Women continue to practise sexism, despite claiming they want equal rights?
The club is called The Black Out Room and takes place in The Aberdeen Hotel, in Perth. The comments on Facebook have been, well not entirely happy about things. This has galvanised the two women, running the club, into a defiance.
This is not the first time that Australia has set up openly misandrist venues. There was a vegan cafe, "Handsome Her" which opened up in Melbourne in 2017 which openly charged men more to use the cafe. Men enjoyed an 18% surchage to cover the widely debunked Gender Pay Gap.
2 Years later and Handsome Her had to close down. It feels that running a business is tough enough but is even harder if you are openly discriminating against 50% of your potential customer base.
The thing is, these ventures force us to ask what sort of society we want to be. If we are going to be truly equal rights, then we need to practise what we preach. People can't be discriminated on because of their gender. If we're going to accept we're not doing that, then we should just accept that. We need to stop, Private Member's Clubs in London, from starting to admit women if they choose not to. Otherwise we end up with a supremacy with women freedom to go anywhere, join anything, and men held back. This just leads to resentment and provides a ready made audience for Andrew Tate and his cretins.
I believe in a free world, where people are free. I believe people should NOT be held back based on gender with free opportunities for all. It's a shame that not anyone shares that goal which makes it even harder for us to reach it.
I notice that you describe certain venues in Australia as “openly misandrist” in this article. So, I am genuinely curious if you have or would ever, use the phrase “openly misogynist” to describe a men’s only space (for example, Masonic lodges or anywhere else a woman’s admittance would be frowned upon.
ReplyDeleteAnd if not, why is that?
We either have equal rights, equal access to spaces or we do not. I am egalatarian and so believe equal access is what we should do.
DeleteThat doesn’t answer my question lol
DeleteP.s. I would like to mention that I am glad you profess to support equal rights and access for spaces and it’s an ideal and noble endeavor in many ways which I would agree with you on (I do disagree that more specific spaces which cater to more specific demographics should not exist). Though the egalitarian viewpoint is not necessarily an impression I get from reading the blog posts. I guess in my view if it was about equality, it seems like there would be more of a comparison or side-by-side between ideas of improvements which can be made for both men and women and other gender identities or in some cases, people as a whole.
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