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Friday, March 18, 2005
Kill a Barber, Go to Heaven!
According to the NYT, the ultimate advocates of the religion of peace have found another route to holiness. They're slaughtering barbers who give improper haircuts or trim beards too closely.
This newly emergent attention to manly fashion dovetails nicely with observations we've earlier made about Islamist misogyny, irritation with the female form and unhealthy appreciation of male bonding and companionship, but we're not going to go there today.
No, today we're just going to wonder aloud what it might take to get the New York-Bay Area crowds to see the villainy in these people. Not to judge, for we eschew that, but still, but isn't there something a little barbarous in slaughtering barbers? We understand that the wholesale slaughter of the Kurds was not enough to stir Manhattan socialites, but violating the stylist-client relationship? Surely this is beyond the pale.
Incidentally, whether Manhattan socialites appreciate the importantce of the stylist-client relationship or not, the New York Times gets it. When one young barber they spoke to requested anonymity, they showed their appreciation for the gravity of the situation by giving only his first name and no identifying details.
It would have been even better if they hadn't printed a full color picture of him giving a possibly unorthodox haircut.
Gotta love the Times.
posted by gbarto at 11:27 PM
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