I'm not even a dyke and have to deal with this. Worst part - when I go to get my hair cut, I have them cut it with clippers. They charge men less for buzz cuts.
They always charge me the "ladies" price. At the barbershop, men's haircuts are $16 - ladies are $20.
At the salon, men's cuts are $25, ladies are $45.
CLIPPERS. And I have an afro. They don't even have to DO anything.
ARGH. So, yeah. Is it ok if this not-dyke lady goes to the dyke barber, because I sure as hell would prefer it over this crap!
Darn, there don't seem to be any Floyd's 99 barbershops in New York. I went to the one in Denver for my femme lady cuts for years because they were reasonably priced, but also because they treated my butch lady friends well and gave them razor cuts at the same prices as men. Plus they used those back-of-the-hand vibrators to give you a shoulder and scalp massage after!
I can only vouch for the two Denver locations I frequented, but they were both extremely satisfactory. (I hate salons. I hate my hair. I hate hairstyles and haircuts and hair maintenance and hair everything. I went to Floyd's because I figured at least I could hate things while listening to good music. How I miss them, though I will say that my Chinese stylist in Oakland, Joyce, is a pip and makes things sort of tolerable.)
I"m nearly certain that that type of price differential is actually illegal in New York because I vaguely remember when they passed the law. Not that you necessarily want to have that fight.
And yeah, totally. I mean, ideally this whole thing would stop being evil for everyone who doesn't want Jennifer Aniston's haircut.
That is an impressive pile of bullshit. I was just thinking how lucky I was that my local cheap barbershops were clueful. I didn't realize how rare that was.
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Date: 2011-03-05 01:58 am (UTC)They always charge me the "ladies" price. At the barbershop, men's haircuts are $16 - ladies are $20.
At the salon, men's cuts are $25, ladies are $45.
CLIPPERS. And I have an afro. They don't even have to DO anything.
ARGH. So, yeah. Is it ok if this not-dyke lady goes to the dyke barber, because I sure as hell would prefer it over this crap!
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Date: 2011-03-05 02:43 am (UTC)And yeah, totally. I mean, ideally this whole thing would stop being evil for everyone who doesn't want Jennifer Aniston's haircut.
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