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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

It only works if you believe a Men-only barber shop is a "safe-space" in the same way that a Women-only gym is.

What the hell is an 'Un-safe-space?'

Originally Posted by 4X4

I've never been to a women only gym... Do they only have one change room? The manager of the Curves gym in the article said they'd take men if they tried to join. I wonder if they're set up for it. And I wonder how annoyed all the women would be at the attention grabbing loser dude that forced his way in.

As for this barber shop, I don't really see why they couldn't give the chick a guy's haircut. That there was a pretty good opportunity to have a sense of humour about the purpose of the business. A woman wants a man's haircut? Hook her up. If she had walked in and asked for hair extensions, then they'd easily be able to say that all they do is traditional mens haircuts.

I shake my head at people that pick these kinds of fights just to get attention, but in this case, the solution was obvious. Give her the haircut, and you win, she gets the haircut, and is totally disarmed, whether her intentions were to pick a fight, or to honestly and simply get a mens haircut.

Exactly:

"We offer a service that we are very good at, we arent very flexible because we're not good at everything, only good at a few particular things and generally only men want what we're good at but if women want it too then okay."