on 7/22/05 5:38 PM, David W. Fenton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 22 Jul 2005 at 16:27, Don Hart wrote:
> 
>> on 7/22/05 2:17 PM, David W. Fenton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>>> And I definitely believe that the "no female tenors" rule is more
>>> justifiable than the "no countertenors singing alto" rule. The
>>> former is, at least, historically appropriate.
>> 
>> So we can sexually discriminate based on a history determined by
>> sexual discrimination?

> Er, it isn't sex discrimination.

What isn't: Catholicism's ban on females singing within it's walls or the
"no female tenors" rule?

>> That might not hold up in a court of law.  ;-)
> 
> Only a court with a really stupid judge who couldn't tell the
> difference between valid qualifications for musical tasks and brain-
> dead stupid fantasies about equality.

David, I just thought it was ironic you would more readily support a
limitation on female singers because of a history that started out limiting
female singers.  DH

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