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[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Mihies 33 points 2 weeks ago

Lol, that was my initial thought as well.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

This but it'll primarily be used against black students.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

As soon as I read the article, I was thinking the same thing! What the hell…

[–] [email protected] 125 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Punishing women for being insufficiently feminine has always been a parallel goal of the anti-trans movement.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This will primarily be used against black students.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Remember when long hair on lads just meant that they were hippies

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago

They hate those too don't worry

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While visiting relatives in 1972 or so, I got beaten up in Little Rock by two brawny boys my age because my hair hung down to my lower back.

"Hey, did your mama want a girl?"

"Your mother sure wanted this boy."

That got them both off their porch and got me a nasty beating.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They got the physical victory, but you got the emotional victory, and anyone who gets violent over a 'Your Mom' joke like that will NEVER live it down. They probably still think about you sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

No, they probably never thought in their entire life.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

They also said at one point that these guys were "corrupting the youth with their long hair."

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Republican lawmakers in Arkansas have introduced a bill that would allow lawsuits against anyone who [...] use a student's chosen name that is different from their birth name

Did you just call him Bob? Robert, call the name police! Now!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Was Arkansas always that conservative or this a recent thing?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

It's a super religious state, something like 80% Christian, and a lot of those are the actual church going kind. It's the home of the Duggars (18 kids and counting) crazy baptist type sect of ultra conservative loons

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

yes its a gop stronghold Huckabee sanders, recently(kinda) made child labor legal there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ms sanders huckabee's state.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Small government to tell me what to do... all controlling so I can tell YOU what to do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Whoever told you that is your enemy.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

The party of "small government".

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Hi, gender is a spectrum and while I fully identify as male and straight*, I had long hair as a child. If my school had tried to cut my hair by force, I would have absolutely thrown hands, and I was not a small child. Apparently I pushed a teacher into a wall as a first grader but I have no memory of doing so.

Hair is not "gender conforming" unless you're the most vanilla, thinks-flour-is-spicy, "mayonnaise has too much flavor" basic bitch in the universe. If you really think hair has two genders "long and short" then you are just the saddest sack of shit.

Hair is whatever the fuck you want it to be. I decided I didn't want long hair anymore, so I started getting it cut short. I even had it around 1/4in at one point just because of how easy it was to be done with. Now it's long because before I got married, my now-wife said she liked when it was longer, so I'm growing it out again until we decide it's long enough or I get tired of it again. If I wanted to shave most of it right now, I can do that. Nobody controls my hair but me, and nobody has any say in how I keep it, short of safety concerns. (protip: hair ties and a hair net when working with rotary tools, once you've seen a video you never want it to happen to you)

Get the fuck out of here with this weak ass bullshit policing children's hair.

They won't be happy until everyone is a straight white silent and obedient clone of each other.

*It's a spectrum, sometimes I want to feel pretty so if you had to stick me in a hole I'd say I'm straight but I'm sure someone could make a convincing argument that I'm at least a little fluid.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just look at this fucking pussy-ass bitch though:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In all fairness I bet he gets a lot of gender fluids going...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Sploosh...or whatever the male equivalent is...which I guess is still sploosh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Man for real. I’m a guy but I’ve had long hair nearly my entire life and have spent the last decade really making sure it was well cared for. Currently my hair goes down past my shoulders.

Fuck me for having nice hair though I guess

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I've got a male friend who had the most luscious locks. Down to his chin. His wife made him cut it, and everyone who knew him was upset.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

hair ties and a hair net when working with rotary tools

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm old but the shortest my hair has been in the past 35 or 40 years is shoulder length. Every other spring I have the spouse chop it off to shoulder length then let it go again for two years.

I'm also in Arkansas.

But, not a kid so I guess it's okay for me to be my filthy hippie / sasquatch self according to this proposal.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago

Are we back in the sixties?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

Party of personal freedom!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

Arrest warrants being prepared:

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do I have to put penises in my hair now or something?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Only if the penis belongs to your pastor.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Heil the land of the free!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Freeedom! 🦅🦅🦅

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

“You are only allowed to express yourself in ways approved by the state.” - Free speech absolutists

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Y'all, ah'm worried about the Beava.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's why I used the word primarily