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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (76655)	10/6/2003 4:44:56 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Careful how you use the term "de facto" discrimination. It is used legally to mean something different- used to distinguish what simply occurs in a population, from de jure discrimination. For example, whites living in the suburbs, and blacks living in the cities would be considered de facto segregation- if one was looking at schools. No one mandated the segregation it just "happened" (now I think there is more than a little sophistry in that, but that's the way it is).

To: Lane3 who wrote (76655)	10/6/2003 4:50:21 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 82486

"The consensus seems to be that as long as Mojo keeps his head down, he shouldn't be regulated or officially. But the minute he pops his head up, someone is going to sue him and he will lose." Maybe, maybe not, we can only speculate and I disagree with you. I do not think the female doctors, growing in numbers, who do not take male patients, will be challenged soon with a law suit. Our culture is changing in this way. There is a growing awareness that some types of intimate contact is legitimately violating the comfort level of a large sector of the population. IMO, We are not ready to deal with this overtly as a culture. We know that we need to take a deeper look at the 40 year old discrimination rhetoric as our demographics become browner and more equitably represented by gender. Especially, in the area of things that are usually personal and private, our awareness is changing regarding what is safe and appropriate.... I know you disagree, when you were a young girl you and your activist friends figured the perfect system out...seems like I heard your parent's generation saying that too...They were right, computers are from the devil...stay away from them...