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Out of Complianceto “go in compliance” before she would be allowed to have her test! She atfirst thought the officer thought she had shorts on instead of long pants,but no, he said, “Go shave your face.” In fact, Kango does have facialhair, but she also has a chrono from a doctor stating that she can have itand keep it trimmed. She had tried to remove the hair with cream, butit burned her face. Plucking left marks, and shaving made her break out.The dermatologist sided with her that she was better off to just leave thehair on her chin. But, whenever officers demand she shave her face, shehas to produce the chrono.Visa, an aggressive stud, also has facial hair. Staff have said to her,“Get that fucking shit off your face!” But Visa is on A yard where razorsaren’t allowed. “So, I’ve got to get mistreated with the verbal abuse” whenshe cannot fulfill the demands of the grooming standards. Mike mentionedthat most prisoners who have facial hair do shave, complying withthe expectations of femininity.According to Brownmiller in her classic work, Femininity, “speech isan assertive act… and male and female are schooled in different ways.” 16The voice pitch, pronunciation, tone, vocabulary, females ending a sentenceas if asking a question—all aspects of speech are gendered. “Womenare not supposed to be authoritative.” 17 To be verbally aggressive is to belike men, who are trained to be argumentative and assertive. Females, onthe other hand, should reflect their passivity and support roles in theirmanner of speech. Consequently, tone of voice is a major issue for theaggressives and masculine women I interviewed. Insane spoke for manyindividuals when he said, “You respect me, I’ll respect you. You don’trespect me, I don’t respect you…. You’re not going to take all my dignityfrom me just trying to talk to me like I’m nobody on the face of the earth.”He continued, “They take your disposition as being a threatening manner,or if we have an argument, you talking crazy to me, I talk back crazy toyou, you step, I step, you know your hands are in the arguing, the firstthing they’re gonna do is take you to ad seg.” 18“Not being submissive to staff,” “being an aggressive speaker,” and“tone of voice” were just ahead of “clothing” and “appearance regulation”as difficulties these masculine-identified prisoners faced. Kool felt thatstereotyping by staff has a lot to do with her problems. She said,they do not try to get to know me, they don’t want to know me, theytake one look at me and feel like I’m this evil mean bitch because I’mdark-skinned. I walk kind of boyish-like, I’m into my own little world,199