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Originally Posted by Pierre
Policemen should not wear earings .
Policemen should be approachable by the general public. Policemen wearing studs with short or shaven heads would just looklike thugs.
The police should have certain standards, and this equality B.S. should be nipped in the bud.
It's bad enough that they have scrapped the old entrance requirements for police (Height, weight etc). Short, fat, unfit police are not going to get the respect police deserve.
The police is trying to be all things to all people, and it can't be. The police are there to keep the peace, get physical when required and keep a profile of respectability. Studs in the ears of male officers would not fit into the latter.
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I think you're taking that to the extreme, I understood what he was on about - and that wasn't it.
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How is it any more appropriate for a women to wear an earing to a man?? exept by an outdated and discriminatory standard?
At the same time a butch, skinheaded woman may be percieved as a thug/lesbian (regardless of the earing) should skinheaded women be discriminated against for the same reason as you and towny have stated???