Friday, June 27, 2008

Again with the Separate but Equal

"As teenage boys saunter into the sumptuously appointed men’s grill room, their mothers are relegated to the ladies’ grill, down the hall with a hot plate, some card tables and no bar. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/us/28countryclub.html?hp

"Mr. LaRocca said the attorney general’s findings were “not binding” and that he hoped “it would not come” to a lawsuit. The renovated club will have the same formal dining room now used by men and women, and separate male and female grill rooms but with “equivalent accommodations,” he added."

So what if separate really is equal? Will the men squeal when the governor is in the Ladies' Grille making deals with female businesspeople, shutting the men out from potentially lucrative situations?

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