Klarinet Archive - Posting 000083.txt from 1998/01

From: "maybe Starr,maybe John" <starrs@-----.net>
Subj: Re:women not allowed
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 17:32:26 -0500

I am amazed at the unwillingness of anyone on this list to come up to
the plate and respond to the following specific question:

If you would be repulsed by, and hopefully boycott a world class
orchestra( that does not have 'men' or 'women' in the title), that was
found to have "not so hidden" discriminatory practices againt
african-americans, why then, would you be more understanding of an
orchestra that held these policies in regard to women?

I think the 'silence' on the list, in respect to answering THIS
question, rather than going off onto some safer tangent, is because most
people's gut feeling is that, for some illogical reason, they aren't as
repulsed by disrimination against women as they are by discrimination
against african-americans and other racial minorities.

Awaiting all responses,

Starr