AIBU to mention scrotum-waxing?

Not a job I would relish.I wouldn't have thought it a job for a beautician, just think what could go wrong. If the client wants it done can't they do it themselves at least they could limit the pain. I wouldn't go down there doing that for either sex, it makes my eyes water thinking of it.

I thought my first post made it clear that I was as concerned as other Gransnetters about the story behind this. Yaniv's legal action is appalling, and very worrying. My secondary point was based on my puzzlement that there should have been a reference to penis waxing, and was, if anything, intended to be lighthearted.

I thought that Gonegirl's response, which had she been of my sex would have been derided as mansplaining, deserved a reply, and I am sorry if gransal found it "odd and uncomfortable". Perhaps matters on Gransnet touching on male private parts should not be commented on by men.

This case exposes some of the possible ramifications of gender self-identification.
www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/19/canadas-bizarre-trans-waxing-controversy/

Btw, Top Shop already has gender neutral changing rooms.

Yaniv is now pursuing legal action against the women, hoping that his right to call himself a woman will be judged to overrule their right to choose to work only with biologically female customers.

Given the way things now are, in Canada, it is by no means certain which way the court will rule.

As GillT57 says, this could be happening in the UK soon.

In between some pointless and smutty comments, a few people on here have actually worked out what is important about this story. British Columbia in Canada has passed legislation permitting people to self identify their gender. This cruel and perverted person has used this legislation to extort money from beauticians working in their own homes. He makes bookings using a fake female entity and when s/he turns up asking for a Brazilian wax and reveals his full tackle he then threatens the women with court proceedings for refusing. Many women have paid him money to stop charges and then packed their business in. This pervert is protected by law and is able to go into female changing rooms. There are moves afoot to bring similar legislation to the UK so before you snigger or say it has nothing to do with you; think again. Would you like grown men in the changing room at Primark with your granddaughter and her friends?

What a very odd and uncomfortable post.

Thank you, Gonegirl. In spite of my advanced years I am still sufficiently well equipped to know that in the highly unlikely event of wanting my scrotum waxed, my penis would have to be moved out of the firing line, as it were. I am also aware that there is no hair on the penis; that was the point of my third paragraph, which commented on specific references in the article to penis-waxing.

Mumsnet's welcome to it.

The posts from Yaniv are pervy in my opinion.

grumpa not grandad

There is no hair on the penis Grandad. They have to lift the penis to get to the hair on the scrotum.

There's worse from the individual's Twitter feed.

"I think my period is going to start on Wednesday when I'm travelling to Victoria and going on the ferry and my first day is usually very heavy so I'm going to have to change my pad often. Every single time I take that ferry to the island, there's field trips with 10-12 year old girls on it, each and every time. If I'm in the bathroom and a girl asks me for a pad or tampon and potentially help on how to use it, if it's her first period..what do I do?"

People can find themselves doing all sorts of things in the necessity to earn money.

Yaniv has targeted immigrant women, often working from their own homes and often with poor skills in the English language.

Yaniv appears to have some seriously bigoted views towards immigrants which raises a question around her intent when reaching out to many small waxing salons rather than say a larger or more specialized operation which would be equipped to deal with men.

This is a very unpleasant and in one respect weird story.

It is unpleasant because a "fully equipped" man is seeking to put vulnerable women in an embarrassing position, a sort of deviant variation of the case of the Belfast baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding.

It is weird because there are two references to penis waxing. I thought the purpose of waxing was to remove hair, but in all my life (which includes rugby clubhouse communal baths) I have never seen hair on a penis.

You really haven’t been on here long tedber if you think we are all stuff shirts, oh my, no you haven’t I wasn’t shocked at all by your post but I didn’t find it particularly funny
Why anyone would consider a career in shaving either scrotums or labia is beyond me can you imagine last year at school, teacher to class... John what would you like to do when you leave school, ‘a train driver’ says John and ‘Jane’, ‘a dancer miss’ and Susan ‘a scrotum shaver miss’

Good job I previewed that Scrotums came out as croutons and I don’t want to shave them either

I've read about this individual on MN, they also like to describe their heavy periods. It seems we are entering strange times when society is expected to go along with such misnomers .

Farnorth where and how on earth did you did that bit of journalism up!

Actually it's him or he wouldn't have that particular hit.

No they shouldn't have to do it. It's not what beauticians signed up for. Let him/her wax his/her own bits.

I just think the world has gone mad, with all this trans stuff and their imagined rights,

Tedber in your effort to have some fun you didn't even bother to read the link, as you said.

We've all had lives and some of us still do have but this is a serious topic, which you would have seen had you read the link, before telling your funny anecdote.

I wasn't offended by your post but thought it out of place.

It's going to be a long school holiday!!!!!

Tedber ????????

Do you have any views on the actual topic Tedber?