Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1)

Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by imgabe on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:46PM (#7097770)

Again, there are two different meanings of the word discriminate. Having different bathrooms is discriminating between the genders. Treating them differently. Having bathrooms for one gender and not the other would be discriminating against that gender.

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Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by rimantas on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:51PM (#7097804)

No, there are two word, discrimination and segregation. Men having a bathroom and women not (or vice versa) would be discrimination: one have bathroom, other don't. In having separate bathrooms men have a bathroom and women have a bathroom, no discrimination there.

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Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by imgabe on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:15PM (#7097996)

No, this not even something we have to argue about. Simply look up the definition of the word:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discrimination

This conference is about the first definition, not the third.

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Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:52PM (#7097816)

Segregation on an axis requires discrimination on the same axis (if you don't make distinctions, you can't separate.)

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Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by rimantas on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:57PM (#7097863)

Treating differently by "distinctions" is discrimination, not just making them. Otherwise the whole concept of gender is discriminatory.

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Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:45PM (#7098216)

> Treating differently by "distinctions" is discrimination, not just making them.

Segregation is treating people differently by the axis on which segregation occurs.

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