Posted on 04/02/2014 3:02:52 AM PDT by markomalley
Approximately 6,000 people have signed a petition claiming the U.S. Army's new grooming regulations are "racially biased" against "women with ethnically diverse hair."
According TIME, "soldiers and civilians signed a White House petition" asking the Army to "reconsider" the new regulations, which bar "twists, both flat twists as well as two strand twists; as well as dreadlocks, which are defined as 'any matted or locked coils or ropes of hair.'"
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I thought the same thing when I read it.
It’s a tupid use of the phrase, even by PC standards.
Of course, it was written by a “journalist”.
Edit: meant razor, not trimmer. Got I hate those things.
The military is not a jobs program. If you want to do things your way go work at Burger King.
I can understand about hair growing inside the skin. I’ve had that problem once or twice in my life in a couple of places where the hair really grew and I had to pull it out from under the skin with a needle.
I can imagine that naturally curly facial hair would be more of a problem, and there were undoubtedly some black soldiers who really had that problem. In my case during my enlistment though, I saw way too many and a lot of them were letting their beard growth push the boundaries IMO.
No neatness at all when it comes to dreadlocks. Go ahead - call me racist!
What’s next? Perhaps allowing recruits to wear fatigues “gangsta style” with their underwear showing. It will be hard to run in those though…...
I requested a lighter buzz cut upon completion of basic in 68 as getting married - I know. The DI made it a point to have all evidence of hair and some skin removed. Hurt to the point of tears. No favors...mow em all.
I know the smell well, have worked with guitarists who wear dreads. I used to want to spray ‘em with Old Spice.
How will that work out for NBC gear, firefighting gear aboard ships etc.
The really stupid thing on display here is that nobody in charge seems to know history or reality well enough to remember or figure out that the whole reason for the requirement of short hair, which has been in known since the time of the Romans... was that long hair is a serious vulnerability that your opponent can grab and hold in a hand to hand situation. Dreads would be even easier to hold on to then loose hair!
But the truth is, now that they put women in harms way, everyone already knows that if she gets into the situation where long hair could be a vulnerability....she is already screwed.
So I would argue this is a reason she doesn’t belong in the military but I’m old fashioned. But the same reason could be used to say it doesn’t matter what they do with their hair.
Ask Absalom... long hair didn’t work out so well for him in a military situation.
The whole point is to knock down all the standards.
Crying “racism” has been very effective in this agenda.
I hear ya...but the way things are headed, it’ll be “racist” just for a person of color to see a white person.
What a bunch of LIB race-baiting twaddle. Cut your hair short...STFU.
“So I would argue this is a reason she doesn’t belong in the military but I’m old fashioned. “
Certainly many jobs should be restricted to males. We lost a sailor this week because a female watchstander had her weapon taken away from her and PO2 Mark Mayo saved her life by giving his.
Same in the 1960s when blacks would on purpose scrape their skin with single blade razors (Gillette blue blades or the new Wilkinson stainless single blades) to get allowances for growing a beard.
Those who failed to get the shaving waver would grow a small tuft of whiskers just below the bottom lip.
I was in from 76-84, and I don't recall one instance of a Black officer with folliculitis.
1968 through 1976, here. I was enlisted and didn’t get to hang around officers much. I saw enough of these cases for it to have stuck with me all these years.
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