Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-31-2008

[andrewducker]

• Close up of a female orgasm
  Warning - possibly the most NSFW thing you can think of that doesn't have a Japanese girl wrapped in latex in it...
  (tags: sex orgasms video)
• Four Handy Steps To Understanding America
  And just how Awesome it is.
  (tags: USA funny)
• Iraq demands all US troops out by 2011
  Good for them
  (tags: war politics occupation iraq usa)
• Woman Denied Service At JC Penney Salon For Having Black Hair
  Seperate but equal, apparently...
  (tags: racism usa)
• Where's Charlton Heston when you need him?
  Christians pray to Golden Bull for help. Massive Biblical Fail
  (tags: religion christianity wallstreet economics funny)
• Should we all just stop paying the mortgage?
  An angry, funny and true look at the effects of bailing out people who signed up for mortgages they couldn't afford.
  (tags: finance ethics)

Comments

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

It's interesting as I remember talking to an African American girl I worked with a few years ago and she was lamenting the fact that it was so hard to get hair products that worked for her [African American, as she plainly put it] hair type. I can only imagine that some salon stylists wouldn't have the right skills either, but that's more to do with individual training than racism.

It's not a good situation either way, but I do feel that this is a bit of a ridiculous media over-reaction. As one of the article comments says, they could have apologised and referred her to a better salon.

[andrewducker]

Having stylists that can cope with all hair style except the ones most common amongst an ethnic community that suffers a lot of racism would be something that you'd try to avoid, I would think...

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

That's assuming a lot, unfortunately. Generally salons rent out chairs to stylists and as long as the chairs are filled...

If the salon in question had handled it better, I don't think this would be a story.