Comments on: Rudy’s serves it up

By: chau

chau — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:54:13 +0000

holy chau is right. nice play on words!

By: kayvaan

kayvaan — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:16:50 +0000

holy chau! lighten up, dude.

By: chau

chau — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:27:34 +0000

Ha, i’m not even "enlightened" enough to know how to leave a link. have to do it the old school way, copy and paste:

http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/segregated.htm

By: chau

chau — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:25:50 +0000

Nah, I reject that the South was less "enlightened" than the Pacific Northwest when it came to segregation and racism. People are people and hate is hate, no matter the country or state you live in. Here's some enlightenment for you: .

By: comte

comte — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:14:31 +0000

chau,

Except for the fact that such blatant segregation was never a cultural norm, "old school" or otherwise, in this part of the country; whereas, nudie mags in men’s barbershops seems to be pretty much a universal cultural norm.

And so long as they give equal time to the ladies (Playgirl, Cosmo, whatev), and the objectification is equally distributed, then fair’s fair.

By: chau

chau — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:35:53 +0000

hmmm…sure, i guess i’m down with Rudys continuing the objectification of women. I mean, if thats what "old school" barber shops did then hell, why not keep on doing it?

I’m from the south and not too long ago barber shops forbade African Americans from getting their haircuts in "white" establishments.

If we follow the "old school" logic then Rudys should make a "coloreds" section in the back of the barber shop away from the rest of the white customers. That would really make the look "cool and hard", right?

I’m just sayin’.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:17:02 +0000

Since when did Sound on the Sound start publishing a print edition?

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:33:56 +0000

It may be hip and edgy, but… doesn’t Rudy’s give women haircuts too? And if so, did they also have similar reading material for the women? Well, I guess they probably do have Cosmo, which is about as close as it gets, right? But still… that would make me a bit uncomfortable, I guess.

By: kayvaan

kayvaan — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:49:33 +0000

Ryan – djbones and tonyb are totally right. Playboys and Penthouses in old school barbershops is like peanutbutter and jelly. They’ve gone together for ages. When I was a kid EVERY barbershop had girlie mags. It was part of the whole "Gentlemen’s Club" vibe of barbershops.

It doesn’t happen as much anymore but I am pretty sure that’s what Rudy’s is going for.

But yeah – I see what you’re saying, since Rudy’s isn’t REALLY an old-school barbershop it may feel a bit more affected.

Gotta Love Rudy’s.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:42:24 +0000

djbones: Totally not offended. Simply amused and curious. The positioning of the magazines almost seemed staged. It was like a marketing guy told them to do it so they would seem more edgy. It was an odd scene.

tony: Interesting story. I guess I grew up in a more sanitized environment because the barber I went to as a kid (it was an actual barbershop and not a chain salon) never had that kind of stuff. In retrospect, my 8 to 15 year old self sort of wishes he did!