Actor Ricky Gervais weighs in on Canada's transgender ball-waxing controversy
It's a sad state of affairs when a lady can't have her hairy balls waxed.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) July 20, 2019
- British Actor Ricky Gervais of 'The Office' and 'Night at the Museum' fame commented on current controversial case in Canada involving transwoman activist Jessica Yaniv vs 16 waxing and esthetic salons
- Jessica Yaniv sued the, mostly immigrant owned, home beauty services for human rights abuse denouning their transphobia for refusing to serve a client because they didn't have the 'right' genitalia
- The home salons argued that they refused Yaniv as a client because their religion prevent them from touching male genitalia, they work at home with children around and/or they lack of expertise/equipment to wax male genitalia
- Yaniv is suing these beauty salons for $500,000
- Ricky Gervais tweeted about this case defending the beauty salons and thus engaged in a 'Twitter fight' with feminists and trans right activists
Here's some of the mess :
How did we get to the point where women are having to fight for the right to choose whether they wax some big old hairy cock & balls or not? It is not a human right to have your meat & 2 veg polished.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) July 21, 2019
Surely real feminism also covers a woman’s right not to have to wax someone’s knob & bollocks if they don’t want to. https://t.co/RqsrtQs42o
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) July 21, 2019
If a lady wants smooth bollocks then she should be able to force people to wax them. It’s the rules.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) July 20, 2019
Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4
But if not then I can see the issue.
If I had balls this would statement would definitely make me not want that specific esthetician anywhere near them lol.
Anyway the comments on this post are gonna be fuckin wild.
lol mte
Sounds like a nightmare.
Tho tbh the thought of waxing balls in general makes me cringe.
Yeah I agree. Just like I wouldn't want a hairstylist who isn't experienced with my hair type or the cut/color I want. Or how I wouldn't want a mechanic who isn't experienced with a car repair I'd need. It's a fair refusal imo.
I couldn't imagine getting the waxed. Like do you get them cold so they're more stiff to not move so you can pull?
srry easier to just include the text in the request
“Permission for LGBTQ2S+ organizations to be allowed to host an ‘All-Bodies Swim’ at TOL [Township of Langley] civic pools…for people aged 12+ where these events will be restricted to LGBTQ2S and individuals will be permitted to be topless (at their leisure), in compliance with the laws of Canada and where parents and caretakers will be prohibited from attending these events as it’s considered safe and inclusive.”
Edited at 2019-07-23 08:49 pm (UTC)
lol @ giving them a platform and not throwing their ass in jail after all those comments surfaced
e: Ricky Gervais is a douchebag as always.
Edited at 2019-07-23 08:48 pm (UTC)
she gets a shit ton of creeps calling in though asking about extra services, so she'll only book men if they come in in person and hopefully sense if they're not up to something.
Edited at 2019-07-24 03:04 am (UTC)
Don’t act like this case (and others) is exposing issues with self ID laws. Men are using them to harm women. And if women (both trans and cis) bring that up they’re called TERFs or told they’re transphobic.
Edited at 2019-07-23 11:29 pm (UTC)
It’s fucking bullshit
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