Feng Swish

[cris]

FengSwish1 at Liquid Hair Studios has been my hair stylist since 2001. It seems like a terribly non-heterosexual male thing to have a stylist as opposed to a barber, but that's just the whole gender/identity politics thing getting in the way. I don't worry about it, and if one feels a need to attach a label to it, you could say that our divergent

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[chaizzilla]

caesar hairdo? izzat a clooney?

[cris]

yeah, pretty much. Apparently, default style of gay men and curly-haired guys with straight hair envy.

[panzerkunst]

And moronic Eminem wannabes.

[cris]

sometimes the three aren't mutually exclusive.

[aphonik]

i may as well be bald, for all the attention (or lack thereof) that i give my hair, so i don't have much to offer on the first part.

however, the more i think about that court decision, the more impressed i am that something like that can happen, in this country, and in this political climate. the more consideration i give it, the more courageous it seems, and i greatly admire that.

so amen to your "rock on".

[cris]

Yeah, that's part of the reason why I wanted to point out the text, because it's not just a great decision, but the way in which it's articulated is really commendable. It doesn't read like a loophole interpretation but a great statement of the way society should work.

[aphonik]

definitely. reading the text (which i downloaded yesterday at work), you can tell how thoroughly considered a decision that actually was, how precisely conceived and articulated -- almost as if they were fully aware of the ramifications and decided to make the most of the opportunity by really driving a knife into the heart of traditionalists and conservatives. parts of it are rather eloquently expressed. moreso than one might anticipate from a legal document, at least.

[panzerkunst]

Haircuts? What are those??