Arkansas bill targets 'gender nonconforming' haircuts for kids : nottheonion

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 146 points 2 years ago

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[-] Mihies@programming.dev 33 points 2 years ago

Lol, that was my initial thought as well.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

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

[-] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 124 points 2 years ago

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

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago

This will primarily be used against black students.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

It's both.

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[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ebolapie@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

They hate those too don't worry

[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Asetru@feddit.org 62 points 2 years ago

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!!

[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Was Arkansas always that conservative or this a recent thing?

[-] aturtlesdream@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years 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

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Ms sanders huckabee's state.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 59 points 2 years ago

Lol land of the free

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

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

[-] zenez@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Whoever told you that is your enemy.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 47 points 2 years ago

The party of "small government".

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Just look at this fucking pussy-ass bitch though:

[-] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

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

[-] madkins@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

hair ties and a hair net when working with rotary tools

[-] clif@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years 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.

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

US Taliban.

[-] 9bananas@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

*Catholiban ;)

[-] Nagrom@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 years ago

Are we back in the sixties?

[-] CptCosmicMoron@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 years ago

Party of personal freedom!

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 years ago

Arrest warrants being prepared:

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

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

[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago

Heil the land of the free!

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That's why I used the word primarily

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