I Have Something to Say
'New York City bans hair discrimination'
This seems sensible on one level, and certainly people shouldn't be discriminated against in terms of receiving public services - and especially in a courtroom - because of haircare 'standards' which are in effect (if not necessarily intent) discriminating.
[i]On the other hand[/i] - whether it's a good thing or not, there are relics of Eurocentric beauty standards (as the article calls them) left in, well, Europe and North America. Among these is the generally held view that certain hairstyles in contemporary culture - such as dreadlocks - cool as they might be, simply don't look professional. You can't ban popular opinion, whether or not you like it!
To expand on the court example: I'm sure a judge before whom a lawyer in dreadlocks is appearing on behalf of a client, or where a client has dreadlocks, is capable of exercising limited discrimination against the lawyer or the dreadlocked party. Can, on the other hand, the jury?
t might not be nice that certain hairstyles (I for one would draw certain conclusions about a woman wearing her hair like Marie Antoinette, for instance) tend to lead people to certain swift judgments, but you can't wish it away.
So all stuff like this self-parodying nonsense achieves is further to annoy the vast bulk of perfectly pleasant people who are being told by the self-righteous that they're not woke enough to count as decent members of society.
This seems sensible on one level, and certainly people shouldn't be discriminated against in terms of receiving public services - and especially in a courtroom - because of haircare 'standards' which are in effect (if not necessarily intent) discriminating.
[i]On the other hand[/i] - whether it's a good thing or not, there are relics of Eurocentric beauty standards (as the article calls them) left in, well, Europe and North America. Among these is the generally held view that certain hairstyles in contemporary culture - such as dreadlocks - cool as they might be, simply don't look professional. You can't ban popular opinion, whether or not you like it!
To expand on the court example: I'm sure a judge before whom a lawyer in dreadlocks is appearing on behalf of a client, or where a client has dreadlocks, is capable of exercising limited discrimination against the lawyer or the dreadlocked party. Can, on the other hand, the jury?
t might not be nice that certain hairstyles (I for one would draw certain conclusions about a woman wearing her hair like Marie Antoinette, for instance) tend to lead people to certain swift judgments, but you can't wish it away.
So all stuff like this self-parodying nonsense achieves is further to annoy the vast bulk of perfectly pleasant people who are being told by the self-righteous that they're not woke enough to count as decent members of society.
36-40, F
