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Major Human Rights Violation Rectified

In Denmark, the government now requires men’s and women’s haircuts to be the same price.

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • Anonymous

    So after the inevitable legal fight that they may end up losing, salons will probably increase the price of men’s haircuts to match the price of women’s haircuts and call it a day.

  • chris

    Poor Danish women, won’t be looking too good anymore !
    Wow, there are some bureaucrats with time on their hands! I guess this is what progressives have to stoop down to when, in spite of their best efforts, their country isn’t busy due-ing other societies.

  • http://twitter.com/yelofmail Liam Foley

    On a more serious note, an EU court ruled last year that it was discriminatory to charge men more for auto insurance than they charge women. This is despite the fact that men are more likely to have an accident. So women end up having to pay more.

  • Franklin

    Is there anything more telling of the state’s insidiousness when one simply offers a scenario of the hair-cropping rebel?

    “I don’t care about this ruling. I’ll charge people whatever I want to charge.”

    “You can’t do that because then you’ll lose your barber’s license.”

    “So what? Then I’ll cut my customers’ hair without a license. I have many customers who don’t care that I have no license.”

    “Then the cops will come and board up your salon, or your home if that’s where you cut hair. And if you refuse to comply, they will point a gun at you and take you to jail.”

    “Just because I want to provide a service to a willing customer?”

    “Hey, you can’t fight City Hall.”

    Now I want to hear the hare-brained leftist justify that one. Step right up and do that for me.
    Fascists, every last one of them. And not even the decency or the intellectual capacity to admit it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1457760294 Robert Fellner

    Right. Which will lead to less men getting their hair cut and less business for the salons, less jobs, etc.

  • Jim

    Before we criticize the bozos in Denmark too harshly, don’t forget that we commonly have barber licensing here in the US. That red/white/blue barber pole you see outside the store? They’re not just being cute – you usually can’t have that unless you get right with the State. The result is exclusion of competition and artificially higher prices for consumers. Oh, er … uh health and safety. Yeah.

    So anyway, as with US barbers and hair licensing, I suspect that this is somebody’s way of protectionism. I’d guess that some industry group is trying to raise prices across the board by law – probably by raising prices of mens haircuts which are usually quite cheap and simple. That’s just my suspicion, of course. I don’t spend much time keeping up on the European hair industry.

  • Human

    Haha

  • Jeremy

    At least for ONCE it hurts the women. It’s almost always the other way around.

    Although I certainly don’t agree with making everything “fair” by government force. I mean forces salons and insurance companies to make everything the same price? You’ve got to be kidding.

  • Anonymous

    Free at last, free at last…

  • http://twitter.com/thinkliberdy Dave B

    Thats what I was thinking too: he men will have to pay more for a haircut. I see a black market for haircuts sprouting up or more guys doing it themselves (that’s what I already do).