The facility I frequented had a women-only room which appeared to have the same machines in it as the rest of the gym. Lord *knows* what was going on in those women-only facilities!
While I was scanning the document and writing the post, I was talking to my 14yo son about it. He didn't understand what was wrong with having a place where women could go to be away from men if that's what they wanted. Good libertarian thinking!
I asked him what he thought of a gym for only white people. "Oh, that would be racist!" I told him this gym issue is the same type of thing, only sexist. Discrimination is discrimination. He said, "But racism is worse." I asked why. "It just is." Damn, the public school brainwashing sneaked in despite my best training!
We discussed. I told him if they wanted to discriminate, to make their own private club or get their own equipment in their garage. We as a society have determined that we don't want places of business, which are semi-public places, to be able to discriminate against people because of their skin color, sex, religion, etc--that's just not the kind of society that we want. And that's why this ruling is the way it is.
I received this in the mail yesterday.
Yes.
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The facility I frequented had a women-only room which appeared to have the same machines in it as the rest of the gym. Lord *knows* what was going on in those women-only facilities!
ReplyDeleteLord *knows* what was going on in those women-only facilities!
ReplyDeleteRemember Darren, Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Does this mean I can get a membership to work out at "Curves" now? ;)
ReplyDeleteI was wondering the same thing.
ReplyDeleteInteresting story:
ReplyDeleteWhile I was scanning the document and writing the post, I was talking to my 14yo son about it. He didn't understand what was wrong with having a place where women could go to be away from men if that's what they wanted. Good libertarian thinking!
I asked him what he thought of a gym for only white people. "Oh, that would be racist!" I told him this gym issue is the same type of thing, only sexist. Discrimination is discrimination. He said, "But racism is worse." I asked why. "It just is." Damn, the public school brainwashing sneaked in despite my best training!
We discussed. I told him if they wanted to discriminate, to make their own private club or get their own equipment in their garage. We as a society have determined that we don't want places of business, which are semi-public places, to be able to discriminate against people because of their skin color, sex, religion, etc--that's just not the kind of society that we want. And that's why this ruling is the way it is.
I hope he'll ponder this.
Ladies Night has been illegal since the California Supreme Court unanimously said so in 1985. Look up Koire v Metro Car Wash. See also:
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