Lately I’ve been to quite a few bars and brewpubs, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ladies night. I don’t go to bars to pick up women, I’m not that kind of person. About 95% of the time I’m there to meet people I already know and to hang out and have a good time. So even though I love the ladies, Ladies Night is discriminatory for me because I don’t give a crap if more women are there or not.
I thought that was the least common multiple.
I’ll plead “common colloquial expression”; perhaps it’s an Americanism … or perhaps it’s wonderfully ironic that my little anti-egalitarianism rant should contain an incorrect usage meant to insure that the message could be understood by even the least educated reader.
Hmmm. I lived in a “no kids” apartment complex when I was in college in the 70s, but a little research shows that most states prohibit those now. I didn’t know that.
Interestingly, in Montana, if the owners of a duplex live in one unit, they can specify no children in the other unit according to this state-by-state breakdown.
Means the same thing (IOW, you’re right but so are they).
And thus…a gay bar was born.
Well I’m not sure how great it is but it sure looks like a debate.
When you say “we’re” do you mean as in not me? Geez, I thought I was in on the discussion pretty much from the beginning.
And I thought discount pricing on the basis of gender was understood to be illegal. Hence we can no longer have “ladies nights.” The question was what constitutes discrimination as in the “ladies night” example. And whether beauty parlors can charge women more than they charge men without it being discrimination.
Do you follow now?
Regards,
Lou
The OP was specifically asking about whether ladies nights were legal. So your thoughts about what is and isn’t generally understood are incorrect.
Read the title of the post. “Is it legal” indicates a factual question on legality. And confined to legality, as per the rules and customs of General Questions.
If you would like to gently opine of the merits of our laws, take it to IMHO; to open up a no holds barred debate take it to Great Debates.
Don’t forget car insurance!
Here in London it’s very common for bars to make it difficult for male groups to come in (and by group I just mean “more than 1 person”), but have no restriction on women coming in.
Indeed, if I’m out with, say, 2 male friends it’s not at all uncommon for a bouncer to just directly say “Oh, you don’t have any girls…Sorry, you can’t come in unless there are girls in your group”.
While this leads to a disproportionate number of women in many venues, I would prefer that there wasn’t this aggro.
If there really are too many guys I’ll see for myself and leave (or not: I don’t necessarily want to meet girls every time I go out).
As far as a woman’s clothing goes, that fact that they are more to buy and clean is not discriminatory. If I take my wife’s dress to get dry cleaned they aren’t going to charge me more than they would charge her. Here the difference is based on the service, not the customer. It’s like the barbers who charge X for one length of hair and Y for a different length.