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Re:Facebook Still Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users ... by cortesoft on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @04:35PM (#15751818)
Are those women going to live in your feminine hygiene product? If not, I am not sure how housing law is applicable to your advertisement?
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Re:Facebook Still Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users ... by Spivak on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @04:38PM (#15751844)
Because it's explaining why the ads aren't in violation of the rule and the intuition for why this situation isn't covered.
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Re:Facebook Still Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users ... by cortesoft on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @04:43PM (#15751885)
But the rule is only about housing, so I am not sure what the hygiene products have to do with it. Are there special houses that cater only to women? Or to black people? What is different about the house that makes it only appealing to those groups?
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Re:Facebook Still Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users ... by paulddraper on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @11:33PM (#15754263)
I assume so.

I can only speculate why, but communities tend to coalesce around common culture/race, and perpetuate that selection. Ala "Little China".

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