Michigan hair-stylist made a FB post asking those who identified as "anything other than a man/woman" to "seek services at a local pet groomer,"

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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/07/12/hair-stylist-dropped-by-jack-winn-pro-anti-trans/1241689199767/

Should this be acceptable?

"July 12 (UPI) -- A Michigan hair salon whose owner made anti-transgender remarks online and may have attended the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been dropped by the beauty product line Jack Winn Pro.

Christine Geiger, the owner of Studio 8 Hair Lab in Traverse City, made a now-deleted Facebook post that encouraged those who identified as "anything other than a man/woman" to "seek services at a local pet groomer," a play on the word "groomer" to infer gay people are pedophiles."

Sounds like a joke about people identifying as animals. Trans people identify as men or women. It invites them to be groomed, ie get their hair/fur styled, not to groom others.

But of course, Merlin, everything is transphobic🙄

I’d go, except it’s a bit far.

It's over, Merlin.

You know your ideology is finished when it becomes a subject of derision for everyone except the poor sods who are still believing in it.

The hairdresser’s post encouraged those who identified as "anything other than a man/woman" to "seek services at a local pet groomer," a play on the word "groomer" to infer gay people are pedophiles."

Merlin, how did you leap from gender/ species identity to homosexuality? It’s not about gay people at all, let alone calling them paedophiles.

As dumb as the deleted FB post is, Merlin you seem more and more confused about what man/woman/gender/sexuality is. Why on earth do you think cutting dog's hair has anything to do with whatever it is you believe 'gay' is? Why bring your homophobia into every post on here? You're not going to convince us that homophobia is cool because of some shitty attempt at a joke on FB.

Why is identifying as a man/woman somehow not a transgender thing? None of it makes any sense.

I'm not even sure what it is you are asking 'should be acceptable'. The post? Its deletion? The firing? Saying words?
This is what happens when you insist words need to lose all meaning. You're incoherent.

She was clearly referring to people identifying as animals, which is a massive thing in America.

Gender identity is not about someone's sexuality.
So the comment wasn't about gay people op.

Surely if you do identify as an animal, you would want to go to the pet grooming place wouldn't you?

Like if you identify as a woman, you'd want to go to the women's hair salon, or the women's toilets etc.

Identifying as an animal is ridiculous though. So a bit of gentle ridicule like this is acceptable yes.

Loving the grammatical error though. The word they're looking for is 'imply' not 'infer'. The only one inferring that this comment had anything to do with homosexuality and CSA is you.

Some of the replies to this post are clearly ChatGPT. So much use of the OP's name.

Clearly.

^^sarcastic

It should be 'imply' not 'infer'.

That aside...

I think the original FB message was rude and unnecessary.