Re: N91 Women mixer on Sunday?

[Eric Parsonage <eric () eparsonage com>]

Matt,
For a variety of cultural, religious and philosophical beliefs not everyone can, or wants to enter a bar. So perhaps 
the experience isn't as universal as you perceive it to be?
Eric


On 30 March 2024 6:18:30 am ACDT, Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 11:17 PM Eric Parsonage <eric () eparsonage com> wrote:
>
> > It's easily fixed by having a mixer at the same time for the other half of
> > the gathering population thus showing all the population gathering matters
> > equally.
>
>
> I believe the mixer for the other half of the gathering population has been
> going on for decades, and is generally referred to as "drinks at the hotel
> lobby bar".
> Just because it isn't called out by name doesn't mean that the male half of
> the population hasn't been meeting and mixing and mingling already for
> years.  ;-P
>
> I'm with Randy Bush on this.  The stakeholders in that event should have
> the say in what happens with it; not the rest of us.
> Those of us old white males need to check our privilege, and recognize that
> we've *been* having "mixers" for decades.
> We don't need to put a stake in the ground and push for our equality; we've
> already been on the beneficiary side of the
> inequality for decades.
>
> Matt