Yeah, check out their website. Not nearly high-end enough to pass for that.

Given that I myself am currently in the process of sorting out whether I’m actually trans, have been doing a ton of reading around the subject and typed the original comment at around midnight my time, maybe you should try taking my word for it and not calling me a liar. Or, you know, keep being a presumptuous…

God, for a split second, I thought you were serious and was about to type, “Um, it looks like a woman with a short haircut.” What is this world bringing me to?

Guy Barbieri?

Anyway, this sounds more like a traditional gentlemen’s club than a barber shop, what with the drinks and books and all.

I don’t suppose you’re in the DC area and would be willing to pass on the name of this barber, by any chance? I’m looking for a place for when I move back, and I’m thinking I might go the barber route (I already have super short hair in a boyish style cut). Getting my hair cut every four to five weeks to the tune of a…

As someone who has considered going to a barbershop when I get back to the States:

Hopefully Yehudit-style:

It was a typo, and it’s now (way) too late to edit the post, but thanks for the condescending lesson about how adjectives work.

At first, I was not for it. I thought, ‘I’m a traditionalist.’ I kind of liked tradition, and it’s always been that if you were born male, you’re a man, and if you’re born female, you’re a woman. And I’m thinking, ‘I don’t quite get it.’ But as time has gone on, I think like a lot of people on this issue have really…

I’m not telling you what your feelings are on the matter.

In cases where I’ve done this, I’ve just put in cash to cover my share. And frankly, sympathetic as I am to the plight of waitstaff (seriously, waiting tables was not my ideal job at all), if the worst thing that happens that night is a two-top asking to split a check, they’re probably doing okay. I tip well; they’ll…

Yeah, reading through the comments, I can understand why guys are reluctant to let the woman pay, even if she says she wants to. I think the game playing and “testing” on the part of women who do this is completely manipulative and wrong, incidentally. Of course, that begs the question of whether anyone should really w…

Not even remotely the same. If someone’s giving me a birthday present, I probably already know them (and if I didn’t, then no, I wouldn’t accept the gift), there’s probably not the possibility of some vague idea that the gift then means that I “owe” that person sexually in exchange, and giving a gift in return is not…

Seriously. I can understand guys being reluctant to let me pay for fear that it’s some kind of a test, and they lose points if they let me chip in (which is so not the case for me, but it sounds like a lot of guys have been burned by that before, so fair enough), but we’re both grown-ass adults- there’s no reason for…

If/when I find said nerdier dating circles, I’ll let you know. I find that board game meetups or similar are a good place to start. Or trivia nights, sometimes, although they do tend to be a bit guy- heavy. And as they say, sometimes the odds are good, but the goods are odd. Heh.

How is it more work for the server? I usually just bring enough cash to put in my share- if the guy has cash, he can do the same. If he wants to use his credit or debit card, he just takes the cash. I worked at a restaurant all through high school, incidentally, so I’m not totally unfamiliar with how waiting tables…

That girl sounds like a piece of work. Why the hell can’t people just be up front about what they want? Stuff like this is why dating sucks.

Yeah, I had no idea that that many women were using it as a weird test for their date. Fucking gross, plus it makes it harder for people like me who actually do want to help cover the cost of the date.

Guilty on the world traveling thing (although that’s also a requirement for my job), but on the others? Not so much. More like video gaming/comic book reading/Star Trek binge watching. Maybe I just need to make a conscious effort to move in nerdier dating circles?