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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
Nobody at all is saying they should put up with harassment. I do believe they are entitled to it which is why I am mostly arguing that the barber is also entitled to cut men's hair only. My argument is you can't have it both ways. Have your Women's gym and then complain about a barber shop who only does men's hair. The guy cutting hair is not sexist, he just doesn't know how/or doesn't want to cut a women's hair. A women's hair takes much longer or might need prolonged use of scissors which barbers try to minimize the use of.
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You need to quit repeating these two things as if their facts.
And, no, the barber is not entitled to cut men's hair only. It's against the law, as photon has pointed out many times. The reason it's against the law is because there was a time when arbitrary discrimination was allowed, and it was pretty unpleasant for anyone who wasn't a white, straight man. Now if this man wasn't comfortable cutting this woman's hair because of technical expertise, then it's reasonable for him to say so, but there's no evidence that that's what happened here. It sounds, from the article (and this is only one side), that he refused to cut her hair solely on the basis of her gender, which again, is illegal.