{"id":7134,"date":"2018-04-10T09:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T07:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2018-04-10T09:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T07:09:33","slug":"victim-of-entitlement-or-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7134\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim of entitlement or diversity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> is an interesting story:<\/p>\n

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A SYDNEY barber says he\u2019s distraught and unable to sleep after a woman took legal action against him for not cutting her daughter\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Sam Rahim, who runs a barber shop in Hunters Hill Village in Sydney, said he was devastated when he was taken to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission after refusing the woman\u2019s request on the grounds of being unqualified.<\/p>\n

Just before Christmas, a woman came into his shop and asked him to cut her daughter\u2019s hair, according to\u00a0Nine News.<\/p>\n

When he tried to direct her to a salon up the road, she stormed out in anger.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason we rejected it is because it is a barber shop,\u201d he told\u00a0Today<\/em>\u00a0this morning. \u201cI only specialise in cutting men\u2019s hair. I\u2019m not qualified to cut females\u2019 hair. That\u2019s pretty much it. I\u2019m surrounded by hairdressers.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said when women come into the shop he just points them to the nearest hairdressing salon. \u201cThey are literally a 20-second walk away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman took her complaint to the Human Rights Commission, claiming he breached anti-discrimination laws and embarrassed her daughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So did this woman not realise that a barber is not the same as a hairdresser, and cutting men’s hair is a lot different from cutting women’s? Is this an example of modern entitlement culture? Or is there something else going on?<\/p>\n

In a statement to the Nine Network, the complainant claimed Mr Rahim never said he was unqualified to cut women\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n

\u201cA claim has been brought against Hunters Hill Barber Shop in the Federal Circuit Court for an alleged breach of the Sex Discrimination Act. The basis of the claim is that the barber shop refused to simply run the clippers through my daughter\u2019s undercut, because she was a girl.<\/p>\n

\u201cI indicated to him that I did not need him to style, cut or trim the rest of her hair, which is styled in a \u2018bob\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Rahim\u2019s explanation was that he wished to keep his barber shop for boys and men only. He never said he was not qualified to cut women\u2019s or girls\u2019 hair, as he has incorrectly reported to the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm. Could this be a diversity issue of the type that now has lowly bollard suppliers thumbing through Sunseeker yacht catalogues?<\/p>\n

Over-entitled, permanently aggrieved suburban mother versus member of a protected class. Good luck disentangling that one, Australia!<\/p>\n

(What the barber should have done is put the No. 1 head on the clipper and given the little brat a French Foreign Legion cut. Viz<\/em> had a gag along these lines with One Cut Wally<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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