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Last week, the Alamo Drafthouse announced women-only Wonder Woman screenings at its original location in Austin, Texas. Their popularity led Alamo to bring similar screenings for women and those who identify as women to other markets, including Brooklyn which sold out three screenings that will benefit Planned Parenthood. The famously lively movie theater chain tweaked whiners who complained on social media that the screenings were discriminatoryand that attracted the attention of Albany Law School professor Stephen Clark.
"There was a vibrant argument happening on Facebook. But when the theater responded to complaints, they were pretty snide about it and willing to mock anyone who had a complaint and that really struck me," he told the Washington Post. And after looking at Austin's city code, he filed a complaint with a city agency.
He alleged that the Drafthouses women-only event as it was described in the theaters advertising discriminated against male customers based on their gender. Citing the theaters promise to staff only women at the events, Clark also alleged that the Drafthouse was illegally engaging in employment discrimination.
Its the principle of the thing, he told The Post. Im a gay man, and Ive studied and taught gay rights for years. Our gay bars have long said that you do not exclude people because theyre gay or straight or transgender you just cant do that for any reason.
We have to deal with the bachelorette parties that come to the gay bar, he added. Theyre terribly disruptive, but if you forbid women from coming to a gay bar, youre starting down a slippery slope. Its discrimination.
http://gothamist.com/2017/06/03/wonder_woman_human_rights_complaint.php
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)Is he going to sue Curves now too?
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(52,575 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)OH, the horror!
NYC Liberal
(20,141 posts)Orrex
(63,318 posts)At those events, for instance, women might pay only half price for drinks and/or not be charged a cover. Should these gender-specific practices be outlawed?
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SFnomad
(3,473 posts)I'm sure they'd get around it. If not, they could use the "sincerely held belief" excuse.
Wounded Bear
(58,828 posts)If they never allowed men to see the movie ever, they would have standing I think. Just having selected screenings being women only hardly seems discriminatory. Many events at many venues do these kinds of things all the time.
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