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Posted by Colin on 1/11/2006, 9:06:05, in reply to "Re: Must be!"
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and I didn't mean to suggest that the women barbers' customers generally sexualized the experience, either, only that a woman who knew her way around short cuts was just as welcome as a man (and being easy on the eyes was a bonus). My experience in other arenas is similar. Whether it's at the ball park, in the materials lab, or in a combat-themed role-playing game, women who join in on an equal footing--neither butching themselves up to compete, nor playing up femininity to win favors or sympathy--are usually welcome to be "one of the guys." Of course, my experience is also just as self-selecting as anybody's, so the behavior of the people I choose to be around is naturally colored by my own tendencies. But I think the popularity of these women barbers does speak to a wider trend--they're not catering primarily to wimpy sensitive guys ("Who doesn't know who plays in the Seattle Kingdome?") like me.

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Message Thread: Good words for a woman barber. Qualified. - Gunny 30/10/2006, 7:09:58 Re: Good words for a woman barber. Qualified. - oldfashion 31/10/2006, 2:55:39 Must be! - Colin 31/10/2006, 8:17:18 Re: Must be! - Gunny 1/11/2006, 6:01:12 Right, I understood - Colin 1/11/2006, 9:06:05 But, as Gunny is saying here... - Eric 1/11/2006, 9:03:45 Now, to be fair... - Eric 31/10/2006, 12:14:59 « Back to thread

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