[Helmutnl]

A cool one

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A Liverpool barber shop has been accused of breaching equalities legislation for banning women. Martin Daubney talks to its defiant owner about why men need their own space.

A heavily-tattooed, street-talking Irish barber has become the unlikely target of a hate campaign – after he took the decidedly un-PC decision to ban women from his barber shops.
When Johnny the BaBa – real name Johnny Shanahan, 36 – opened branches of his Barber Barber shops in Manchester and Liverpool, his men-only door policy initially delighted his image-conscious punters.
But his stance soon attracted criticism, and his defiant comments – including “I don’t think there’s any place in a barber’s shop for women, period” – caused predictable, delicious ire among the terminally outraged Twitter minority, who angrily clamoured for his shop to be shut down.
For his unapologetic stance – which he insists isn’t anti-woman but pro-man – Johnny has received death threats, having previously had his shop vandalised and even soiled tampons posted through his door.
Yet despite all this – and perhaps in part even because of it – his men-only door policy has been a soar-away success with his punters, who daily queue around the block at both branches for a £24 trim.

Inside, customers are free to enjoy “ male banter”, plus there’s a bar, poker, cigars and his stylish sidekicks called the Scoundrels, who look like tattooed extras from Boardwalk Empire who’ve been on the bourbon.
I catch up with Johnny – dressed for work in a three-piece suit and bowler hat – in a noisy Manchester café as he prepares for a busy day, his tattooed fingers bearing his motto - STAY TRUE - cradling a morning brew.
“People disagree with me on this issue, but I’m sticking to my guns,” he says. “I suppose we will get criticised for this ‘til the day we retire, but we won’t change.
“Men’s barber’s shops belong to men. I fell in love with men’s barbers when I was a child, my grandad used to take me to a barber’s shop on Saturdays.
“Men had very little money and couldn’t afford to go the pub, so they went to the barber’s shop, talking about sport and having general men chit-chat. I started working there aged 13, sweeping the floors. I never left. I worked there nearly 15 years.”

By focusing on traditional technical excellence and contemporary hipster style, Johnny turned a failing business into Ireland’s most recognisable barber’s.
Then last November, perhaps ironically, it was Johnny’s wife who encouraged him to take his men-only policy to the UK mainland.
“My wife is a great woman she is very supportive and said I should give it a try,” he said. ”I spent a year going back and forth to Manchester and the rest is history.
“My customers love it: they feel a part of something. We don’t do appointments, we do walk-ups, it doesn’t matter who you are. If you’ve got £24 in your pocket you’re a VIP to me.
“We have them all: the big names, the gangsters, judges. For every one person that doesn’t like it, there’s a hundred that do.”’

But in August things turned nasty after the Liverpool Echo reported that a woman had been asked to leave the shop while her boyfriend was having his hair cut. “I don’t know how they’re getting away with it," said Harriet Brignall, 18. "I was mortified. It’s like a step backwards in time.”
Local Labour councillor Nick Small weighed in to the debate, telling the paper: “Barber Barber may well believe they’re being ironic or edgy, but I believe that by banning women from the premises, they may well be in breach of equalities legislation.”
Johnny says: “It was ridiculous, they were like a dog with a bone. It kicked off on Twitter and all of a sudden we were being compared to Islamic State. People were making me out to be some sort of club-wielding Neanderthal who goes home and beats his wife up.
“But 99 per cent of women think it’s a great idea – it’s just one per cent of Left-wing idiots. Most of these women seem to spend all their time trying to emasculate men.
“People were calling me a pig and all because we don’t allow ladies in for a service we don’t provide, but we’re not trained to do their hair. What’s the problem?"

Women, Johnny adds, are allowed over the threshold. "They come into the shop every day – they just don’t stay. I’d say 85 per cent of our voucher sales are from women.”
Social media and local press hostilities escalated, resulting in a decidedly unsavoury protest featuring feminine hygiene products.
“On Twitter they said, ‘I hope you get firebombed’ and ‘I hope you die’ – it’s keyboard warriors and I didn’t take them seriously for one minute,” says Johnny.
“Then I came into work one morning and there were 20-30 tampons – they weren’t used but they were dipped in red paint or something. They’d been thrown at my window and posted through the letterbox. That’s what you’re dealing with.”
Yet Johnny’s booming profits – and plans to open four branches in London next year – prove his USP of “having a space where men can be men” has chimed with modern blokes.
As a final poke in the eye for the equalities mob, tonight the self-made millionaire is up for a Junior Chamber International Entrepeneur of the Year award.
“Men feel more comfortable in men-only spaces,” he says. “They enjoy it. There are very few places left where men are allowed to be men. Here, they feel like part of a club.
“We’re not for everybody, but if you try to please everybody, you will end up pleasing nobody. That’s one of the hardest lessons I’ve learned in life. If you try to please everybody, you’ll die frustrated.”

[Foolsgo1d]

Why would a woman, outside of being a dyke, go to a barbers? The only women I saw in a barber shop were those doing the cutting and I ddin;t really fault them. SKill is skill when it comes to hair and I had no problem with a female barber worker.

Those complaining here are just moaning because they can and they want attention.

[HighSpeed_LowDrag]

Obviously I wish this guy best of luck in all his future endeavours, and am happy that he's sticking it to the SJW types...

...but £24 for a haircut? Seriously, that sounds expensive as fuck.

HSLD

[Oz.]

I cut my hair with a friend of mines from high school, he works in an old school barber shop where it's all men I have never seen a woman walk in there and I don't see why one would need to

[sylo]

Certainly sounds like a bright individual.

[Praetor Lupus]

(11-29-2014 02:50 PM)HighSpeed_LowDrag Wrote:  

...but £24 for a haircut? Seriously, that sounds expensive as fuck.

I'd expect to pay that for a decent cut.

It's funny how the complaining oxygen thieves would never go into his shops regardless of whether they were allowed to or not. They're whingeing about not being able to go into a place they normally wouldn't go into. I remember the men-only games room in the social club my grandad went into right up until his death earlier this year, and no one - male or female - thought once to complain about it.

If soiled tampons are being pushed through this guy's letterbox, I suppose that makes a change from smearing the contents across the cubicle walls in the ladies' facilities at work. Yes, in an office for a large, respectable company. More than once, according to the cleaners.

[britchard]

Great to see this guy isn't bowing in to any pressure.

[memcpy]

Piss off SJWs, get tweeted about, blogged about, and the more business you get. This man shows we can profit off of these SJW idiots by using the words "man-only" and other related words.

Does anyone have any other man-only business ideas?

So far all I can think of are
-Shoe shining
-Custom suit tailoring

But I don't think it creates the same culture as what the barber has going. I used to go to a barber shop like that but it's long gone.

[Brian Shima]

Why would he even announce that or make it policy, girls don't go into barber shops. Oh yeah to get his name out there!

[HighSpeed_LowDrag]

(11-29-2014 03:47 PM)memcpy Wrote:  

Does anyone have any other man-only business ideas?

So far all I can think of are
-Shoe shining
-Custom suit tailoring

Why think small?

Why not a mens-only department store?

Call it "The Man Store." One-stop shopping for all your masculine needs.

You have a weightlifting/sports section, a clothing section, a game materials section, etc; you have all the store attendants be sexually attractive females; heck, you could have a kids' section where you can leave your kids to play fun games like Whack-a-SJW and play pinata with Lindy West-shaped donkeys and read texts on the RedPill while you shop in peace ....

Tell me that wouldn't be awesome

HSLD

[Laner]

(11-29-2014 04:00 PM)HighSpeed_LowDrag Wrote:  

(11-29-2014 03:47 PM)memcpy Wrote:  

Does anyone have any other man-only business ideas?

So far all I can think of are
-Shoe shining
-Custom suit tailoring

Why think small?

Why not a mens-only department store?

Call it "The Man Store." One-stop shopping for all your masculine needs.

You have a weightlifting/sports section, a clothing section, a game materials section, etc; you have all the store attendants be sexually attractive females; heck, you could have a kids' section where you can leave your kids to play fun games like Whack-a-SJW and play pinata with Lindy West-shaped donkeys and read texts on the RedPill while you shop in peace ....

Tell me that wouldn't be awesome

HSLD

There is a whole top floor dedicated to mens clothes here in town. Express elevator, cafe with free espressos, often spiked with some Irish cream on winter days. Magazines and iPads and leather couches. Now every time I am there all the seats are full of women drinking coffee and browsing womens magazines and gossip columns.

I realized a long time ago that women just really want to be around men. Not because they find what we like interesting, but because they find us interesting.

[kaotic]

I completely agree with this, I usually get trimmed up at a barbershop.

I told my main girl to meet me at the barber shop, the door was open, saw me, saw all the guys, and didn't dare come in.

I'm glad she knew what was up, that and the fact she knew she'd be getting eye fucked every which way.

Then again it might show some status if she'd walk into that door, either way, women shouldn't be allowed to come into one.

They'll start screaming misogyny, "assault" by being hit on by guys, and maybe even rape.

[AnonymousBosch]

(11-29-2014 04:38 PM)Laner Wrote:  

I realized a long time ago that women just really want to be around men. Not because they find what we like interesting, but because they find us interesting.

Nah, they just find getting attention from attractive men interesting. Specifically, the type of attractive men who resemble the fantasy man she's pre-selected in her head to play his part in her pre-determined script of what she believes she deserves out of life.

Without attention from attractive men, they wither and die: mushroom haircut, Grimace bodies, mid-40's HR cunt unpleasant enough that everyone in the office can successfully guess when she's gotten laid.

[Helmutnl]

I suppose none of us ever wishes to have his hair cut by a girl, so I thought this article brings up a good point, maybe this is also feasible and doable in other departments or stores as well.

[Sidney Crosby]

FUCK.

This makes my blood boil. Some "woman" that identifies herself as "LGBT" had a gift certificate to a barbershop that does men's only cuts. The barber refused and she said this in the article

http://metronews.ca/news/hamilton/756588...arbershop/

"“There’s a barber out there who really needs some sensitivity,” she said, adding she’d like an apology and for the barber to undergo anti-oppression training. She also suggested he could offer free haircuts to women in need or make a donation to a sexual assault centre."

Look at this prize

[Helmutnl]

Wtf!! She looks more masculine than me!
These are female attempts to subject men right there!

[Dr. Howard]

(11-29-2014 03:13 PM)Oz. Wrote:  

I cut my hair with a friend of mines from high school, he works in an old school barber shop where it's all men I have never seen a woman walk in there and I don't see why one would need to

I go to an old school barbershop here in the south and the conversation is politics, black people (N-word is prevalent), new or closing businesses and who died. I do other work for the owner and often will sit and read the paper for another 20 min after getting my haircut just to finish the conversations.

I also went to a hipster place a while ago on buzzcut wednesdays or something like that where it was $5 men's haircuts from the apprentices while they blasted punk rock and metal. You could also bring in booze and it was downtown so it was like a pre-bar ritual.

both were great, and would be shut down in an instant by a woman a) for the racism or b) couldn't hear over the music or would be kraped by a drunk patron or would sue for a bad haircut.

[zaqan]

http://takimag.com/article/10_black_thin...nnes/print

Number 8.

[Hades]

That dyke prefers a man to cut her hair?

Sounds pretty fucking sexist to me.

[weambulance]

I think this is awesome, hope he doesn't end up getting screwed over. Of course it's in Britain, so... I'm sure he will. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in prison for hate crimes or something.

I don't have a problem getting my hair cut by a woman, though. I've never seen a female client in the barber I go to, but I'm pretty sure the place is owned by a woman and half the staff are women. Good haircuts, fair price, usually about $20 including a pretty generous tip.

I got my best haircuts ever on my FOB in Iraq. Those guys were old school, scissors only, with some kind of weird massage thing at the end that was more like smacking me with loosely clasped hands. I don't remember what country the barbers were from, Kuwait maybe? They weren't locals. The haircuts were $3 and I'd usually give 2-3 bucks tip. I have pictures of the hair style I had back then and I have never been able to get a US barber to replicate it.

[Helmutnl]

Now what would Roosh's opinion about this article be? I think all would like to know

[Days of Broken Arrows]

(11-29-2014 05:24 PM)Sidney Crosby Wrote:  

FUCK.

This makes my blood boil. Some "woman" that identifies herself as "LGBT" had a gift certificate to a barbershop that does men's only cuts. The barber refused and she said this in the article

http://metronews.ca/news/hamilton/756588...arbershop/

"“There’s a barber out there who really needs some sensitivity,” she said, adding she’d like an apology and for the barber to undergo anti-oppression training. She also suggested he could offer free haircuts to women in need or make a donation to a sexual assault centre."

Look at this prize

She neglects to mention that there are a myriad of female-only spaces, like Curves gym. Not that she's seen the inside of a gym lately...

[Duke Castile]

I got to a old school barbershop in Vegas. 20 bucks and I tip my guy 5.

There's photos of boxing on the wall and Micheal Jordan.

I think the owner is from Chicago.

I like the way it smells.

Conversley I used to get a haircut at this salon some asian lady owned and nothing but women and one gay filipino dude. I hated the way all that shit smelled. I always walked out with a headache.

[Soberane]

The only women at barbershop are, wives, girlfriends, and moms waiting their husbands, boyfriends, and sons, and many times they leave and come back when everything is done. I don't see women wanting to be in a barbershop.

[R Smoov]

(11-29-2014 05:24 PM)Sidney Crosby Wrote:  

Look at this prize

She got one of those "Barber please try to make me look like a man" haircuts.

Fuck the article, just laugh at how silly this bitch looks.