Female-First Bar Policies
July 30th, 2006 at 9:22 am by David FarrarI can’t say I have a problem with bars that give priority to letting females in, if there are too many guys there. Likewise no problem if there are female-only bars or even male-only bars.
Most of all I think it is a decision for the bar owners, and not something we need the Human Rights Commission policing.
July 30th, 2006 at 9:41 am
Kinda agree – but it’s not the HRC’s fault.
National Passed a law that required the HRC to oppose discrimination – including discrimation on the basis of sex perpetrated by bars.
I didn’t vote for National before they passed the Human Rights Act, but suspect you did, DPF – and six years they had to change it
Vote:July 30th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Um, Graeme, I’d just note the Human Rights Amendment Act was passed on a broadly bipartisan basis – and the same applied to the number of members who found pressing business elsewhere.
And to be quite blunt, Graeme, I think any man who wants to put standing on line for a chi chi bar at the level of a major civil rights violation really needs to get out of the house more. At least Spy Bar’s management is being up front – back in the day, I could remember plenty of bars where you’d go out and every male in the party would get their ID checked. If you were a pretty young woman in a micro-mini with big tits and a tight enough t-shirt, forget about it.
Vote:July 30th, 2006 at 11:45 am
I don’t know that anyone has said this is at the level of a major civil rights violation. Just that both this, and major civil rights violations, are, under the present law, illegal, and it is the HRC’s job to guard against both.
DPF suggests this is not something we need the HRC policing, and I largely agree, but that will need a law change.
Vote:July 30th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Um, Graeme, I’d just note the Human Rights Amendment Act was passed on a broadly bipartisan basis – and the same applied to the number of members who found pressing business elsewhere.
And to be quite blunt, Graeme, I think any man who wants to put standing on line for a chi chi bar at the level of a major civil rights violation really needs to get out of the house more. At least Spy Bar’s management is being up front – back in the day, I could remember plenty of bars where you’d go out and every male in the party would get their ID checked. If you were a pretty young woman in a micro-mini with big tits and a tight enough t-shirt, forget about it.
Vote:July 31st, 2006 at 9:10 am
It’s not as bad as that owner of, I think, the Terrace Bar not allowing in Maori and Pacific Islanders because he thought they couldn’t handle their piss and became too violent.
Vote:July 31st, 2006 at 1:04 pm
It’s probably a matter of simple economics. Bars that are filled with females generally attract more males. Ands it’s the guys who spend the most money on the drinks and buy for the girls.
Vote:I play (musician) in bars regularly and you see the same patterns emerge. If the male to female ratio is highly disproportionate, the male punters don’t hang about for too long.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:17 am
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