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From: ganns@hound.UUCP (R.GANNS)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: re ladies night
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 09:12:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 09:12:29 1985
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I guess one could cook up a case for the idea that what we have here
is an issue of major social importance, sort of like the segregated
Alabama lunch counter, but I don't believe it.
I think that if a bar owner wants to encourage more women to come
to his/her establishment by tinkering with drink prices, then that
should be his/her business. One could argue that the next step is
to ban theatre owners from giving cheaper tickets to kids and
senior citizens. I too find the "meat market" atmosphere of a lot of
bars distasteful, so I simply avoid them; if a bar owner wants to
develop a particular atmosphere for his/her establishment, that's
their right. I tend to be suspicious of any sort of official social
engineering, though I will admit it occasionally seems necessary.

My basic feeling is that official interference (whether judicial or
legislative is irrelevant--net effect on individual same) should be
kept to a minimum. Clearly there are situations where it is necessary,
and I don't think that any general guidelines can be developed to
identify them consistently--they will be matters of subjective judgement
based on case-by-case details. This is one situation where I think that
any possible social value of the ban does not justify the
interference in the rights of the bar owners to run their businesses
as they see fit.   -- Rich ihnp4!hound!ganns