Sexist Haircut Pricing
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Sexist Haircut Pricing
http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/27/why-do-wo ... s-6737965/ Why do women have to pay so much more for haircuts, asks this article?
The writer says that men's cut and finish was advertised as 47 pounds, while the women's cut and finish was 58 pounds, with no other categories.
Well, in my view, it's because men don't ask as much of their hairstylists, and "cut and finish" for women seems to me to mean something more extensive and demanding than "cut and finish" for men. I bet if the writer was given the men's cut and finish, she would not be satisfied that her hair was done right.
Looking at the haircuts I get vs the haircuts my wife gets, it's clear why she pays a lot more. Even just a haircut with no color and nothing special done means much more than what I get. Even with short hair, women's styles are more complex than men's styles, as far as I can tell.
The writer says that men's cut and finish was advertised as 47 pounds, while the women's cut and finish was 58 pounds, with no other categories.
Well, in my view, it's because men don't ask as much of their hairstylists, and "cut and finish" for women seems to me to mean something more extensive and demanding than "cut and finish" for men. I bet if the writer was given the men's cut and finish, she would not be satisfied that her hair was done right.
Looking at the haircuts I get vs the haircuts my wife gets, it's clear why she pays a lot more. Even just a haircut with no color and nothing special done means much more than what I get. Even with short hair, women's styles are more complex than men's styles, as far as I can tell.
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When women have their hair done they get a cup of coffee and a swanky biscuit.
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They're more likely than a man to complain to their friends about a bad haircut. So you charge them more to make up for all the lost customers...
I just made that up. Pretty good huh?
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I should probably be a talking head on a Fox "investing" program.
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They get tin foil wrapped in their hair so they can top up on their fucking mentalness. That isn't cheap.
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I think the hair salons are using a shorthand to price their cuts. I mean, they COULD just price the kinds of styles, but the result will be the same. Because a woman's "pixie cut" is definitely still going to cost more than the man's "short in the back and parted on the side." LOL
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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LOLdevogue wrote:They get tin foil wrapped in their hair so they can top up on their fucking mentalness. That isn't cheap.
My wife still can't figure out why she "has to tell me" to trim my eyebrows. My repeated statements to her that "I'm a heterosexual male born in the 1960s and I just don't care much about my eyebrows" have made some headway, but she still says, from time to time, that she "can't believe" that I don't notice it.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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£47??! I get mine cit for 4 quid by a nice young lady with a large chest who asks questions about what I've been up to as if she is really interested. Which of course she is not. The thought is nice though.
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Thank goodness your hair is so long that she can't see those strands of fuse wire sprouting from your ears.Forty Two wrote:LOLdevogue wrote:They get tin foil wrapped in their hair so they can top up on their fucking mentalness. That isn't cheap.
My wife still can't figure out why she "has to tell me" to trim my eyebrows. My repeated statements to her that "I'm a heterosexual male born in the 1960s and I just don't care much about my eyebrows" have made some headway, but she still says, from time to time, that she "can't believe" that I don't notice it.
When my daughter was about 5 she turned to me at a family dinner and asked, "Why does uncle jack have bee's legs up his nose?"
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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LOL - bee's legs.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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They'll give a dyke a man's cut and charge a man's price. That's equality.
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I've heard that the Trump cut costs $7000 a week.
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If you have to wind one strand of hair that many times around a single head, the price is going to be high.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
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Mine cost zero. About 6 times a year, Bron runs the clippers through my hair. Done.
God knows what her hairstyling costs, but it's a fuck of a lot more than zero...
God knows what her hairstyling costs, but it's a fuck of a lot more than zero...
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And they say that romance is dead.JimC wrote:Mine cost zero. About 6 times a year, Bron runs the clippers through my hair.
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