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 <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: >On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 11:17 PM Eric Parsonage <e...@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
