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Michigan finds hair salon owner violated the law by directing trans people to pet groomers (www.advocate.com)
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[–] 143 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Goddammit, you're supposed to send furries to the pet groomers. Trans people go to Aamco... For a trans mission.

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    • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    In before SCOTUS rules that the founding fathers definitely meant to let hairstylists refuse service to people and send them to pet groomers

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    So we can finally send MAGA to sheep farm for shearing.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    They’ve already been fleeced.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Yes, but not hard enough for them tolearn the lesson… For once, they shall be taught as they wish others to be taught to the beating should continue until they learn or go extinct

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    I can't imagine simultaneously thinking of people as sheep and being disappointed in how sheeplike they act. Like, my brother in Christ, it is you who is characterizing them as sheep, and those things are bred to be okay with being fleeced. Find a better metaphor.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I can't imagine simultaneously thinking of people as sheep and being disappointed in how sheeplike they act.

    But that's the whole point. We are disappointed in them for acting sheeplike, for letting someone fleece them instead of thinking more critically. They are humans and should know better.

    Either way, I don't think sheep should be exploited.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    If you call them sheep and talk endless shit about them then you should expect nothing less from them.

    A better metaphor would one of a lion, chained and humiliated, robbed of its strength, made to believe it's a lowly sheep. This whole sheeple thing is petty and vindictive to the point of being counterproductive.

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    • [–] 60 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Ain't no way this random salon owner can duly comply with the rightful decision from that board and still keep their business going. May the 'Finding Out' ring loud and true, for once.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Won't the likely just phoenix the company?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    You still need clients.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Plenty of bigots will flock to them. They'll probably end up with more business than before.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    A bunch of obnoxious assholes who don't tip?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Bigots tip other bigots. They also give them a ton of business.

    Remember when Chik-fil-A got caught giving money to organizations trying to have all gay people in Africa killed? Conservatives did a huge nationwide "Buycott" and gave them more money than they lost in the boycott.

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    • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Huh. I used to use the laundromat a few doors down. There are some great places in traverse City that we can go to anyway. We've got a good trans/LGBT in general Community there. And we give each other business recommendations. Granted, I never got a haircut there but I'm trying to get more hair.

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    [–] 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Why is it so hard for conservative bigots to behave like adults?

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    • [–] 93 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    “If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman..."

    Do these idiots think all trans people are non-binary? Transphobes are seriously the dumbest motherfuckers I swear.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago*

    Do these idiots think all trans people are non-binary?

    Yes, because the media they consume isn't about educating them, it's about ensuring they'll be a piece of shit to whatever target they're told to hate. The specifics aren't part of the direction, in fact it's about muddying the waters as much as possible. They targeted the Epstein Files so much that a chunk of MAGA even started to turn against their handlers because of it. Not nearly enough of them, but enough that they're dealing with internal fighting about it. Those Epstein waters weren't muddy enough.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    As a binary woman, hell no, I ain't going there.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Good praxis to avoid any kind of TERF or bigot in th9se industries because i swear theyre always the salon owners or stylists who will give you shitty sexisy unsolicited opinions on your aesthetic and will alienate their clients and end up burning out because people who arent also assholes dont like that

    Like ive met these people and the bigotry is never in a vaccuum without other dogshit opinions AND its just stupid as a business owner to turn away a paying customer.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I worry about getting a shit haircut from a stylist who gives me one on purpose.

    I guess it’s why I haven’t been to a salon in a long, long time, even though I could benefit from it.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    I promise you a good stylist worth their salt would be devastated to give you a bad haircut even just accidentally... we WANT people to like our work, we want you to come back. Your hair looking good is our portfolio and word of mouth is our bread and butter. Plus a shitload of us are LGBTQ+ or allies anyways... hair is hair is hair regardless of who it is on and we are in the business of affirmation

    For the record open invitation to anyone here if they want to send advice requests or ask if a style will suit them. A lot of us get into this business because making you feel good makes us feel good. Nothing makes me happier than knowing i made someone feel good about themselves.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    They think that having a dick means your identity is a man, so if you then say "I identify as a woman" you're really saying you're both.

    Until recently, gender has not been primarily about self-identity for a long time (at least in Western culture, I don't want to overgeneralise) so this kind of thinking isn't that surprising.

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    • [+] 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Sadly, she may also pickup more business from bigots like herself who want to support her stand.

    I hope not, though.

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    • [–] 90 points 3 months ago

    The commission ordered the post and similar messages removed in July, finding that they violated the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which was expanded in 2023 to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or expression.

    Well done Michigan. 👍
    Unfortunately this is not a federal law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott-Larsen_Civil_Rights_Act

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    [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    . . . Wow. What a piece of shit.

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    [–] 21 points 3 months ago*

    I thought this was saying that trans people went to the salon and the salon asked that the trans people pet the salon workers who groom peoples hair...

    I like my version better :(

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    [–] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Am I a bad person when my first thought when I read the title was that this hilarious? Imagine you get directed to another parlour, drive over there and see it's a pet groomer. I would just laugh at how cartoonishly evil that was. It's like me going to a therapist and he directs me to an euthanasia clinic. I'd think that would just be funny, and since I'm already there can't hurt to check it out.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah hopefully people would feel that way. But thinking about it more some of these people are probably pretty sensitive about their bodies and how they look already. I think I would feel hurt or humiliated. Those aren't nice feelings. But that's just how the world is. Some people are just shitty and it sucks

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    • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Good. Send them to training. Better than sending people to jail, probably. Can we send people to therapy too?

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