What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

malt-tango:

glumshoe:

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jumpingjacktrash:

glumshoe:

changingmorphologies:

glumshoe:

glumshoe:

I might not be able to wear a binder for any length of time anymore, but you bet your ass I’m putting it on before I get my haircut so I can get those sweet sweet men’s prices.

Living outside a small town means that whenever I get my haircut, I have to roleplay to the stylist. The first time I went in, she thought I was a 15 year old boy, and even though I go there only every eight months or so, she somehow remembers me and thinks I am now entering my senior year of high school. I have to tell her my college aspirations and favorite classes and if I’m going to prom with a nice girl.

It’s The Worst™ and she’s always telling me how my hair is just too pretty for a boy, and telling everyone else in the room to admire my beautiful hair and cluck in envy that a boy should be blessed with such curls.

I don’t know how to get out of this incredibly awkward situation.

Hey Ship?

This is fucking hilarious.

no it’s bad Rob

she thinks I’m a hypermature Boy Genius Child and I don’t know how to tell her I’m a genderqueer college grad

this is my favorite sitcom

You know.. as a stylist I feel compelled to tell you that the ‘men’s’ price is actually just what they call a clippercut for some reason. So.. yeah. Have fun with that XD

Not really, a lot of places will charge like $45 for basic “women’s haircuts” and like $20 for “men’s haircuts” - so even if you’re like, a butch lesbian getting a literal buzzcut, they will still try to charge you $45 by virtue of your perceived gender. My butch friend had to call three or four places before she found one that would charge her the same price as a man for a simple clipper cut. I’ve asked for relatively complicated short haircuts while presenting masculine and been charged men’s prices by people who would have doubled or tripled the price if I’d been wearing lipstick.

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That is not what I am saying in any way.

I have had my hair cut many times. 90% of those times have been very traditional men’s styles, taken from photos of men. I never get it styled afterwards. My mom’s old hair stylist, who cut my hair through high school, cheerfully informed me after I came out that I could get cheaper cuts from him now.

When I have shown up to the same studio with the same reference photo, I have been charged differently depending on whether the stylists read me as a man or a woman. This is a fact.

My friend who asked for a literal buzzcut, a la Furiosa, was told by the first few studios she called that they would charge her women’s prices for a men’s haircut because she’s a woman and “it’s different”. This is also a fact. She finally found a studio where the receptionist said, yeah, sure, they’d give her a men’s cut for men’s prices, and buzzed her head without further ado. Her loyalty to that studio was secured only because they didn’t try to price gouge her based soley on gender.

If you’re charging me based on the complexity of a haircut, that makes sense. But charging me based on the presence of lipstick rather than the actual haircut I am receiving is fucking absurd and it’s very much a problem that I have encountered time and again.

I have had this exact same experience as well. For some reason it’s basically industry standard to charge women way more than men, even if you just get a buzzcut. 

The worst hair cut I ever had was when I went in and asked for a simple buzzcut. You’d think a trained chimp could do that, but apparently not this gender role-obsessed barber who had to be CONVINCED for ten minutes that I really wanted it ‘that short’. Then she kept saying ‘oh, I’ll leave these bits long so you look more feminine’ and doing stupid bullshit other than just giving me the goddamn buzzcut. MA'AM I AM A QUEER MOTHERFUCKER. I DON’T LOOK LIKE THIS BY ACCIDENT. GIVE ME THAT SHORT MASC BUZZCUT. Then she charged me twice as much for all that so-called ‘styling’ she did. All because she read me as female. 

I have found a trans woman hairdresser now. She is a hairdressing student and a little over-cautious still, but hers was by far the best haircut I’ve ever had just on how she treated me. I sat down, told her ‘make me look like a boy’ and she GOT ME. None of the goddamn arguments over how to make me look ‘more feminine’, and she charged me for the actual haircut I got rather than arbitrarily doubling the price ‘cause I have tits. That’s the first time that has ever happened to me since I started trying to look masc ~4 years ago.

Cosigning all of this. The last time I got my hair cut in the UK, so short it was practically buzzed, I was charged double what my husband was at the same place, even though his hair was longer than mine and required a more complex cut. Literally everywhere does this and I fucking hate it, which is why I ended up buying a set of clippers. I’m not great at doing anything complex with them, but goddamn, does it beat shelling out eighty-odd dollars for an experience so heavily gendercoded that it invariably ends up making my genderqueer ass feel dysphoric.

(via almaasi)

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