regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) (07/19/85)
>Will Martin re daytime hours of retail operations: >These operations insult women -- they are stating, by their hours of >operation, that they expect that evey household has a non-working member >that can come to them during the hours that they are open, and that >person has traditionally been the "housewife". Will, these operators are no more insulting to women than to men. The non-working member could easily be male (though traditionally this hasn't been the case, as you say). >Yet I see no feminist-organized protests, boycots, firebombings, attacks >on the proprietors, etc. I think there should be -- isn't this basic >discrimination? No. Therefore, why should only the feminists protest? Why shouldn't the John Birchers be out there on the streets making noise, just as much? They are also limited by these hours, if single. (And, with the rising consciousness of our society, many of them _are_ single! (-:) I shop where proprietors offer extended hours. I can't say I'm too concerned about the proprietors who don't want my business. I don't think many of them will be in business very long because of the changing demographics. Adrienne Regard