All valid points but, personally, I just don't think the solution is to create a 'women only' response. In this example a gym should be a place where anyone can go, and feel comfortable, irrespective of gender, race etc. That is the 'right' that should be fought for. And society is getting there. Setting up a seperate gym to exclude men does not seem like a pro-active way to fight sexism, or any 'ism'.
. Doesn't bear thinking about. I think I'd seriously have to move home.
To be honest I don't feel like its a weakly perceived injuctice towards me. I just don't think, in the long run, that providing 'women only' establishments is the solution to issues around sexism. Its an acknowledgment of clear problems with sexism in that specific environment, but not a solution.
It's a very subtle argument and to make comparisons like you have done ignores these subtlties and can lead to a sullying of the argument around it (not accusing you of that by the way).
Yes, we should tackle discrimmination, but we have to protect the most vunerable first of all. We don't call the fact women and men don't compete head to head in tennis together discrimminatory, because we know it's beneficial for them not to - we don't call discrimmination on it because we accept those differences. A woman's only gym accepts as a premise that woman are vunerable in a gym in a manner in which men generally are not. It accepts this premise and the fact that it's still open and people use it, should indicate that the problem isn't with the gym being discrimminatory, but that the men who are responsible for it's existence in the first place by creating an atmosphere in other gyms where a woman's only gym was not only socially exceptable enough to work, but also, I would imagine thrive as a business; it is they who discrimminated in a harmful way.
A woman's only gym is a defensive measure against sexism, a gym for anyone of a certain colour is racially discrimminatory. That can't be painted any other way.
Surely this is a joke, right? Or maybe the Tories think after Boris they can get anyone elected.
Campbell can't even string a coherent sentence together in public. How the fuck is he going to be mayor? I know Boris is a bumbling idiot, but at least he's got a certain charm.
Imagine if the **** wins though
Diane Abbott any day of the week even if I didn't follow football I could never vote for a millionaire complaining about having to pay £3000 tax on a 2 million pound house.
