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- From: wdickeson@mta.ca
- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination
- Subject: Re: Nightclubs: Females pay less
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.154501.7086@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:45:01 GMT
- References: <11851@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada
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- In article <11851@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman) writes:
- >Hi there
- >
- >I heard an ad on the radio last night, in which a nightclub ADVERTISED
- >different cover charges for males and females (females could get in for
- >about half the price of males).
- >
- >From my contacts in the nightclub industry, I understand that this is because
- >females will go where it is cheap, whereas males will go where there are
- >females.
- >
- >What I can't understand is why this is not seen as sexual discrimination.
-
- Well, frankly it is sexual discrimination. Yet in our society in general
- there is an alarming acceptance of sexual discrimination reverted back
- at males. I don't pretend to be an expert on the subject but my examples
- would be the sham of a woman's "right" to abortions, the fact that many
- custody battles are won by the mother as an accepted rule, and higher
- car insurance rates for males.
- Starr
-
- >
- >Also, what would happen if the reverse was true? I'm sure the government-funded
- >women's lobby would pounce. Unfortunately, there does not exist a similar
- >body for men, and most attempts to create one are seen as chauvinist.
-
-
- >
- >Later,
- >Murray
- >--
- >-- Murray Chapman Zheenl Punczna --
- >-- muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au zhmmyr@pf.hd.bm.nh --
- >-- University of Queensland Havirefvgl bs Dhrrafynaq --
- >-- Brisbane, Australia Oevfonar, Nhfgenyvn --
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