Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: mittmann@ral.rpi.EDU (Michael Mittmann) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: All I ask for is consistency Message-ID: <#}W^KZ&@rpi.edu> Date: 7 Jan 91 07:08:07 GMT References: Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 20 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu In article sdk91@campus.swarthmore.edu writes: >In article <}KT^Q~-@rpi.edu>, mittmann@ral.rpi.EDU (Michael Mittmann) writes... >>Hmm, Ok. I'm worried about the leagal results of allowing all-female >>groups but not all-male groups. I'm a tremendous believer in social >>momnetum, and am not willing to give females a legal advantage now, >>because when it comes to the time when I believe that it's no longer >>needed I don't believe that it will get repealed. > >I don't say that all all-male groups should be illegal. What I'm >trying to say is that I don't think people should participate in or >support single-sex organizations whose object is to maintain a sexist >status quo. If that involves passing a law against all-male corporate >dining clubs, so be it. I don't believe in outlawing groups because of the ideas that they support or advocate. So if you ask me, only moral way to do this is to make all all-male groups illegal, unfortunatly that's discrimination unless we do the same for females. -mike