Ponytails are OK until next spring, Army says in updated grooming message

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Ponytails are OK until next spring, Army says in updated grooming message
By JEREMY STILLWAGNER
STARS AND STRIPES • July 26, 2023
 


Female soldiers may wear ponytails for at least another year, according to a recent message on grooming and appearance standards from the Army’s personnel office.

The service loosened its hairstyle regulations in an April 2021 memo that permitted women to wear ponytails in all uniforms, within limits, rather than the previously mandated hair buns.

The same memo allowed female soldiers to wear stud earrings and lipstick and nail polish in “non-extreme” colors, while donning the Army Combat Uniform. Troops may also wear highlights in their hair, provided the colors blend together and present a “professional and natural appearance.”

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-07-26/army-ponytails-hair-grooming-appearance-10858780.html

[rangerrebew]

This is clearly discrimination against men.  If, as military wokeness maintains, there is no difference between men and women, why do the men not get to wear ponytails?  And how can they discriminate by sex if there is no difference between the sexes?