Woman asked to leave barber shop b/c it has a 'no girlfriend or wives policy.' Owner tells ABC news, "We want guys to be able to come in here and be guys and not have to worry what they say or what they talk about because there's a lady present."

Lion_amongst_gods · 2020-02-17T12:56:11+00:00

There are salons and parlours in the countries that I've lived in, where only women are allowed. Even fathers of small girls had to wait outside (while the girls got their haircuts). So, it's not an outlandish idea.

Tmomp · 2020-02-17T13:57:52+00:00

I searched "female only salon Oklahoma" and the first response said

WHY A CLUB FOR WOMEN ONLY ? Not a fashion show Not a singles bar Just a place for women to work out with other women. No matter what shape you're in now, we can provide a relaxed non-threatening place to become your best. Bright, Airy, Comfortable. Elite- designed for women who want more from their workout.

Actually, first I typed "women only salon Chicago" since the url said Chicago. The first response was

Best 30 Women Only Hair Salon in Chicago, IL with Reviews ...

If the woman interviewed wanted to reduce people being treated as she says she was, she might want to start with these dozens of places that have been operating longer. But then, do we believe her goal was equality?

jonflip_ms · 2020-02-17T12:40:11+00:00

There was a national uproar in Portugal, when a barbershop in Lisbon forbade women to go inside, but allowed dogs. Same principle as here. "We want men to be able to talk about anything." Women actually invaded said barbershop and the City Hall received a formal complaint in order to get the barbershop closed.

source: https://observador.pt/2015/03/04/na-barbearia-figaros-mulheres-nao-entram-e-isso-tornou-se-uma-questao-politica/

mewacketergi · 2020-02-17T13:03:32+00:00

It's kind of funny that this makes headlines, but women-only spaces are a-okay.

lozinski · 2020-02-17T13:10:48+00:00

Would someone please add this barbar shop to the map of organizations supoprting Men's Rights.

https://Rights.men

Are there any other male safe spaces out there?

hectorduenas86 · 2020-02-17T11:25:03+00:00

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Minsc_and_Boo_ · 2020-02-17T13:45:23+00:00

Havent there women-only businesses and gyms in the US for decades?

phoenix335 · 2020-02-17T13:22:48+00:00

1900s feminism: "You must allow women into schools and universities, it is unbearable to exclude half the population from education and opportunities of society. If this exclusion would be continued, the impact on the lives, rights and wealth of women would be enormous"

2020s feminism: "You must allow women into the last tiny men's only space that exist, the barbershop, despite women not being the customers and the impact on the lives, rights, wealth of women is non-existent."

HNutz · 2020-02-17T13:24:50+00:00

You think they see a problem with women-only gyms?

BrandonCole84 · 2020-02-17T11:41:52+00:00

I don't think so this is too barbaric. Seems good for men who are fed up of being around the opposite gender.

2020-02-17T14:57:13+00:00

One rule for thee, another for me!

Feminists are all over ensuring women have female-only spaces, but can't stand the idea of male-only spaces. Good for this barber shop.

Gutotito · 2020-02-17T16:00:25+00:00

ABC Owned Stations reporting found no specific examples of women-only hair salons in New York City

Because they didn't want to. Even my city has one, and I live in Bumfuck, Tennessee.

FatGimp · 2020-02-17T13:20:36+00:00

There was a barber in my town that had topless fridays, was a good barber until some blokes wife became a stick in the mud. And no they weren't hairy bastards topless, just the female variety.

xCAPTAINxTEXASx · 2020-02-17T15:26:41+00:00

Hey lady, it’s not meant to be cute. You were respectfully asked to leave because of a store’s policy, and any consumer driven business has a right to refuse service to anyone. You want equality? You have women’s only salons, we have men’s only barbershops. There’s your equality.

MilManShow · 2020-02-17T13:48:32+00:00

Lets all post up in the beauty shop. You know the Hen House.. Where get together to plot the crimes against men.

RobBanana · 2020-02-17T14:39:02+00:00

What the fuck? Aren't there women-only hairshops all around the world?

FormedBoredom · 2020-02-17T15:38:05+00:00

There's endless women only spaces, but a fucking barber shop of all things just for men triggers these women?

jinladen040 · 2020-02-17T13:48:42+00:00

Anyone know if there's actually any women's only salons as the article mentions they couldn't find any but I kind of feel like that isn't true because we are all aware of a few double standards between women and men.

NekoiNemo · 2020-02-17T14:38:59+00:00

I mean... Female-only establishments are a thing for awhile, and nobody seem to mind, so what's the issue here? Other than the obvious one: not wanting to give men any freedoms?

fogoticus · 2020-02-17T16:13:56+00:00

What I got from this: Women can have all the secrets they want while men should "behave".

Mindraker · 2020-02-17T16:36:59+00:00

I would take this as a business opportunity. I would team up with a local women's salon. The salon would provide advertisements and discounts for the men's barber shop, and vice versa.

Example: "Show this receipt at King's Kuts for $5 off of your husband's haircut."

falls_asleep_reading · 2020-02-17T19:51:04+00:00

The misandry of postmodern feminism will tell you that women need women's only spaces, but that men shouldn't be permitted to have male-only spaces because "men bad."

Apparently, sexism is okay when it's women being sexist.

coats125 · 2020-02-17T13:32:03+00:00

So minority groups can have "safe spaces" but males can't have one? There is literally a safe space room in my college student center right now.

Kahmael · 2020-02-17T15:50:16+00:00

There's a 'men only' spa in denver. It's a gay spa for gay men, we found out when my g/f tried to book a slot for us.

Plisken999 · 2020-02-17T17:38:54+00:00

So... Theres a women only gym next to my place.

Im pretty sure they wont let me in even if I am with a lady friend.

ColomarOlivia · 2020-02-17T18:38:52+00:00

I’m female and once I went to this waxing salon and there was a woman with her husband. I remember I felt kinda awkward when I had to inform the receptionist about what I had scheduled. “Yea yea, full vulva and perianal waxing!”, right next to a male stranger who was next to his wife. Also, other women didn’t seem very comfortable because gossiping and intimate subjects usually come up in beauty and waxing salons, including sex and men. Just as I enjoy a women-only place I don’t see anything wrong about men having the same right. Men also need privacy and time for their own. It’s almost like if being a man and wanting to feel comfortable and pampered was a crime or that men are/should be so tough and rough they can’t even have a need for feeling comfortable and pampered at all.

just_chattinghidden · 2020-02-18T00:40:38+00:00

I am a female and I was a hairstylist. I love this idea. I worked at great clips and we had a older couple the man was getting his hair cut. As he was telling me how he wanted it she would tell me to do it a different way. I cut it his way and she was telling me to cut more even though he liked the length. I eventually told her she would have to go to the waiting area only clients was allowed at the salon chairs she was mad but didn’t have a choice.

CommitXylenePerverts · 2020-02-17T17:31:07+00:00

Curves should be shut down. There are female only co-working cubicle rental clubs, as well.

drmode2000 · 2020-02-17T19:57:27+00:00

And how many Women only places are there.

rabel111 · 2020-02-17T22:41:18+00:00

This is just another way that feminists are trying to silence men and control any dialogue about, around or arising from masculinity/maleness.

Being a control freak is not a human right. Being excluded from a barber shop doesn't disadvantage women. It's all about control and power, nasty minded feminists trying to force their ideology on men.

-WolfChop- · 2020-02-18T01:16:16+00:00

I mean, I think it’s dumb af. But there are women only places so I don’t really see the problem even though I think it’s all dumb.

Derek_Carr_is_Savior · 2020-02-17T14:53:13+00:00

Man, Maliki Skowronski is kind of a cunt.

Ihavenousefora · 2020-02-17T16:24:22+00:00

"It's not cute, no matter how you describe it," she said. "It's not cute, you can't treat people that way."

What an entitled bitch.

John238 · 2020-02-17T16:51:56+00:00

I would like them to get outraged over female only train carriages, that literally kicks out men.

2020-02-17T19:14:55+00:00

ABC tried way too hard to discredit and shame the barber shop owner in this article. Pretty pathetic if you ask me

deanie1970 · 2020-02-17T20:49:24+00:00

I wouldn't have a problem with that at ALL! My bf has a small engine repair shop and I already hear too much "guy talk" here! LOL

500Rads · 2020-02-17T21:15:19+00:00

Self segregation amazing how things change 😄

MineDogger · 2020-02-17T21:54:02+00:00

"The man kind of ignores my husband, directly approaches me and says, 'I'm sorry, but we have a strict no women policy. You can't be here,'" she told KFOR-TV.

So, would it have been better if they had approached the husband first like he was in charge of her?

"It's not cute, no matter how you describe it," she said. "It's not cute, you can't treat people that way."

So when women exclude men it is cute? I guess men don't count as "people."

Jackson2615 · 2020-02-17T23:54:39+00:00

The owner of King's Kuts in Ponca City, about 100 miles north of Oklahoma City, said his barbershop has a strict no girlfriends or wives policy.

Yeah give this guy a medal !!! The women want their men free zones everywhere but as soon as men want some space to themselves the femin-nazi goes bonkers.

rysic · 2020-02-18T00:59:44+00:00

It's a barber shop, they shouldn't be in there anyway.

Mr7FootCock · 2020-02-17T16:52:57+00:00

Who the fuck takes their woman to the barber shop? I wouldn't go with her to watch her hair get shampooed

Michalusmichalus · 2020-02-17T16:11:03+00:00

I thought the woman only places are to allow women that wear a head scarf to have services done.

CoolMintMC · 2020-02-17T20:46:29+00:00

I mean, I say any place shouldn't have to forbid people from coming in, but like, maybe have a waiting room that is connected to an almost enclosed room with a large window, or whatnot.

All haircut places should have a designated waiting room if this is their goal.

Honestly though? It should be up to the patient to ask whomever to leave if they don't want them, not the fucking haircut place owner.

Oh, & if a patient comes in with a child of whatever gender, than the store owner should just tell them not to come in at all, or allow both, not pick & choose who can come in & who can't.

If it bothers them, then have a no-child policy then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

LateNightTestPattern · 2020-02-17T22:41:29+00:00

Silly rabbit. With the constantly dyed purple or red hair so everyone knows how she is an individual. It's exactly that type of woman who would bitch. Dude should do himself a favor now & GTFO of that relationship.

KingKnotts · 2020-02-17T16:29:05+00:00

It’s within their right to refuse business to anyone, it’s also within the right of the customer to complain.

I think men are going to be fine with this, it depends on their Karen’s.

The fact this even made it to the news, hopefully the ship got some exposure out of it.

KingKnotts · 2020-02-17T18:51:59+00:00

It has to be based on direct discrimination, in this case (as was the case with the cake/pastry shop that refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple) it is part of their company ethos and within their right as a small business owner to REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE.

Again, the risk is if the practice is based on legitimate and unwarranted discrimination. In this case, I doubt a local court is going to rule they are acting in malicious fashion.

Is it inconvenient, potentially harmful, and stupid absolutely... but it is not illegal, and ABC and this stupid dumb fuck Karen should have known better and not run this story.

Disagree with me all you want, but you’re welcome to explain why small business owners have the fucking sign up if they can’t do it and it’s illegal.

NecroHexr · 2020-02-18T02:12:43+00:00

http://i.snipboard.io/nyJ7ES.jpg

guy sounds a bit batshit insane

zjchlorp101 · 2020-02-18T03:03:34+00:00

They should do this at the men's section in shopping mall. As a single man it's hard to shop when the wives/girlfriends in the middle of the way.

2020-02-18T06:46:49+00:00

I mean. I'll talk about w.e I want to talk about regardless of who is present

2020-02-18T01:43:53+00:00

Bruh any place that's not a toilet or changing room should be open to all genders. If this were reversed this entire sub would lose its shit.

Lucretius · 2020-02-18T01:56:54+00:00

And we're back to step 1!

lonewolfhistory · 2020-02-17T13:19:42+00:00

I dont think there should be a space with only one race or gender. Even women. I think it's wrong tbh.

jlevy1126 · 2020-02-17T13:44:03+00:00

I don't like segregation, it's wrong when women only locations exclude men so it's wrong when men only places exclude men.

Do you like that there are women only gyms a d salons? I don't. Why would I support this.

MediaMotifs · 2020-02-17T13:11:06+00:00

I know this is probably going to be downvoted but this is a case where I disagree with this subreddit. If there was a "woman-only" shop then people here wouldn't be so happy.

Alphanumeric88 · 2020-02-17T12:20:14+00:00

What about like a single mom with a son whose closest shop is this one?

Lethn · 2020-02-18T00:43:07+00:00

There was a bike shop in Calgary that didn’t allow men on one day of the week and this sub lost its mind. But now for some reason this sub is all for this. For a sub that loves (rightfully) to point out double standards, it sure is blind to it’s own

McFeely_Smackup · 2020-02-17T17:54:11+00:00

I support the principle of being allowed to let in or refuse whoever you want to for whatever reason in a private establishment, but not allowing women inside seems a bit over the top

timeforknowledge · 2020-02-17T12:11:48+00:00

Lol what exactly would you talk about in a hairdresser that can you not say in front of a woman?

Edit: lots of downvotes yet no one has the balls say why this is needed.

Men only groups are needed, places where issues facing men like medical conditions that only affect men can be openly discussed and everyone can relate. Or issues like children and metal health.

But implementing that at a hairdresser is stupid.

1) most never talk any more than standard how are you.

2) cab any one here admit they refraim from talking to Barber of a woman is near by?

3) I've never had a haircut where everyone in the room wasn't sitting in silence or talking to their hairdresser.

4) I'm there to have my hair cut only takes 15 minutes I don't have time to talk about heavy issues like that. 15 minutes in that setting is no where near enough time to discuss serious subjects.

5) the idea of a woman stopping a private conversation between two people is stupid.

This makes men look like they want a space to discuss topics that would offend women which makes us look like sexist dicks

Kieferton · 2020-02-17T16:44:05+00:00

Ur not much of a man if u cant tell ur gf to stay at home while u get a haircut.

-colonel-angus- · 2020-02-17T14:56:10+00:00

I mean, I agree that barber shops are INFINITELY better with only men, and I wouldn’t want to be in one with some dudes girlfriend hanging around. But to be fair, if a salon were to ban men we’d be in an uproar about it. And yes, there are female only “safe spaces” that ban men, which is ridiculous, and we complain about them.

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