Barber shop in Leeds asks pregnant woman to leave

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Seriously. A friend of a friend just posted this on Facebook. I am raging.

Apparently it isn't the first time they've behaved like this - a man was refused entry when he was with his four year old daughter as apparently they have a "no females" policy.

Absolutely outrageous

Um, no, your deleted comment was the beef....

You know, the first one you made when you made yourself look like a deluded fool.

I was once in a Toni and Guys years ago. Middle aged slightly frumpy woman came in and wanted to make an appt. kept offering different dates she could come in and receptionist just kept denying they had any appts at all, like in the next six months. It was so obvious a lie it was awful.

Woman left and receptionist then giggled with a stylist about as if they'd ever have a woman like that in there. I never went back.

Maybe they just thought this woman and even her dp weren't their sort of clients?

'Hmmm, yes, because men have so jolly few men only spaces now, don't they? Poor things'

Still can't think of any.

I have no doubt of that, seen. No doubt at all that you can't think of many, many things.

Keep plugging away though, the brain's kind of like a muscle, the more you use it the better it works.

They have a branch in Manchester, I went with my DP and sat outside the shop in their 'female area' they had magazines for the women.... Good housekeeping and weight watchers! Cheeky sods

I know there are Women's Hospitals, Women's cancer screening units etc. but I can't think of any exclusively Men's spaces.

prostate clinic? erectile dysfunction clinic? Whites? Boodles? etc. Mens' changing rooms? Nope, none at all.

Flora, I feel that if you use intellect and facts with that one, you'll be flogging a dead horse.

Yes PlaysWell I suspect you are right.

What kind of man continues with his hair cut while his heavily pregnant wife is denied a seat?

What kind of man continues with his hair cut while his heavily pregnant wife is denied a seat?

A man with half a haircut.....

Apparently he just sat there laughing about it. Sounds a real charmer.

To be fair though, he did choose to go into a barber shop which advertises itself as being for gentlemen and scoundrels so.....

Personally I'd rather sit in a cafe while someone was having their hair cut....

I'm pretty sure that in those circumstances my DH would have had a conversation with the barber which would have resulted in a chair being found for me.

"I was once in a Toni and Guys years ago. Middle aged slightly frumpy woman came in and wanted to make an appt. kept offering different dates she could come in and receptionist just kept denying they had any appts at all, like in the next six months. It was so obvious a lie it was awful."

Bloody hell that's awful.

Why did the man laugh because his pregnant wife had to stand outside? If it were me I'd have fucked off somewhere else anyway.

Whole thing is a bit weird. Shop sounds like arseholes, bloke sounds like a dick, wife needs to learn how to go off and please herself.

They don't really need to make it "officially" no women, some places make it so uncomfortable for women that they just don't go there anyway!

This is for publicity isn't it and to appeal to the sort of man who thinks it's funny to turf pregnant women out of seats etc there are plenty of them about. As we know plenty of men don't like women very much and so this type of approach will be appealing to them.

"Still can't think of any."

Don't think men need men only spaces though, because there are so many places which few women choose to go to.
For example, I'm in a gaming club. Women aren't excluded, but none go.
I'm also in sports club, a minority sport where Britain's women do probably better than Britain's men. The male:female ratio is probably 10:1 even though women are actively encouraged to join.
Ditto pubs. Although women aren't excluded (any more, I did go to a pub in Ireland that was no women), for certain pubs at certain times, it will be mostly if not all men.

Some women are always going on about wanting female only spaces, so why can't the men? Although, you'd think they would make an exception for a pregnant woman.

Chicken nothing wrong with wanting a male only space but that's a little different than throwing out a heavily pregnant woman.

I'm pretty sure most female only spaces would find a chair for a man waiting for his wife who was ill or injured and finding it hard to stand.

I feel sorry for any woman with such low self esteem that she'd have a baby with a man who would frequent an establishment that would treat her like that and find it funny tbh.

Poor woman. Imagine her relationship.

'Some women are always going on about wanting female only spaces, so why can't the men?'

Are you actually seriously asking this question?

You do realise, don't you that the people 'going on about wanting female only spaces' are not asking for fucking hairdressers, they're asking for places where the 85,000+ women who are raped by men every year can go to get medical attention and counselling, a place where they can feel safe? Are you seriously equating a barbers that advertises itself as being for 'gentlemen and scoundrels' and which makes pregnant women stand outside so men can have their hair cut with places necessary for women to escape male violence?

Very well said cailindana.

Of course females need safe female-only spaces.

Personally, I do not see a problem with a place that only cuts men's hair and men's beards saying that they do not want females in their establishment. They may lose trade but so be it. They may also pick up trade. If a hairdresser wants to only cut women's hair and wants to be women only, again, so be it. Lots of spas and the like could be male or female only. To me that seems fine.

I think sending out a pregnant women seems a bit much, but imagine if there was a female only space and a man on crutches wanted to sit there or whatever. I would ideally not want the females in that space to be compromised by having to have a male in that space. Being pregnant is not being ill. Presumably, being pregnant doesn't mean you can't walk or drive to a local cafe or go home.

Male only spaces are not for the same reasons as female only spaces. But males may like the chance to be together just as females want the chance to be together. it's like Guides/Brownies/Girls' Brigade. etc, I want those to be for females only. So I don't have a problem with Boys' Brigade.

I certainly would not want there to be a whole lot of places in society that are for males or females only, I would rather most places were for everyone. But some places that segregate on sex, seems fair and not unreasonable.

Chicken nothing wrong with wanting a male only space but that's a little different than throwing out a heavily pregnant woman.

Hence why I said you would think they would make an exception - which you really would think in this situation.

cailindana, I've been raped in a particularly violently way so I know exactly where I stand with this. My opinion still stands.

LoveChickens I am so sorry to hear that.