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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060617/ap_on_re_us/six_flags_hairstyles
The All American Thing? Jeez...
thats ridicules and i hope the courts see that and they win, i feel sorry for that bloke
bad advert for america too
Don't expect the courts to recognize hair style as a right. Our country has demonstrated again and again that it cares only for business rights and only pays lip service to human rights. Individuals have a right to shut up and pay their taxes while business entities have the right to tell employees how to dress, how long they can wear their hair, prove they are innnocent of drug use as a condition of employment. Ours is a culture that in practice marginalizes the individual.
The bigger problem is that too many people are too fat and happy to care that human rights are getting increasingly trampled in a growing trend to prepetuate functional poverty; turning a blind eye to corporate misdeeds... like blatant gasoline price gouging for example... our foreign policy in the middle east is intended to install a friendly regime to oversee much of the resource that Big Oil relies on to pump excessive profits directly from the pockets of the aforementioned working poor.
Whether or not an amusement park chain has a repressive and disciminatory dress code isn't even going to register on the legislative radar and any case brought into a courtroom stands a better than fair chance of being thrown out. The best thing is to not patronize businesses that impose such standards on its employees and to educate people about the practices.
Best thing is to move to a more liberal/progressive country such as Canada or somewhere in EU... and America could go to h*ll for all I care....
Texas is a pretty conservative state if you must stay in Texas move to Austin, otherwise CA is pretty liberal, however still somewhat conservative as well in some parts.
I'll stick to this side of the pond where we tend not to get issues like that.
John.B
So, according to Six Flags, you're somehow "less American" if your skin is black and/or your hair is long? Or maybe it's that you're only "partially American," not "ALL AMERICAN" as they would like?
Discrimination is one of this country's ugliest faces. Shameful.
Actually long hair is more American. Just take a look at the Native Americans who have been here for thousands of years. Men often had waist length hair.
The statement by Six Flags that long hair is "less American" tells me that the average IQ of their management is probably less than 90. Another thing that shows their stupidity is in requiring their costume wearing employees to have short hair. A full costume completely hides the long hair. I wish all those discriminatory control freaks would just disappear. THEY are the ones that are less American. I hope the ACLU has a field day with them.
Absalom
It's a great shame it never changes over there but with big business and the dollar, woops that's slipping in value to I don't see it changing. I almost too the plunge and decided to to work and live in California but our culture keep me here. Like the pub and my passion for good music.
John.B
Who owns 6 Flags in Maryland? It seems to be the same as the Georgia parks and are executives from the Washington Redskins and ESPN organizations. Yet under Disney I do not see the 6 flags parks listed even tho they own ESPN. So who owns it? I want them to know they get no more money from me.
I'd say we should all get together and protest six flags and companies alike. I mean, there are so many famous longhairs(in bands usually) they'll do some help too.
Hello,
I agree with this, that means that it should be visible by media, and make an allusion that employers like Six Flags are contributing to making the world look like THX-1138.
Not only the ACLU should get involved, but gender expression advocates http://www.gpac.org/ who help make the environment friendly to the diversities of gender expressions.
Gender identity and expression issues are not just for transgenders, but for everyone.
Most important of all, we the people, means also "we the clients", and no one on this board shouls go to any theme park or amusement park owned by Six Flags, until they change their grooming policies to include long-haired men. Ride operators should use hair nets or tuck their hair well under caps to avoid accidents.
People should write complaints to six flags about finding women's hair in their food... because they are not made to cut their hair ;)
Have a nice day,
Georges in Montreal.
PS: La Ronde which is Montreal's Amusement Park has been bought by Six Flags, I do not know if the same grooming code applies outside the USA, and there are lots of long-haired youths in Montreal. While in Montreal, I boycott Blockbuster Video.
Have a nice day,
Georges
Hello.
Why do you boycott Blockbuster video in Montreal?
Blockbuster video enforced a policy stating that guys cannot have long hair, in the US, I wonder if that policy holds in Montreal. But by the way, I prefer "La Boite Noire" because it has lots of repertory material, and a few longhairs work there.
Hmmm. My daughter just asked to go to Blockbuster to rent a game, and I told her no. Now I'm curious if they have any longhairs. I'm nearly certain I've seen them there.
You will certainly find longhairs in their choice of movies, like "The Man in the Iron Mask", or Lord of the Rings, however this has to be checked. It can happen that after a few years, since the firings date from 1994, the policy can be dormant, and longhairs are working in some stores without knowing about it. Until the big bosses decide to crack down.
Have a nice day,
Georges in Montreal.
The article says: "Terry Prather, the park's general manager, said that the policy is not discriminatory and that exceptions are made for employees with religious and medical reasons for not cutting their hair."
I understand religious reasons for not cutting hair. What are the medical reasons that people have for not cutting hair?
Some face blind people cannot recognize themselves without long hair and not having it can cause severe psychological trauma. (I am one of those people.)
Some men cannot shave because shaved beard hairs get impacted in the skin and then infected. This is most common among black people.
I met one man (he's a gardener for the San Francisco parks) who was told to grow long hair to protect his neck from the sun because he was getting precancerous lesions on his neck. His job requires he be out in the sun all day. He said he did not even like the look of long hair, but the lesions went away so the mane stays.
I know of those three medical reasons. There are likely to be others.
Bill
Thanks for sharing this. I can understand it, at least partly. I have great difficulty recognising faces - sometimes even a little eye-shadow can make someone look totally different to me. It must be really hard when your own face can be unfamiliar to you.
Thanks.
So next time your boss says to cut your hair say its a religious reason... just tell them you took a Naserite vow or something, that is reason enough.
For most of us, I think this wouldn't work, since a nazarite is forbidden from combing his hair, since this might pull some out.
