-controlled Lege (barely, only by a couple seats in the House and Senate) is all hot on banning ‘geo-engineering’ in the state, because, of course, chemtrails.
The kind of mind-boggling paranoiac thinking that has to go into believing that every commercial airliner is somehow equipped with huge tanks of secret chemicals and have been for years, with not one single person out of the hundreds of thousands of people involved in planning, executing and maintaining this program for every one of the 45 THOUSAND daily commercial passenger flights.
And not one single person has evr leaked the actual facts of this gargantuan conspiracy?
And this does not even start to cover the sheer implausibility of this alleged scheme. for it to work there would have to be gigatons of chemicals injected into the sky.
And not one single one of these fools will accept the actual cause of the increased visibilty of contrails: the ever steady increase of flights, and the enormous improvements in jet engine efficiency which means greater amounts of water vapor in the exhaust.
I used to argue about this nonsense with someone who is an engineer, who believed this shit.
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Hi Bruce. Wow and intelligent engineer who did not realize what the trails really are? How to become so educated and still be sucked into conspiracies easily proven wrong. As to how to accept that Freedom loving people can rationalize what is going on around them that all the rights people had both in society and legally are being torn apart? I am sure it is because low information voters found they believed lies and misinformation while being drive mostly by the fact that the tRump crew hates what they do. It is ingrained in them that the reason they are poor or working two jobs is someone is coming across the boarder taking their jobs and lower their wages. Non-whites are getting things white people should get but are denied due to the left forcing “DEIA woke” on everyone. Their children are not safe at school because the teachers are pushing LGBTQ+ books and trying to make their child accept they are gay or of a different gender … and the parent doesn’t have the time to due to work to talk with their child to understand how they feel. They know their kids are normal as they are, as they have taught them to be, the idea that they couldn’t know their child has to be something the teachers are doing behind their back. It is all the fault of …. those people. Thanks for the comment. Hugs
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okay…these dorks manage to pass this piece of flotsom and I’m shaving my head.
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Hello Suze. You have been a wonderful resource for us. I had a comment I abandoned in another tab about Ron’s issue. Please let me answer here. His neurologist now wants him to see a neuropsychologist. Here is the report from the MRI. Cognitive changes, dementia, monoclonal antibody therapy. Ron denies it all. The doctor had wanted him to see a neuropsychologist and he was going to refuse until I showed him this. He thought the MRI cleared him … today is the first time I looked at it. Yes the rest of it seems great to laymen it shows him totally clean … Unless you read the first line. Cognitive changes, dementia, monoclonal antibody therapy. We have no idea why they mention monoclonal antibody therapy because Ron never had that. Suze is there something we are misunderstanding. Should he make and keep that appointment? The last few days he has seemed really spot on? Hugs
Oh and on shaving your head. I have been begging Ron to shave mind for weeks. He said this weekend. Hugs
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MAT (the monoclonal antibody therapy) is an early therapy for dementia. He needs to discuss the therapies available to Ron for his continued well being. The cognitive changews remark FIRST shows this is the major symptom, the word dementia coming second means this is the tentative diagnosis for the first symptom…and the MAT is the most positive therapy for treatment. Yes, keep that appointment. Early dementia has ups and downs, and a person can be fine for days to weeks then suddenly the symptoms come roaring back worse than before.
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Hi Suze. Oh Ron showed me the note he got a note from the doctor. The doctor wrote that there was no urgent need for action and they would discuss what the MRI showed in the follow up visit. So I guess it is not that bad. I still wonder if it is not his heart. When mine goes too high I struggle to breathe and Ron’s heart runs around the mid 50s but in the morning is 50 or lower into the low 40s. I have begged him to take to his primary to get a cardiologist. He is being stubborn. Hugs
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