Not sure what you mean by "they" - I was referring to your comment that "Non-female" says "No girls allowed!"
I was still talking about OTW, and your statement about testing "we honur our female etc." vs a statement about honoring male etc. etc.
I was saying that a predominately female space is equivalent in terms of exclusion to a predominately male space.
I think you are wrong. I don't think you can say, "Well, if it would be bad when we treat group Y in such a fashion, then it must be wrong when we treat group X" that way. Sometimes groups X and Y are different, either because of innate differences or historical or social ones. And men and women are sufficiently different for historical and cultural reasons that saying, "Well, it would suck if men did it" isn't necessarily a reason for women not to do it.
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Date: 2008-01-14 12:31 am (UTC)I was still talking about OTW, and your statement about testing "we honur our female etc." vs a statement about honoring male etc. etc.
I think you are wrong. I don't think you can say, "Well, if it would be bad when we treat group Y in such a fashion, then it must be wrong when we treat group X" that way. Sometimes groups X and Y are different, either because of innate differences or historical or social ones. And men and women are sufficiently different for historical and cultural reasons that saying, "Well, it would suck if men did it" isn't necessarily a reason for women not to do it.