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Originally Posted by Nedusa
Not sure your comparison with Masonic lodges highlights the issue in this thread. what is under attack here is the changing of well established normal routines eg when people attend lectures regardless of the subject or speaker, people sit wherever that is to say they are not compelled to suddenly undergo a gender segregation becuase it suits the whim or desire of the speaker.
This is the issue at hand when did we suddenly start allowing ourselves to be dictated to, and ask to accept new patterns of behaviour on the say so of someone who clearly believes that his way is the correct way.
It is not..........and we should resist such requests regardless of the academic consequences....!!!!
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Ahh I see - so gender segregation is OK so long as it's
British gender segregation, not a foreign invasion of murky alien gender segregators. This is pretty much what I suspected. This is not an issue of gender equality, but a cultural one.
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