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From: brkirby@watmum.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Ladies' Night Illegal in California
Message-ID: <300@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 11:42:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 11:42:18 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Oct-85 04:47:18 EDT
References: <696@rtech.UUCP> <4468@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: brkirby@watmum.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <4468@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> The California Supreme Court just ruled that ladies' nights in bars and other
>> businesses are illegal because they discriminate on the basis of gender.  No
>> kidding, this is for real.  I just heard it on the 11:00 news.
>
>I wonder why the court thinks "ladies' nights" are any different from
>any other Affirmative Action program.  My understanding is that the
>usual reason for such affairs is to attempt to remedy the great
>preponderance of men in these bars.  By giving women economic
>incentives to visit the bar, they hope to remedy the sexual imbalance
>in their establishment.

   ladies' nights are not designed to be an Affirmative Action
program. The bars that have them tend, to varying degrees, to be of
the Meat Market variety, and realize that the best way to attract men
is to get as many women as possible. It is the men who drink the most,
and provide the most revenue.  The goal of the bar is simply to make
money, not produce a sexual balance, because the number of men will
increase along with the number of women.