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Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors (www.bbc.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

down with gender but who is making a stink about women's only spaces?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The case is slightly more complicated than the comments indicate. The lawsuit hinged on the women only space being one exhibit in a general admission event; basically someone is making a stink because they paid full price and then were denied access to one thing in it.

I’m not commenting at all here about my feelings on the topic, just trying to relay facts.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if they think it would be ok for the women to be in the men's bathrooms at the same museum? Sure there are separatel women's bathrooms, but do the women's bathrooms have urinals for them to use if they wanted to?

I don't think there should be a women only space in a general museum, except to make a point, but the cost of admission is not the argument to win that fight. If it's to make a point, it shouldn't be enforced.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah, I can’t get behind that as an argument.

The restrooms aren’t an exhibit that you pay for, and it’s common knowledge when you buy a ticket that you won’t be able to use the restroom of the opposite gender as a general rule. Seems a bit hyperbolic.

My personal take: just disclose this at the time of purchase. A simple asterisk on the general admission info noting that some exhibits will be [insert blocking restriction] would make the problem go away.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago

Restrooms that are past the ticket barrier require a ticket. The ticket/museum discloses the fact that its female only prior to purchase, so common knowledge doesn't play a part.

I agree, its a poor argument, but its the same argument about something different on offer, that is accepted to discriminate.

The fact that there is an exemption in the law to allow for things like this bit they deem it doesn't seems wrong to me.

However, the point of the piece seems to be to highlight discrimination and get people to think about it, so its achieved its purpose, if arts purpose can be measured.