[lit-ideas] Re: Keeping up with the Germans

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:09:32 EST

Not to be over-simplifying things, but I wonder how much hetero and homo  
sexuality inclinations play a part in this?  The role of increased  acceptance 
of 
gender-orientation cannot be irrelevant to this topic, I wouldn't  think.
 
Julie Krueger
Grammar Girl fix that last sentence for me so I can leave for  work....

========Original Message========     Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Keeping up with 
the Germans  Date: 1/25/2007 12:03:23 P.M. Central Standard Time  From: 
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http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=128112007

is  an article about one of the clubs at St. Andrews--they have a very  
complicated system of clubs (three male only, two female only) having  
access to the links--opening its locker room to women while a 
tournament  is hosted.  Not a particularly interesting tale until you 
get to  comment #23, which I paste below:




This is blatant sex  discrimination. Why should the men be obliged to 
change  elsewhere?

There should be no discrimination - everyone should be allowed  to use 
the locker rooms to change be they male or female. If someone does  not 
like this or feels shy, etc. then why don't they make their own  
arrangements for changing elsewhere.

Here in Germany many sports  clubs have communal changing and it does 
not disturb anyone one little bit.  The people are adult and are there 
to play their sport and not to ogle the  bodies of others. It works fine 
here so why are we in the UK so  prudish?



Does anyone know of anywhere else in the world where  changing rooms are 
unisex?

David Ritchie,
Portland,  Oregon


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